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Welcome to issue 237 of Programmer Weekly. Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday and took some time off to recharge.

Quote of the Week

"Static typing is to reliable programming what a spelling checker is to a good writer." - Peter Van Roy

Reading List

How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is.

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search
The article presents an in-depth exploration of optimizing static search trees (S+ trees) for high-throughput searching of sorted data, building upon concepts introduced on Algorithmica. It covers various optimization techniques, including SIMD instructions, prefetching, and memory layout improvements, to enhance search performance and throughput. The author implements and benchmarks different approaches, such as binary search, Eytzinger layout, and S-trees, providing detailed comparisons and insights into their performance characteristics across various data sizes and cache levels.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
The article provides a comprehensive review of major events in the database industry for 2024, focusing on license changes, rivalries, and new releases. Key highlights include Redis and Elasticsearch's license controversies, the ongoing competition between Databricks and Snowflake, and the growing popularity of DuckDB in analytics.

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
The article provides a comprehensive guide on writing effective software tutorials, emphasizing the importance of clarity, beginner-friendly language, and practical examples. It outlines 16 key rules, including writing for beginners, promising clear outcomes, showing end results, and making code snippets easily copy-pasteable, to help authors create exceptional and user-friendly software tutorials.

Back to Basics: Why We Chose Long Polling Over WebSockets
Learn how we implemented real-time updates using Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL with HTTP long polling. A practical guide to building scalable real-time systems without WebSockets.

World’s First MIDI Shellcode
I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD. This blog post is about my journey with this reverse engineering project.

Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack
Slack implemented automated accessibility testing using Axe integrated into their Playwright framework, complementing their existing accessibility strategy. The initiative aimed to catch violations early in development, streamline the testing process for developers, and enhance overall accessibility coverage across Slack's products.

Watch and Listen

GenAI Essentials – Full Course for Beginners
his comprehensive course covers the complete generative AI development lifecycle - from fundamental concepts through practical implementation, including prompt engineering, development tools, deployment, optimization, and advanced topics like RAGs and AI agents.

Testing TVs At Scale With Elixir
Dave Lucia of TVLab's is developing systems for large-scale television software testing, combining various techniques including cameras, real-time video processing, and Erlang & Elixir. The project addresses the challenges of integration testing in a mixed software-hardware environment, using a coordinated set of solutions managed by the BEAM to test multiple televisions on demand.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Zasper
Supercharged IDE for Data Science.

LogLayer
A unified logger that routes logs to various logging libraries and cloud providers while providing a fluent API for specifying log messages, metadata and errors.

chasm
Easy to use, extremely fast Runtime Assembler.

gsh
A modern, POSIX-compatible, generative shell.

Bunster
Compile shell scripts to machine code.

pglocklogger
Create a log of blocked processes in PostgreSQL.

efficient-recorder
Attempt to create an Open Source Privacy Focused Rewind.ai Alternative for data capture.

Broccoli
A robust message queue system for Rust applications, designed as a Rust alternative to Celery.

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