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Welcome to issue 144 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"It’s harder to read code than to write it.” — Joel Spolsky

Reading List

Dynamic AutoScaling of GitHub Runners
In this article we explain our transition to GitHub Actions for our CI/CD needs at Dgraph Labs Inc. As a part of this effort we have built (in-house) & implemented a new architecture for “Dynamic AutoScaling of GitHub Runners” to power this setup.

Retrospectives Antipatterns
If you use retrospectives, or any kind of meeting where people are supposed to discuss and learn from their discussions, you will have experienced less efficient sessions from time to time. There is no wonder in that, and it happens to most people. This article describes and offers solutions for three of these unfortunate situations: skipping generating insights, getting lost in things you can't change, and being dominated by a loudmouth.

How DoorDash Designed a Successful Write-Heavy Scalable and Reliable Inventory Platform
This article outlines the challenges we faced while building the inventory platform and how we solved them after multiple iterations of experimentation and analysis.

How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb
SRE Fred Hebert shares how we manage incident response at Honeycomb in 5 sections; a high-level snapshot of what matters to us during fires.

The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt
Let’s talk about technical debt. Let’s talk about practical usable approaches for actually paying it down on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. Let’s talk about what debt needs to be fixed now versus what can wait for better planning.

Writing Javascript without a build system

We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit

When Rust hurts

Watch and Listen

Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Weak Isolation and Snapshotting
Ever wonder how database backups work if new data is coming in while the backup is running? Hang with us while we talk about that.

React.js: The Documentary
React.js: The Documentary brings you the full story behind the early days of React, focusing on the dedicated group of developers who helped bring it to the world stage. This story is told by an all-star cast of developers like Tom Occhino, Christopher Chedeau, Pete Hunt, Sebastian Markbåge, Dan Abramov, and many more.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

papers-ux-ai-programming
List of research papers of research papers investigating the user experience of AI-powered programming assistants (e.g., Copilot).

JXC
JXC is a structured data language similar to JSON, but with a focus on being expressive, extensible, and human-friendly.

concoct
An experimental cross-platform UI framework in rust.

Reverie
An ergonomic and safe syscall interception framework for Linux.

Unovis
Unovis is a modular data visualization framework for React, Angular, Svelte, and vanilla TypeScript or JavaScript.

tbls
tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database.

iasql
Infrastructure as data in PostgreSQL.

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