🍔🧠 How Palentir Tested 1+ Million Lines in Typescript

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

• Discover lessons from a million lines of TypeScript at Palantir.

• Learn how Google Search works behind the scenes.

• Dive into designing Spotify for system design interviews.

• Understand ELT demystified from raw data to insights.

• Explore the case against documenting code in modern software practices.

• How to become a Product Engineer 101

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• OpenAI announces Dev Day 2024; what’s new in AI?

• Google’s AlphaChip revolutionizes chip design with AI assistance.

• The world’s first 3D-printed hotel opens doors in Texas; an industry breakthrough.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Utilize Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) for cleaner, efficient asynchronous code with RxJS.

Reading time: 5 minutes

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

Mindset: Confront your fears to unlock your true potential and live the life you desire.

Example: Spanx founder Sara Blakely overcame self-doubt to build a billion-dollar shapewear empire.

Action: Make a list of your fears and commit to facing one of them this week.

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

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100 exercises to learn Rust

ARTICLE (sqlite or bust)
Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite

ARTICLE (python's got tricks)
Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill

ARTICLE (money without a hitch)
Why Payments Engineers Should Avoid State Machines

GITHUB REPO (finance on auto-pilot)
The OS for your personal finances

ARTICLE (scrum or scrum not)
Are Scrum Masters Too Much Overhead?

ARTICLE (url control freak)
How to control a React component with the URL

ARTICLE (type-casting fun)
Types vs No Types

ARTICLE (data sync wizardry)
Data Synchronization

ARTICLE (office vibes check)
Ask HN: For those who can choose to go to the office, and go, why do you go?

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

🎉 OpenAI Unveils Exciting Developments at Dev Day Event (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI's Dev Day highlighted innovative updates, including new tools and features aimed at enhancing user experience and expanding their AI capabilities for developers.

🚀 Google Launches AlphaChip for Faster AI-Powered Chip Design (3 min)

Brief: Google introduces AlphaChip, an AI-driven method that revolutionizes chip design by optimizing layouts up to 24 times faster, seeking to democratize this cutting-edge technology.

🏨 World's First 3D-Printed Hotel Unveiled in Texas Desert (2 min)

Brief: Construction of El Cosmico, the world's first 3D-printed hotel, is underway in Texas, featuring unique domed designs, vacation homes, and plans for affordable housing in a 60-acre landscape.

📱 Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps? (3 min)

Brief: Apple’s iOS 18 contact-sharing changes may stifle the growth of new social apps, raising concerns among developers relying on user connectivity for viral success.

🌌 Earth Poised to Capture a 'Second Moon' in 2024 (2 min)

Brief: Scientists predict that Earth will temporarily capture a tiny asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5, as a "second moon" for a brief stay beginning September 29.

🚀 Anthropic Welcomes OpenAI Co-Founder Durk Kingma to Their Team (2 min)

Brief: Anthropic strengthens its team with the addition of Durk Kingma, an OpenAI co-founder, who aims to contribute to responsible AI development while working remotely from the Netherlands.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

The RxJS library (Reactive Extensions for JavaScript) provides a powerful set of tools for implementing Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) in JavaScript. FRP is a programming paradigm that focuses on the propagation of asynchronous data streams and the application of functional programming techniques to handle them.

Wen?

• Handling Asynchronous Data Streams: FRP in RxJS is particularly useful when dealing with asynchronous data sources, such as user events, API responses, and time-based events, where the data flow needs to be managed efficiently.

• Composing Complex Reactive Flows: RxJS provides a rich set of operators that allow you to combine, filter, transform, and control the flow of multiple data streams, enabling the creation of complex and composable reactive architectures.

• Event-Driven Applications: FRP in RxJS is a natural fit for building event-driven applications, where the focus is on reacting to and managing various events and asynchronous data sources.

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