🍔🧠 1 Server for 1M Connections: Nginx Architecture

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📚 Software Engineering Articles

• Discover how Nginx handles 1 million concurrent connections effortlessly.

• Learn the essentials of an API Gateway and why it matters.

• Is Scrum still relevant? Explore if you should use Scrum in 2024.

• Dive into effective deployment strategies for software updates.

• The reasons behind Leetcode's popularity among developers.

• The best free guide to level up with ChatGPT

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• Ads may be on their way to ChatGPT; find out more.

• Get excited about the Claude Models now being faster and smarter on AWS Trainium2.

• Amazon introduces Nova, redefining cloud performance with intelligence.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Harness the power of memoization in functional programming to optimize repetitive computations.

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Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week

Mindset: This quote reminds us that our future is in our own hands - we have the power to shape our destiny.

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Action: Identify one area of your life you want to improve and make a plan to start taking small steps towards that goal today.

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The Rabbit Hole
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The Weekly Digest
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time

📰 Ads Might Be Coming to ChatGPT — Despite Sam Altman Not Being a Fan (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI is considering an advertising model for ChatGPT, despite CEO Sam Altman's skepticism and intent to remain cautious regarding ad integration.

🚀 Claude 3.5 Haiku Optimized for AWS Trainium2 and Model Distillation (3 min)

Brief: Claude 3.5 Haiku now runs on AWS Trainium2, delivering 60% faster inference speeds and new model distillation capabilities for enhanced performance in Amazon Bedrock.

🚀 Amazon Unveils Nova Foundation Models for AI Workloads (4 min)

Brief: Amazon launches Nova foundation models, offering cutting-edge AI capabilities for generative tasks with enhanced performance, cost-efficiency, and customization for businesses.

🎉 Sam Altman Announces 12 Days of OpenAI Livestreams (1 min)

Brief: Starting tomorrow, OpenAI will host 12 days of livestreams, featuring product launches and demos each weekday, promising exciting updates and innovations.

💰 OpenAI Launches $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscription with Advanced Reasoning (4 min)

Brief: OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly subscription offering unlimited access to advanced models, including the o1 reasoning model, intended for power users engaged in coding and complex problem-solving.

🚀 Bitcoin Surpasses $100K Amid Crypto Rally Accelerated by Trump Support (2 min)

Brief: Bitcoin, buoyed by Trump's crypto endorsement and plans for lenient regulations, reaches $100,000, marking a significant shift in investor confidence and market dynamics.

The Quick Byte
One coding tip because you’re technical after all

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

Memoization is a powerful optimization technique used in functional programming to improve the performance of pure functions that have expensive computations or rely on input data that doesn't change frequently. By caching the results of a function call, memoization can significantly reduce the number of redundant computations, leading to faster execution times.

Wen?

• Repeated Computations: Memoization is particularly useful when you have a function that performs expensive computations and is called multiple times with the same input.

• Data-Intensive Algorithms: In scenarios where your algorithm relies on large datasets that don't change frequently, memoization can significantly improve performance by caching the results of these computations.

• Dynamic Programming: Memoization is a core technique in dynamic programming, where it helps to solve complex problems by breaking them down into smaller, overlapping subproblems and storing the results of these subproblems for reuse.

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