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Welcome to issue 88 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Writing software as if we are the only person that ever has to comprehend it is one of the biggest mistakes and false assumptions that can be made." - Karolina Szczur

News

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's much more to the story. The developer of these libraries intentionally introduced an infinite loop that bricked thousands of projects that depend on 'colors' and 'faker.'

DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
In Q4, we observed a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks. The Manufacturing industry was the most targeted alongside a 5,800% increase in SNMP-based DDoS attacks and massive campaigns against VoIP providers around the world

Reading List

Why Engineers Should Invest in Decision-Making Skills Early
To make more successful technical calls and advance careers, engineers actually need to develop better strategic decision-making skills — not just technical execution skills. In fact, an over-reliance on technical execution skills early in a career leads to untapped impact and stalled growth opportunities down the road.

Real-time machine learning: challenges and solutions
In the last year, I’ve talked to ~30 companies in different industries about their challenges with real-time machine learning. I’ve also worked with quite a few to find the solutions. This post outlines the solutions for (1) online prediction and (2) continual learning, with step-by-step use cases, considerations, and technologies required for each level.

Electric Capital Developer Report (2021)
A report on the developer ecosystem for Web3 after fingerprinting nearly 500K code repositories and 160 million code commits.

Know how your org works (or how to become a more effective engineer)
This post aims to lay out some of the problems engineers might often encounter and some food for thought on how to be more effective working within the limitations and constraints of organizations.

Designing WhatsApp
Learn how to design an instant messenger platform such as WhatsApp or Signal which users can utilize to send messages to each other. An essential aspect of the application is that the chat messages won't be permanently stored in the application.

How We Saved 70K Cores Across 30 Mission-Critical Services (Large-Scale, Semi-Automated Go GC Tuning @Uber)
As part of Uber engineering’s wide efforts to reach profitability, recently our team was focused on reducing the cost of computing capacity by improving efficiency. Some of the most impactful work was around GOGC optimization. In this post, we share our experience with a highly effective, low-risk, large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning mechanism.

How to deal with tech debt at the scale of super app
Engineering strategy in a big mobile application with an evolutionary architecture and SRE.

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
This article aims to take you through the journey of creating a Game Boy emulator in OCaml.

The Case of the Recursive Resolvers
What Happened During Slack’s DNSSEC Rollout

Watch and Listen

React Course - Beginner's Tutorial for React JavaScript Library
Learn React by building eight real-world projects and solving 140+ coding challenges.

Making Agile work for data science
Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. We discuss an approach to your tech stack that can bring them together.

Books

Learning Patterns
A free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

threeboard
A fully-functional open source and open hardware mechanical USB computer keyboard with only three keys!

JiraCLI
Feature-rich Interactive Jira Command Line.

Browsix
Bringing Unix to the Browser.

mouseable
A program to reduce wrist pain.

Reshape
An easy-to-use, zero-downtime schema migration tool for Postgres.

Mix
Build Flutter design systems expressively and effortlessly. Mix offers primitive building blocks to help developers and designers create beautiful and consistent UI.

GitAlias
Git alias commands for faster easier version control.

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