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Welcome to issue 162 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." - Alan Perlis

Reading List

Event-driven architecture best practices for databases and files
Event-driven architectures should have largely replaced poll-based workflows and batch ETLs. Here are the common patterns (and anti-patterns) I have observed for event-driven ingestion of data from both application databases and file systems.

Moneyball for Software Teams
An Imperfect Heuristic for Quantifying Dev Performance.

Building Boba AI
Some lessons and patterns learnt in building an LLM-powered generative application.

Architecture of an early stage SAAS
Design principles, tradeoffs and tricks used to build, deploy and run Feelback, an API-centric SAAS.

CSS: The Good Parts
Journey through the past 30 years as CSS has changed to accommodate powerful web layouts and take a peek at the future of styling the web.

Hunting for Nginx Alias Traversals in the wild
Nginx, a versatile web server pivotal to numerous internet infrastructures, has held a dominant market share since its inception in 2004, with widespread adoption across websites and Docker containers. This article delves into the intricacies of Nginx, focusing on the location and alias directives that are central to how Nginx.

Joins 13 Ways
Relational (inner) joins are really common in the world of databases, and one weird thing about them is that it seems like everyone has a different idea of what they are. This post has aggregated a bunch of different definitions, ways of thinking about them, and ways of implementing them that will hopefully be interesting.

3 things that surprised me while running SQLite in production
I've been using SQLite in several production projects for six months, and I've encountered some surprising aspects.

Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks
You might think you know all the tricks when it comes to browser DevTools, but did you know that there are dozens of panels and hundreds of features waiting to supercharge your debugging workflow? Whatever your debugging use case is, there’s probably a tool that’s right for the job. Let’s discover the most popular DevTools tips that can boost your productivity.

Racket: The Lisp for the modern day
You should give it a try!

Building Robust and Secure GraphQL Servers with Rust
In this post, we will explore how to use Rust to build secure and robust GraphQL servers.

Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
The Zig programming language has garnered considerable attention as a new systems programming language, positioning itself as the better C. But how does Zig achieve this? In this blog post, our aim is to examine some of the issues associated with C and explore how Zig intends to address them.

Watch and Listen

How NASA writes space-proof code
This video discusses some of the coding practices that NASA uses to ensure that its code is reliable and safe.

Deploy Infrastructure to Azure with Terraform
In this tutorial, I'll guide you through the process of deploying a website to Microsoft Azure using Terraform, a powerful infrastructure-as-code tool. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this step-by-step course will equip you with the essential skills to seamlessly deploy your website with confidence

Books

Automate Your Network
The modern approach to enterprise network management.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

gpt-migrate
Easily migrate your codebase from one framework or language to another.

Eruda
Console for mobile browsers.

wundergraph
WunderGraph is a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.

jql
A JSON Query Language CLI tool.

TypeID
A type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs.

BlockSuite
BlockSuite is the open-source collaborative editor project behind AFFiNE.

lnav
An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale. It is a terminal application that can understand your log files and make it easy for you to find problems with little to no setup.

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