🍔🧠 GitHub Push: What Happens Behind the Scenes

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

• 📚 GitHub decouples push processing, load balancing algorithms visualized, Instagram scales to 2.5 billion users.

• 🗞️ Apple unveils "Intelligence", Tesla's $25k EV, experimental Alzheimer's drug slows progression.

• 👨🏻‍💻 Quick byte: Rust's lifetime system ensures memory safety without garbage collection.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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

Mindset: Doubt stifles progress; belief fuels innovation.

Example: SpaceX's audacious goal of Mars colonization defies conventional aerospace limitations.

Action item: Write down your biggest goal and one small step you can take towards it today.

(Share on Twitter)

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (db design)
How to design the database of Google Calendar

GITHUB REPO (transformers.web)
State-of-the-art Machine Learning for the web

ESSENTIAL (we like cookies)
Demystifying cookies and tokens

ARTICLE (SSO)
The developers’ guide to single sign-on

ESSENTIAL (buiiiild)
How to build anything faster

ARTICLE (Excel-lent?)
Thoughts on the integration of Python in Excel

ARTICLE (mc-notebook?)
Why notebooks are the MacDonalds of code

ARTICLE (scale ML training)
How Meta trains models at scale

ARTICLE (3 laws to rule them all)
The 3 laws of software engineering complexity

ARTICLE (just ship it)
You should ship something every day

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

🍎 Apple Unveils "Apple Intelligence" with Conversational Siri and AI Features (3 min)

Brief: Apple introduces "Apple Intelligence" at WWDC 2024, including a more conversational Siri, custom Genmoji, GPT-4o access, actions between apps, and enhanced privacy measures.

🔍 Elon Musk Drops Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Co-Founders (3 min)

Brief: Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in California state court, following criticism of OpenAI's Apple partnership.

🤔 OpenAI considers for-profit status (3 min)

Brief: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company is considering becoming a for-profit benefit corporation, potentially facilitating an IPO and granting Altman a stake in the company.

💬 X Rolling Out Private Likes - Elon Musk's Stance (3 min)

Brief: X is implementing private likes to protect users from public scrutiny, a move endorsed by owner Elon Musk amid a social media landscape shift away from like counts.

🧠 Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Donanemab Shows 35% Slower Progression Than FDA-Approved Leqembi (2 min)

Brief: Experimental drug donanemab outperforms FDA-approved Leqembi in slowing Alzheimer's progression by 35%, offering a promising but incremental advancement in treatment efficacy.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

Rust's lifetime system is a unique feature that ensures memory safety without relying on garbage collection. Lifetimes are part of Rust's ownership system and help prevent dangling references by ensuring that references do not outlive the data they point to.

Wen?

• Borrowing Across Functions: Used when you need to pass references to functions and return references, ensuring that the returned reference is valid for the entire lifetime of the input references.

• Struct Field References: Essential when defining structs that hold references to ensure that the referenced data lives at least as long as the struct itself.

• Implementing Methods on Generic Types: Lifetimes become crucial when implementing methods on generic types that use references, helping to express the relationships between the lifetimes of the inputs and outputs.

Why?

• Memory Safety: Lifetimes prevent use-after-free and dangling pointer bugs at compile time, without runtime overhead.

• Explicit Resource Management: Forces developers to think about and design around the lifetimes of their data, leading to more robust code.

• Zero-Cost Abstraction: Provides safety guarantees without impacting runtime performance, as lifetime checks are performed at compile time.

The Job Feast
A fresh cheese job board if you’re looking for a change

• Senior Software Engineer @ Agentio

• Lead Software Engineer @ Counterpart

• Full Stack Software Engineer @ Stan

• Senior AI/Machine Learning Engineer @ Gather

• Software Engineer @ Basis

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