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Welcome to issue 95 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.

Quote of the Week

"Features, quality, time: pick two." - Anonymous

News

Intel Ramps Up Linux Investment By Acquiring Linutronix
Intel has acquired Linutronix, the German-based Linux consulting firm focused on embedded Linux and real-time computing. This is a great move by Intel for furthering their contributions to the Linux / open-source world.

AWS launches Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool will help you to meet your own sustainability goals, and is available to all AWS customers at no cost.

DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks of unthinkable size
100,000 misconfigured servers are creating a new way to knock sites offline.

Reading List

Lambda Calculus in 397 Bytes
The Lambda Calculus is a programming language with a single keyword. It's the Turing tarpit discovered by Turing's doctoral advisor. This blog post introduces a brand new 397 byte implementation of binary lambda calculus as an x86-64 Linux ELF executable.

The Four Innovation Phases of Netflix’s Trillions Scale Real-time Data Infrastructure
The post will share the four phases of Real-time Data Infrastructure’s iterative journey in Netflix (2015-2021). For each phase, we will go over the evolving business motivations, the team’s unique challenges, the strategy bets, and the use case patterns we discovered along the way.

Security for package maintainers
Implementing security practices like the ones described in this article takes time, energy, and sometimes money! If your organization consumes open source software but doesn't care about the security practices of dependencies and maintainers you are gambling your organizations' security.

Evolving your RESTful APIs, a step-by-step approach
Designing an intuitive, user-friendly RESTful API is a tough job. It might already be a massive task if it’s your first attempt. Planning for the lifecycle management of your API is likely to be an afterthought. But it’s possible anyway: this post proposes a no-nonsense approach to evolving your APIs, even if it was not planned.

New CSS Features In 2022
2022 is shaping up to be a pretty great year for CSS, with a plethora of new features on the horizon. Some are already starting to land in browsers, others are likely to gain widespread browser support in 2022, while for one or two the process may be a little longer. In this article we’ll take a look at a few of them.

Rust Compiler Ambitions for 2022
Some people have been wondering about what the Rust Compiler Team has planned for 2022. This note is to let you all know what activities the team plans to focus on this year.

Avoiding the Top 10 NGINX Configuration Mistakes
When we help NGINX users who are having problems, we often see the same configuration mistakes we’ve seen over and over in other users’ configurations – sometimes even in configurations written by fellow NGINX engineers! In this post, we look at 10 of the most common errors, explaining what’s wrong and how to fix it.

What you give up when moving into engineering management
Moving into a management role may be a rewarding step in your career, but you should know about the things you're leaving behind.

css for web3
Tips and tricks for that Dark Futuristic Web3 Look.

Triaging A Malicious Docker Container
Malicious Docker containers are a relatively new form of attack, taking advantage of an exposed Docker API or vulnerable host to do their evil plotting. In this article, we will walk through the triage of a malicious image containing a previously undetected-in-VirusTotal (at the time of this writing) piece of malware!

The 10 REST Commandments

Building a Marketing Engineering Platform using Next.js, Cloudflare, and Contentful

Can you get pwned with CSS?

Watch and Listen

Automate your Multi-Stage Continuous Delivery and Operations
Keptn is a cloud-native application life-cycle orchestrator. It automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications. In this video, you will get a detailed overview of the new and powerful automation tool.

DevOps with GitLab CI Course - Build Pipelines and Deploy to AWS
This course will teach you how to use GitLab CI to create CI/CD pipelines for building and deploying software to AWS.

Jessica Kerr on Observability and Honeycomb's Use of AWS Lambda for Retriever
Charles Humble talks to Jessica Kerr about Honeycomb's architecture and use of Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, as part of their custom column database system called Retriever. They also explore key differences between Retriever and Facebook’s Scuba, and how Honeycomb differs from traditional APM tools.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

OrioleDB
Building a modern cloud-native storage engine (... and solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems).

Grist
Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet. It combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data and make you more productive.

Zellij
A terminal workspace with batteries included.

KubeSphere
The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management.

Keptn
Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications.

Fomir
A Schema-First Form Library.

Monokle
Monokle is your K8s best friend for creating, validating, debugging and managing manifests!

rui
Experimental Rust UI library.

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