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Welcome to issue 53 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
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Quote of the Week
"Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small." - Richard Pattis
News
Google and UC Berkeley Propose Green Strategies for Large Neural Network Training
A research team from Google and the University of California, Berkeley calculates the energy use and carbon footprint of large-scale models T5, Meena, GShard, Switch Transformer and GPT-3, and identifies methods and publication guidelines that could help reduce their CO2e footprint.
Facebook Joins the Rust Foundation
Facebook has embraced Rust since 2016 and utilizes it in all aspects of development, from source control to compilers. Alongside the other fellow foundation members, Facebook is committed to sustaining and growing the Rust open source ecosystem and community.
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered.
New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix
A new transient execution variant is the first exploit micro-ops caches.
Reading List
How Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/month
Here’s a riddle. My web app keeps all of its data in a SQL database. I can spontaneously tear it down, deploy the code to a different hosting platform, and the app will still serve all the same data. Running my app in production costs $0.03 per month. How is this possible? Read the post to learn the details.
How I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit
A story of how I found a vulnerability and developed an exploit to break out of the App Engine sandbox and get arbitrary code execution on a Google server.
DoorDash Migrating From Python to Kotlin for Our Backend Services
To support our migration to microservices we needed to find a new tech stack. Learn how we compared all the options and chose Kotlin.
Amortizing Software Rewrites: An Evolutionary Approach
How to rewrite legacy applications or split monoliths into microservices without slowing down on delivering features or introducing bugs in your system.
Scaling monorepo maintenance
Today, GitHub can repack even the largest repositories we host in a fraction of the time it used to take. Here's how we did it, and why.
Search: Query Matching via Lexical, Graph, and Embedding Methods
An overview and comparison of the various approaches, with examples from industry search systems.
Why We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure
This post takes a peek under the hood of Replit's hosting infrastructure and walk through how they made hosting work in a multi-cluster world.
Geometric foundations of Deep Learning
Geometric Deep Learning is an attempt for geometric unification of a broad class of ML problems from the perspectives of symmetry and invariance. These principles not only underlie the breakthrough performance of convolutional neural networks and the recent success of graph neural networks but also provide a principled way to construct new types of problem-specific inductive biases.
What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing
The evolution that serverless computing represents, the economic forces that shape it, why it could fail, and how it might fulfill its potential.
Load Balancing and Auto Scaling with Open Source HAProxy
When your application has more demand than can be handled by a single machine or when you want to safe-guard against failure or a single server, you might want to load balance it. There are different patterns to load balance an application, e.g. you can offload the heavy processing through a message queue, or you can redirect traffic directly to different servers. In this tutorial we will look at the latter
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
Classical Reasoning and Debugging
Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
Watch and Listen
CI/CD with JetBrains TeamCity
In this video you will learn about JetBrains TeamCity - a modern and powerful CI/CD platform. First you will see some of the key features and benefits of using TeamCity. We will also see the architecture of how TeamCity actually works and finally I will show you how to setup and configure a Continuous Integration Pipeline in under 15 minutes!
Building a Business Around Popular Open Source Tools for Kubernetes
In this episode, we have on Richard Li, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambassador Labs, which builds popular open source tools for Kubernetes. Richard explains to us the story behind starting his company and the different projects that were built out of that, including Telepresence and Ambassador API Gateway.
Advancing Excel as a programming language
An inside account of the journey Excel has taken as a programming language, including the expansion of data types that has unlocked greater functionality and the release of the LAMBDA function, which makes the Excel formula language Turing-complete.
How technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
A presentation on how companies tend to lose their technological edge and devolve into outsourcing hubs. It touches on why this happens, and how it also applies to whole continents. Finally there are a few suggestions what to do about this.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
Pixie
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability.
Readme.so
The easiest way to create a readme quickly and customize all the sections you need for your project's readme.
bob_cassette_rewinder
How I defeated Bob Dishwasher's detergent cartridge DRM to refill it at 1/60 of the cost of buying new.
Jaws
Jaws is an invisible programming language! Inject invisible code into other languages and files! Created for security research.
S3 Email
A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES.
turbolift
A simple tool to help apply changes across many GitHub repositories simultaneously.
Pikt
Image-based poetic programming language.
Wave
A Software as a Service Starter Kit, designed to help you build the SAAS of your dreams.
git-split-diffs
GitHub style split diffs with syntax highlighting in your terminal.
usql
Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
refined-github
Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features.
ShellCheck
A static analysis tool for shell scripts.
Grafar
Reactive multidimensional math & data visualization for the web.
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