🍔🧠 How LinkedIn Scaled to 5 Million Queries Per Second

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📚 Software Engineering Articles

• How to become a Product Engineer 101.

• How Netflix built a self-healing system to survive concurrency challenges.

• Discover the difference between concurrency vs parallelism and why it matters.

• Learn how LinkedIn scaled to 5 million queries per second.

• The one framework every engineer should know for streamlined development.

• Extract insights on password security in databases from this deep dive.

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• Anthropic's collaboration with AWS may reshape AI training.

• Discover Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to enhance AI interactions.

• Alibaba challenges OpenAI with their new o1 reasoning model in the competitive AI landscape.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Utilize the Decorator Pattern in Python to enhance object functionality dynamically.

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

Mindset: Focus on personal growth and development to create positive change in your life.

Example: Patagonia, a sustainable outdoor apparel company, designs products with an internal commitment to environmental conservation.

Action: Identify one area of personal growth you want to improve and create a simple plan to work on it this week.

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ESSENTIAL (vector magic)
Binary vector embeddings are so cool

GITHUB REPO (agent-tastic)
Flexible and powerful framework for managing multiple AI agents and handling complex conversations

ARTICLE (chunky savings)
Astra Dynamic Chunks: How We Saved by Redesigning a Key Part of Astra

ARTICLE (search wizardry)
How to improve search without looking at queries or results

ARTICLE (symbolic nonsense)
Exploring JavaScript Symbols

ARTICLE (mentor-mentality)
I have 30 years of experience and still need a mentor. You do too

ARTICLE (postgres pearls)
What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

ARTICLE (burnout breakdown)
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps

ARTICLE (dependency disaster)
Python dependency management is a dumpster fire

ARTICLE (browser bonanza)
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support

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

🚀 Anthropic and AWS Expand Collaboration to Revolutionize AI Development (3 min)

Brief: Anthropic announces a $4 billion investment from AWS, enhancing their partnership to optimize Trainium technology and improve AI capabilities for numerous organizations, including Pfizer and the European Parliament.

🔗 Anthropic Opens Up Model Context Protocol for AI Data Connectivity (4 min)

Brief: Anthropic unveils the Model Context Protocol, a universal open standard aimed at connecting AI systems with data sources, streamlining integrations to enable AI assistants to deliver more relevant responses.

🚀 Alibaba Unveils OpenAI Competing Reasoning Model QwQ-32B (2 min)

Brief: Alibaba's new QwQ-32B-Preview, boasting 32.5 billion parameters, challenges OpenAI’s model with superior performance on benchmark tests like AIME and MATH.

🎨 Artists Leak OpenAI's Sora Video Generator amid Concerns of Exploitation (3 min)

Brief: A group of artists claims OpenAI is using them as unpaid testers for its Sora video generator while pressuring them to promote the tool positively.

🤖 BMW's Figure 02 Humanoid Robot Achieves 400% Speed Boost in Manufacturing (2 min)

Brief: BMW's Figure 02 humanoid robot revolutionizes manufacturing with a 400% speed increase and a significant rise in accuracy, showing its potential in autonomous production.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

In JavaScript/TypeScript, optional chaining (?.) can be combined with nullish coalescing (??) to safely handle deeply nested objects with fallback values. This advanced combination provides a clean and concise way to avoid runtime errors when accessing properties on potentially null or undefined objects:

Wen?

• Accessing Deeply Nested Properties: Safely access nested properties without having to check for null or undefined at each level.

• Fallback Values: Provide default values when a property is null or undefined.

• Dealing with API Responses: Essential for handling unpredictable or incomplete API responses.

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