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🍔🧠 Devs That Sleep Well at Night Use This 1 Thing

PLUS: OpenAI's Strawberry 🍓, Distributed Scheduler Design 📚, Concurrency Made Simple 🤓

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Alex Zajac
September 16th, 2024

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🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

  • Use RxJS to simplify complex asynchronous data flows in your applications.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
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"Do or do not. There is no try."

Yoda

Mindset: Absolute commitment to outcomes, not effort.

Example: Spanx - Sara Blakely's determination to "do" led her to create a multi-million dollar business.

Action: Identify one task you've been "trying" to do and commit to "doing" it today.

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

LUC #62: CI/CD Demystified — Build, Test, Deploy, Repeat

Plus, database caching strategies explained, what is MQTT and how does it work, and how do we design effective and safe APIs?

How GitHub improves Reliability and Availability

We'll talk about open source tools like Scientist and Flipper and go through a real world case study at GitHub. Plus, how to set engineering org values and more.

Design a Distributed Job Scheduler - System Design

A distributed job scheduler is a system designed to manage, schedule, and execute tasks (referred to as "jobs") across multiple computers or nodes in a distributed network.

Atomic Habits 📙

A review + summary of one of the most popular personal growth book of all times.

How to make better decisions with Second-Order Thinking

and my favorite mental models for engineers and managers.

Become the engineer everyone wants to work with

Such engineers have a LOT of opportunities and get promoted first!

Unlearning Leetcode

Simple Is Better Than Complex

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (searching high and low)
The next-Gen search engine for developers

ARTICLE (data at warp speed)
Data curation at lightspeed

ARTICLE (game over confessions)
Famous Last Words of the Game Developer....

ARTICLE (rate-limiting party)
Exponential rate limiting

GITHUB REPO (tool kit for cool kids)
Collection of handy online tools for developers

ARTICLE (webp-a-da-webpage)
WebP: The WebPage compression format

ARTICLE (beyond the b-tree)
B-trees and database indexes

ARTICLE (sqlite is super cool)
SQLite is not a toy database

ARTICLE (openai thinks deep thoughts)
Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models

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

Brief: OpenAI reveals its O1 AI model, highlighting its capacity to deeply analyze and generate thoughts, pushing the boundaries of AI reasoning and creativity.

Brief: Google introduces NotebookLM, an innovative AI tool designed to create audio overviews of documents, enhancing accessibility and comprehension for its users.

Brief: Apple introduces the iPhone 16 and Apple Watch 10, showcasing exciting features, design updates, and environmental initiatives aimed at enhancing user experience.

Brief: A test launch of Europe's Hyperloop vehicles marks a pivotal advancement in the development of high-speed travel, promising to revolutionize transportation options across the continent.

Brief: Huawei launches the Mate XT, a groundbreaking tri-fold smartphone with a sleek design, aiming to reshape the foldable phone market and enhance user experience.

Brief: Tesla introduces a groundbreaking electric vehicle with a removable battery, advancing sustainability and innovation in the automotive industry.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

Coding Challenge #73 - Text Editor

Build your own micro version of vim.

This week’s tip:

The RxJS (Reactive Extensions for JavaScript) library provides a powerful set of operators and utilities for handling asynchronous data streams, often referred to as "observables." RxJS can be particularly useful in complex front-end applications that deal with multiple, potentially interacting asynchronous sources of data.

Wen?

  1. Handling Asynchronous Data Streams: RxJS shines when you need to manage and manipulate complex asynchronous data sources, such as user interactions, API calls, or real-time updates.

  2. Composing Asynchronous Operations: RxJS provides a rich set of operators that allow you to combine, filter, and transform asynchronous data streams, enabling you to build highly expressive and composable asynchronous logic.

  3. Complex Event Handling: RxJS is particularly useful for handling complex event-driven scenarios, where you need to coordinate and react to multiple, potentially interacting, asynchronous events.

Burp-A-Laugh
The most important meal of your day

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