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🍔🧠 Leetcode Doesn't Work; Here's Better

PLUS: Amazon's New Product 📚, Git Branching 🧑‍🎓, 3 Tips From Google Director ⚡

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Alex Zajac
October 21st, 2024

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🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

  • Using TypeScript's mapped types gives you flexible and extensible data structures.

Reading time: 5 minutes

Streamline your development process with Pinata’s easy File API

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  • No complex setup or infrastructure needed

  • Focus on building, not configurations

Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
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"Nothing will work unless you do."

Maya Angelou

Mindset: This quote is a powerful reminder that success requires action, not just good intentions.

Example: Slack, the communication platform, grew rapidly by continuously improving its product based on user feedback.

Action: Identify one task you've been putting off and commit to completing it today.

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

How Cloudflare Optimized their Reverse Proxy with Tries

Cloudflare used a nifty data structure called a Trie to cut latency by 75% for a code path that serves 35 million requests per second. Plus, a dive into database fundamentals, a collection of debugging stories and more.

How I STOPPED Failing Coding Interviews

Solving 500+ LeetCode problems doesn’t mean that you can pass any coding interview.

LUC #65: Breaking Down Clean Architecture — Core Ideas, Benefits, Drawbacks, and Use Cases

Plus, Concurrency is NOT parallelism, feature flags explained. and how SQL execution order works and why it's so important

Out With the Old: 3 Steps for a Successful Software Migration Plan

Guest post by Staff Engineer and System Design Expert, Maxi Ferreira

Git Branching Strategies

And which one is perfect for you.

👔 Why bureaucracy is making you less productive. 5 types of engineers in corporate jobs (and which types to avoid)

The 5 common engineer types in corporate bureaucracy, their work habits, and learn which approach boosts productivity and helps navigate corporate challenges effectively.

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

NEWSLETTER (keep up with tech in 5 minutes)
Join 1,250,000+ engineers leveling up

ARTICLE (meeting madness)
Slow Deployment Causes Meetings

ARTICLE (render secrets revealed)
The interactive guide to rendering in React

ARTICLE (reliable design detective)
Practices of Reliable Software Design

ARTICLE (tests that tell tales)
Unit Tests As Documentation

ARTICLE (Python performance showdown)
Python 3.12 vs Python 3.13 – performance testing

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

Brief: Nvidia's Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct model eclipses OpenAI's GPT-4, demonstrating superior performance and pushing the AI technology landscape towards customizable, robust solutions.

Brief: WordPress.org claims control over WP Engine's ACF plugin to address security concerns and eliminate commercial upsells, amidst ongoing legal disputes with the hosting provider.

Brief: Amazon launches the first-ever color Kindle named Colorsoft, retailing for $279, enhancing reading with vibrant visuals for users.

Brief: Sam Altman's Worldcoin rebrands to World, unveiling a new iris-scanning Orb aimed at verifying human identity amid ongoing privacy concerns from governments worldwide.

Brief: SpaceX's fifth Starship flight marks a milestone as its Super Heavy booster is caught by the launch tower's "chopsticks," enhancing reusability in space missions.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

From The Challenges - Calculator

Common Mistakes With The Build Your Own Calculator Coding Challenge

This week’s tip:

The TypeScript feature of mapped types allows you to create new types by transforming the properties of an existing type. This technique can be particularly powerful when working with complex, dynamic data structures, as it enables you to create flexible and extensible data models.

Wen?

  • Adapting Data Structures: Mapped types are useful when you need to create variations of an existing data structure, such as partially required or optional properties, or a subset of properties.

  • Dynamic Data Models: When working with complex, dynamic data structures, mapped types can help you create flexible and extensible data models that can adapt to changing requirements.

  • Reusable Type Transformations: By defining custom mapped types, you can create reusable type transformations that can be applied across your codebase, promoting code consistency and maintainability.

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

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