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Welcome to issue 147 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie

Reading List

How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud
While Ahrefs uses AWS benefits for hosting our frontend in different parts of the world, the vast majority of Ahrefs’ infrastructure iceberg hides in the colocation with owned hardware. Ahrefs wouldn’t be profitable, or even exist, if our products were 100% on AWS.

Lessons Learned Building Products Powered by Generative AI
Though BuzzFeed has been incorporating Generative AI into its products for the last couple of years, the last three months have been exhilarating for anyone who operates in that space. And while we are only scratching the surface of what can be done with Generative AI, we thought it would be useful to share some of the lessons we learned and some of the things we are thinking about for the future.

Failure Mitigation for Microservices: An Intro to Aperture
Learn how centralizing service monitoring and controlling into a single system improves upon individual service level mitigation efforts.

How to Improve Performance in Git: The Complete Guide
Is your Git monorepo getting slower and slower? Have a look at all the performance improvements that you can make to speed up your Git repository.

The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB
In this post, we’ll discuss the many ways to restrict access to a DynamoDB instance at both a framework and implementation level, utilizing patterns and tools such as RBAC, IAM, Terraform, Retool, and Sym. Because different strategies are optimal for different types of organizations, we will discuss what considerations to make when choosing each.

How to Improve React Native Performance
Discover the tools and techniques that can help you improve and maintain the performance of your React Native apps.

How not to design a UI library
This post is a dive into the design of my UI library in my pet C++ game engine, as well as a lot of rants on what didn’t work as well as I’d thought it would.

How we built our multi-platform design system at Booking.com
Building a design system that works is a challenge at any scale. Building a design system for 150+ product teams, used by 200+ designers and 800+ developers, and serving 4 different platforms? That’s a challenge requiring lots of special considerations. In this article, we dig deep into the setup of our multi-platform design system at Booking.com, and how we maintain it through a rigorous development process.

Adventures in REPL implementation
Writing Clojure REPL plugin for Sublime Text.

How Wix manages Schemas for Kafka (and gRPC) used by 2000 microservices
How Wix devs and tools view, serialize, evolve, and sync Kafka event schemas.

Watch and Listen

Create AWS Honeytokens to catch hackers
Learn how to create AWS Honey Tokens that alert you when someone attempts to use them. Honey tokens are API or access keys that are real but harmless and can be used as an early warning system to know when an intruder has made it into your system. In this video, we run through the simple steps to be able. to create your very own AWS Honey Tokens using an open-source project and all your own infrastructure.

Learn React 18 with Redux Toolkit – Full Tutorial for Beginners
Learn how to use React version 18 and Redux Toolkit in this full course for beginners. React is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on components.

Kubernetes Ephemeral (Temporary) Environments Explained
What are ephemeral (temporary) environments (in or out of Kubernetes)? Why are they important? How can you use them? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks? What are the alternatives? What are the tools? In this video, we go through local development environments, remote development environments, and preview or pull request (PR) environments.

Books

PostgreSQL 14 Internals
This book is for those who will not settle for a black-box approach when working with a database. If you are eager to learn, prefer not to take expert advice for granted, and would like to figure out everything yourself, follow along.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

visual-chatgpt
Visual ChatGPT connects ChatGPT and a series of Visual Foundation Models to enable sending and receiving images during chatting.

pgrok
Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding.

PgCat
PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support.

Dalai
The simplest way to run LLaMA on your local machine.

scrollbar
Simple online tool for designing scrollbars.

mapcidr
Small utility program to perform multiple operations for a given subnet/CIDR ranges.

halp
A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools.

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