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Welcome to issue 219 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Be careful to preserve the orthogonality of your system as you introduce third-party toolkits and libraries. Choose your technologies wisely." - Andy Hunt

Reading List

Postgres as a search engine
Build a hybrid search engine with semantic, full-text, and fuzzy search – all within Postgres.

Learn SQLPage
This tutorial demonstrates how to use the SQLPage framework to create a variety of web applications. You'll learn to build several dozen full-stack apps, using nothing but SQL code, in just a few hours. No previous experience is required.

How to Hire a CTO
The article provides a comprehensive guide on hiring a CTO for startups, covering the importance of the role, criteria for selection, and the hiring process. It emphasizes the long-term impact of a CTO on company culture and product development, and offers detailed advice on structuring the interview process, using executive recruiting firms, and conducting reference checks.

Real-time mouse pointers
Canva's journey to implement and support real-time mouse pointers.

What every SRE should know about GNU/Linux resolvers and Dual-Stack applications
A comprehensive series on GNU/Linux resolvers and dual-stack applications, covering topics from the history of resolvers to modern implementation challenges in various programming languages. It aims to provide SREs with in-depth knowledge about name resolution processes, focusing on the complexities of dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments and their impact on application performance and reliability.

Watch and Listen

Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
James Munro discusses ArcticDB and the practicalities of building a performant time-series datastore and why transactions, particularly the Isolation in ACID is just not worth it.

Gemini AI MultiModal Model Course
Learn how to use Google Gemini AI MultiModal Model in this course for beginners. You will learn to build an app with the Gemini API that can SEE images and answer questions about them.

Multiplatform Maps Built As Layers on Rust (with Ian Wagner)
Mapping is complex, involving the integration of map tiles, routing, GPS data, and more across various platforms like iOS and Android. Despite being dominated by large companies, open-source solutions like the Ferrostar map library, built on a Rust core with UI shells in Kotlin, Swift, WASM, and TypeScript, show that it's possible. The discussion with lead developer Ian Wagner explores Ferrostar's architecture and provides tips for those building maps or integrating Rust with other languages.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

mpv
A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.

cleed
Simple feed reader for the command line.

Bark
Text-Prompted Generative Audio Model.

Srcbook
TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping.

RAG_Techniques
This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

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