🍔🧠 Behind Reddit's 100K Reads/Sec Database Design

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

• How Reddit built a metadata store for 100k reads/sec.

• Unpacking containerization to revolutionize development processes.

• Generate unique IDs in distributed systems effortlessly.

• The best AI agent backed code-editor in town

• Effective ways to learn APIs and integrate them smoothly.

• Explore 5 non-LLM software trends reshaping the tech landscape.

• Join 3.5 million engineers/CTOs keeping up to date in 5 mins a week

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• OpenAI's AI Agent may launch in January with groundbreaking capabilities.

• LG's new stretchable display expands by 50% for innovative applications.

• Amazon's upcoming AI chips could reduce dependence on Nvidia and redefine AI infrastructure.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Utilize Dependency Injection in Angular to enhance testability and flexibility.

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

Mindset: Your decisions, not your circumstances, shape your life and future.

Example: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings pivoted the company from DVD rentals to streaming, defying industry predictions.

Action: Identify one decision you can make today to improve your circumstances.

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The Rabbit Hole
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ESSENTIAL (LinkedIn giggles)
How LinkedIn uses Event Driven Architectures to Scale

GITHUB REPO (ai-chatbot-a-go-go)
A full-featured, hackable Next.js AI chatbot built by Vercel

ARTICLE (need more JavaScript magic?)
Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?

ARTICLE (cloudy with a chance of no containers)
Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their Workers platform infrastructure?

ARTICLE (Bazel-boom at Airbnb)
Adopting Bazel for Web at Scale

ARTICLE (Netflix bug-be-gone)
How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix

ARTICLE (counting on Netflix tech)
Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction

ARTICLE (distraction-dodging tricks)
Strategy against distractions as a software engineer working in an open-floor office

ARTICLE (yikes, why the wait?)
Why your projects take forever

ARTICLE (AI pals or coding fools?)
Are AI Assistants Making Us Worse Programmers?

ARTICLE (Postgres secrets unveiled)
What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

ARTICLE (Python emptiness explained)
The Pythonic Emptiness

ARTICLE (WebGPU: the 1TFLOP challenge)
Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1TFLOP+ Performance

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

🤖 OpenAI Set to Unveil AI Agent Tool by January (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI is nearing the launch of "Operator," an AI agent tool expected in January, aimed at automating tasks directly on users' computers, preparing to compete with similar offerings from Anthropic and Google.

🖥️ LG Unveils Stretchable Display That Expands by 50% (2 min)

Brief: LG reveals a versatile 12-inch stretchable display that can expand to 18 inches, promising enhanced durability and potential applications in fashion and mobility.

⚙️ Amazon to Launch Proprietary AI Chips, Cutting Ties with Nvidia (3 min)

Brief: Amazon's new Trainium 2 AI chips, set to debut in December, aim to reduce dependency on Nvidia while enhancing efficiency and cutting costs in its AWS data centers.

🛍️ Amazon Launches "Haul" Discount Storefront to Compete with Temu and Shein (3 min)

Brief: Amazon's new "Haul" storefront features goods under $20, aiming to lure shoppers with low prices and delivery in less than two weeks, competing directly with budget rivals Temu and Shein.

👁️ PanoRadar Gives Robots Superhuman Vision Through Walls and Smoke (3 min)

Brief: Researchers unveil PanoRadar, a revolutionary AI-powered system that enables robots to achieve superhuman vision, allowing them to navigate through obstacles like smoke, walls, and fog by converting radio waves into detailed 3D images.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

Utilizing dependency injection in Angular for improved testability and flexibility:

Wen?

• Unit Testing: Dependency Injection (DI) in Angular makes it easy to mock dependencies, allowing for more isolated and focused unit tests.

• Flexibility and Maintainability: DI enables you to easily switch out implementations of dependencies, such as using a different HTTP client or data service, without modifying the consuming component.

• Separation of Concerns: DI promotes a clean separation of concerns, where components focus on their own responsibilities and delegate the handling of dependencies to the DI system.

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