🍔🧠 Prime Video: Amazon's Secret to Streaming Video at Scale

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

1. 📚 Stream live video at scale like Amazon, how Canva supports 135M users collaborating and building your professional brand on LinkedIn.

2. 🗞️ OpenAI creates realistic scenes, Google evolves AI capabilities, and Slack boosts productivity.

3. 👨🏻‍💻 Quick byte: Labeled statements control flow precisely in JavaScript.

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

Mindset: Slowing down to think through problems thoroughly before coding saves time and frustration.

Example: Slack's design process emphasizes prototyping and user testing before coding features.

Action item: Before jumping into a coding task, take 5 minutes to think through potential solutions and outline the steps.

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (LLM engineering)
Best practices to design systems with LLMs

ARTICLE (CRD-what?)
An interactive guide to CRDTs, the data type used for peer-to-peer synchronization

GITHUB REPO (aws did it)
The new low-latency Javascript runtime from AWS labs

ESSENTIAL (lessons from 30 years)
Lessons learned from 30 years of software engineers

ARTICLE (finally)
How to Center a Div (definitive illustrated guide)

TUTORIAL (be event-driven)
Event-driven architecture fundamentals and common pitfalls

ARTICLE (git-it)
Git tips and tricks in several parts

TOOL (free-wall)
Paywall remover for most of your sites

TOOL (Nvidia strikes back)
Build a custom LLM with Chat locally

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

🤖 OpenAI Introduces Sora: AI Model Generating Realistic Scenes (4 min)

OpenAI unveils Sora, an AI model creating intricate scenes from text instructions, targeting various industries like art, film, and security.

🌐 Google Launches Gemini 1.5, The Next Step in AI Evolution (2 min)

Google introduces Gemini 1.5, a sophisticated AI model following the success of Gemini, boasting a disruptive "Mixture of Experts" technique to enhance efficiency and speed, with an impressive 1 million token context window.

🤖 Slack AI Revolutionizes Work with AI-Powered Search for Increased Productivity (2 min)

Slack introduces Slack AI, enhancing productivity by providing personalized answers through AI-powered search, saving users on average 97 minutes weekly with major time savings for companies like SpotOn, Uber, and Anthropic.

🔍 OpenAI Developing Web Search Product to Challenge Google (2 min)

OpenAI is working on a web search product that could rival Google, incorporating Bing's technology into the development.

🍎 Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot (2 min)

Apple is working on several generative AI features, including a tool to create code quickly.

👀 Meta’s New AI Model Learns by Watching Videos (2 min)

The company’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun believes the V-JEPA model, which trains by filling in gaps in video, could be a first step toward artificial general intelligence.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

In JavaScript, labeled statements pair with break or continue to control the flow more precisely within loops or switch cases. Labels provide identifiers for statements, allowing you to directly influence the execution of loops or code blocks.

Wen?

• Nested Loops: When managing nested loops you need to break out of or continue in an outer loop from within an inner loop.

• Complex Control Flows: In scenarios where standard loop controls don't offer the needed precision, you want to modify the execution flow based on specific conditions.

Why?

• Enhanced Control: They offer a level of control over loops and switch statements not achievable through regular break and continue statements.

• Increased Clarity: When used judiciously, they can make the control flow of complex loops clearer by explicitly stating which loop is being influenced.

• Avoids Refactoring: In complex loop situations where refactoring into smaller functions or using other control structures might not be viable or would complicate the code further.

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

• Software Engineer, Frontend @ OpenStore

• Software Engineer, Python @ Gartner Health

• Software Engineer @ Github

• Senior Frontend Engineer @ Fitbod

• Software Engineer @ Checkr

• AI Software Engineer @ Zoom

• Staff Software Engineer @ DailyPay

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