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Welcome to issue 164 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
Quote of the Week 

“When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.” – Martin Fowler.


Reading List

Interesting Learnings from Outages
A DNS mystery at Adevinta; A failover causing an outage at GitHub; The challenge whether to do a rollback at Reddit; and the difference between public and internal postmortems.

Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Cutovers
The article presents a detailed explanation of Instacart's approach to achieving zero-downtime PostgreSQL cutovers, focusing on their strategies for minimizing disruption and ensuring seamless transitions in two lines.

A developer’s guide to prompt engineering and LLMs
Prompt engineering is the art of communicating with a generative AI model. In this article, we’ll cover how we approach prompt engineering at GitHub, and how you can use it to build your own LLM-based application. 

GPU GUI
A series of hands-on tutorials on how to build a GPU-based GUI library in Odin.

Build Times and Developer Productivity
Even modest improvements to build times are helpful. 

The path to implementing a programming language
This post tries to summarize all the choices and paths you could take to implement your next programming language, more specifically the frontend for your language. 

A tutorial quantum interpreter in 150 lines of Lisp
In this tutorial, we show how to build an interpreter for a general-purpose quantum programming language, capable of executing most kinds of quantum circuits found in literature. It is presented economically, allowing its implementation to take fewer than 150 lines of self-contained Common Lisp code. The language is very simple to extend, making the interpreter ripe for testing different kinds of behavior, such as noise models.

An Introduction to gRPC
Explore gRPC: a scalable, high-performance framework for efficient distributed systems, ideal for microservices and real-time apps.

Data is the Foundation of Language Models
How high-quality data impacts every aspect of the LLM training pipeline.


Watch and Listen

Postman API Test Automation for Beginners
Learn how to use Postman to write and automate API tests.

Using ChatGPT to write Raspberry Pi Python code
Video demonstrates generating, running and editing code to control LEDs and servos connected to GPIO pins, as well as generating Python code to control a Raspberry Pi camera. But the method shown will work for any type of program, subject to the capabilities of ChatGPT.


Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Llama 2
The next generation of Meta's open source large language model. Llama 2 is available for free for research and commercial use.

LazyVim
LazyVim is a Neovim setup powered by lazy.nvim to make it easy to customize and extend your config.

axe-api
The next-generation Rest API Framework.

docker-pgautoupgrade
A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database.

Lets-Plot
An open-source plotting library for statistical data.

pg_embedding
Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm for vector similarity search in PostgreSQL.

dt
duct tape for your unix pipes.
 
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