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Welcome to issue 151 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else." - Melinda Varian

Reading List

Building LLM applications for production
This post discusses the challenges of productionizing large language model (LLM) applications. It covers topics such as prompt engineering, cost and latency, task composability, and promising use cases for LLMs. The post argues that LLMs can be powerful tools for a variety of tasks, but that they require careful engineering to be used effectively in production.

A Journey through Color Space with FFmpeg
For those who want to understand color spaces, transform videos from one color space to another, or read how I almost went crazy working out why my Canva-generated videos looked slightly off, color-wise.

WebGPU Fundamentals
WebGPU Fundamentals is a series of lessons that provides an introduction to the WebGPU API, a new standard for performing graphics and compute tasks on the web. The website covers the basics of WebGPU, including its architecture, programming model, and performance characteristics.

Load Balancing
In this post we're going to focus on the ways that a single load balancer might distribute HTTP requests to a set of servers. We'll start from the bottom and work our way up to modern load balancing algorithms.

The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge
Where does Steve’s passion for developer tools come from? He talked through his career and learnings, and threw in a few stories that hadn’t been previously shared anywhere.

Understanding Large Language Models
A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed.

"Scaling Laws" for AI And Some Implications
How much bigger (and better) can LLMs get in the 2020's?

Real-time Messaging
In this post we’ll describe the architecture that we use at Slack to send real-time messages at this scale. We’ll take a closer look at the services that send the chat messages and various events to these online users in real time. Our core services are written in Java: They are Channel Servers, Gateway Servers, Admin Servers, and Presence Servers.

How RocksDB works
The article explains the fundamental concepts and mechanisms behind RocksDB, a high-performance embedded key-value store. It covers topics such as data structures, memory management, compaction, and concurrency control.

A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.

An example of LLM prompting for programming
Xu Hao uses chain of thought and general knowledge prompting with ChatGPT when writing self-testing code.

Watch and Listen

ChatGPT Course – Use The OpenAI API to Code 5 Projects
Learn how to use the OpenAI API to create five projects, including a ChatGPT clone, a DALL-E Image Creator, and a SQL Generator. This is a dive deep into the world of the OpenAI API, exploring its diverse capabilities and potential applications.

Automate Screenshots with GitHub Actions
Take screenshots on a cron schedule and display them in an Astro app with Playwright and GitHub Actions. We'll walk through writing an automated script to take screenshots of a website, upload images to Cloudinary, display them in an Astro app, and automate the whole thing with GitHub Actions cron scheduling.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

AgentGPT
Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.

dbdev
Database Package Registry for Postgres.

ai-brainstore
A proof-of-concept of a brain for an AI agent.

Electra
Electra is an esolang where you code like an electrician.

Hermes
Extremely Fast Full-Text-Search and Caching Algorithm.

Fleek
Fleek is an all-in-one management system for everything you need to be productive on your computer.

GuardLlama
The Ultimate Open-Source VPN, Ad-blocker and DNS resolver.

supavisor
A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler.

kv.js
Advanced in-memory caching module for JavaScript. For when Redis or Memcached would be an overkill.

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