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Welcome to issue 69 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix." - Rob Pike

News

Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service.

38 million records exposed by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM
Low-code platform comes with high expectations that folks understand security.

Windows 10’s security is easily thwarted just by plugging in a Razer peripheral
Razer is working on a fix ASAP, but how many other devices can bypass security controls in a similar manner?

Pi calculated to '62.8 trillion digits' with a pair of 32-core AMD Epyc chips, 1TB RAM, 510TB disk space
Swiss uni challenges world record after 108 days and 9 hours of divisive effort.

Reading List

Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location
The vulnerability in this post is real. The story and characters are obviously not.

An Opinionated Guide to xargs
This post has everything you need to know about xargs, an essential tool for shell programming.

Unlimited throughput: how to increase auto-merge performance
In this article, the author tells you how they implemented automatic Git branch merging in the past and how they then increased the auto-merge performance and avoided compromising existing high-reliability standards.

Patterns in confusing explanations
This post lists 12 patterns that make explanations hard to understand. For each pattern the author also explains what she like to do instead to avoid the issue.

What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code
The aim of this tutorial is to give you a brief overview of the features of modern hardware that you must understand in order to write fast code. It will be a distillation of what have learned the last few years.

B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
B-Trees are not boring, after all.

How writing can advance your career as a developer
In their ﬁrst few years on the job, engineers spend roughly 30% of their workday writing, while engineers in middle management write for 50% to 70% of their day; those in senior management reportedly spend over 70% and as much as 95% of their day writing.

Reverse Engineering The Stream Deck
Figuring out how the Stream Deck ticks, and how I can make it do what I want.

Wildcard LetsEncrypt certificates with Traefik and Cloudflare
Re-use the same wildcard TLS certificate for multiple containers running behind traefik.

monday.com’s Multi-Regional Architecture: A Deep Dive
Building a global SaaS platform requires lots of preparation, deep evaluation of your request routes and a truckload of R&D cooperation. Here's how we did it

Rust SSH
Learning Rust by building a CLI tool.

Real-world String Comparison
How to handle Unicode sequences correctly.

Watch and Listen

Android Programming Course
Create an Android app with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose UI. Learn about Graph data structures and algorithms by building a Sudoku app.

Big O notation is simpler than you might think
Big O notation is a very popular topic, in contexts such as algorithms and P vs NP. This video attempts to explain big O notation using only basic arithmetic, so that these other topics can be enjoyed by everyone!

Passwords are dead! Long live the new authentication flows.
Magic links get you in the door safer than passwords.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Kubescape
Kubescape is the first tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely as defined in Kubernetes Hardening Guidance by to NSA and CISA Tests are configured with YAML files, making this tool easy to update as test specifications evolve.

IceFireDB
Distributed disk storage database based on Raft and Redis protocol.

act
Run your GitHub Actions locally.

SQLModel
SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.

bcal
Bits, bytes and address calculator.

WinFsp
WinFsp is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.

FilesRemote
An SSH file manager that lets you edit files like they are local.

pgtt
pgtt is a time traveling tool for PostgreSQL to help speedup development and testing of various applications by enabling the user to easily travel between points in time

Upcoming Events

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