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Welcome to issue 163 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

“I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.” — Oktal

Reading List

Gossip Protocol
The article discusses the gossip protocol, a decentralized communication algorithm used in distributed systems, explaining its key principles and benefits for achieving scalability and fault tolerance while ensuring data consistency and reliability.

The Git Rebase Handbook
A Definitive Guide to Rebasing.

Regex engine internals as a library
This post discusses the rewrite of the Rust regex crate to enable better internal composition and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. The rewrite also created a new crate, regex-automata, which exposes much of the regex crate internals as their own APIs for others to use.

A slack clone in 5 lines of bash
This post shows how suc(Simple Unix Chat) implements the features. suc stays small by leveraging the consistent and composable primitives offered by modern UNIX implementations

PoisonGPT: How we hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.

Developer essentials: How to search code using grep
grep is a powerful tool for searching code from the terminal. This post will show you how to use grep and why it's an essential developer tool.

Tuning Flink Clusters for Stability and Efficiency
At Pinterest, stream data processing powers a wide range of real-time use cases. Our Flink clusters are multitenant and run jobs that concurrently process more than 20M msgs/sec across 12 clusters. Over the course of 2022 and early 2023, we’ve spent a significant period of time optimizing our Flink runtime environment and cluster configurations, and we’d like to share our learnings with you.

Chronon — A Declarative Feature Engineering Framework
A framework for developing production grade features for machine learning models. The purpose of the post is to provide an overview of core concepts in Chronon.

How we cut BigQuery costs 80% by hunting down costly queries
An in-depth guide to identifying costly users and queries, building interactive dashboards to monitor spend, and optimizing your queries for cost and perf.

Create an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.

Watch and Listen

Learn Terraform with Google Cloud Platform – Infrastructure as Code Course
Learn how to use Terraform and Infrastructure as Code to deploy a website to Google Cloud Platform.

10 DevOps Tools you need to know - The Complete Guide
A short but comprehensive overview of the core DevOps tools that you need to build complete DevOps processes.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

digger
Digger is an open source alternative to Terraform Cloud & Terraform Enterprise. Digger allows you to run Terraform plan/apply in your existing CI/CD pipeline.

Joplin
An open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

gpt-researcher
GPT based autonomous agent that does online comprehensive research on any given topic.

Bespoke
Open Source Personalized Marketing Platform. Combining best parts of Mailchimp, Kalviyo's automation, Substack's newsletter and Typeform for surveys.

LineSelect
A shell utility to interactively select lines from stdin and output them to stdout. This allows you to effectively pause the pipeline to make a manual selection before the pipeline, or other composed command, continues.

IGL
Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) is a cross-platform library that commands the GPU. It provides a single low-level cross-platform interface on top of various graphics APIs (e.g. OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan).

chatgpt.js
A powerful, open source client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT.

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