🍔🧠 RIP JSON: Clickhouse's New Data Type for Storage

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

• Discover how to create a powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse.

• Uncover the top 5 caching strategies every developer should know.

• Learn the inner workings of Amazon S3 and its architecture.

• The best API to translate and dub videos with AI

• Check out how Discord reduced WebSocket traffic by 40%.

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• Sam Altman's WorldCoin introduces a new iris-scanning orb to verify your humanity.

• Elon Musk's xAI launches an API for easy integration into applications.

• Stripe makes headlines with the acquisition of Bridge for $1.1 billion.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Use memoization in TypeScript to optimize expensive function calls efficiently.

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

Mindset: This quote reminds us to focus on the present and future, not get weighed down by the past.

Example: Apple Inc., once on the verge of bankruptcy, transformed itself by focusing on innovation rather than past failures.

Action: Identify one past challenge you've overcome and consciously shift your mindset to how you can apply those learnings today.

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (discord magic)
How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%

GITHUB REPO (draw and conquer)
Free, simple, and intuitive online database diagram editor and SQL generator

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Upgrading Uber’s MySQL Fleet to version 8.0

ARTICLE (frontend fun time)
How Vercel adopted microfrontends

ESSENTIAL (priority on priorities)
FOQS: Scaling a distributed priority queue

ESSENTIAL (git good vibes)
How I use git

ARTICLE (uber speedy experiments)
Making Uber's Experiment Evaluation Engine 100x Faster

ARTICLE (cache me if you can)
Server Side State management in NextJS: a deep dive into React Cache

ARTICLE (folder folding fun)
React Folder Structure in 5 Steps [2024]

ARTICLE (sample this!)
Sampling with SQL

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

👁️ Sam Altman's Worldcoin Rebrands as 'World' with New Iris-Scanning Orb (3 min)

Brief: Sam Altman's project rebrands to World, unveiling a next-gen iris-scanning Orb aimed at verifying humanity amidst ongoing skepticism and privacy concerns.

🤖 xAI Launches API for Generative AI Integration (2 min)

Brief: Elon Musk's xAI has introduced a bare-bones API featuring the "grok-beta" model, aimed at facilitating access to its generative AI capabilities for developers at a cost of $5 per million input tokens.

💰 Stripe Acquires Bridge for $1.1 Billion in Crypto's Largest Deal (3 min)

Brief: Stripe's $1.1 billion acquisition of the stablecoin platform Bridge marks a significant step in the evolution of crypto payments, enhancing its offerings in the digital currency sector.

🕶️ Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Dominate Sales in EMEA Region (2 min)

Brief: The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are the top-selling product in 60% of Ray-Ban stores across the EMEA region, reflecting a strong consumer appetite for stylish smart eyewear despite their higher price.

🖱️ Anthropic Launches AI Tool to Control Mouse Cursor (3 min)

Brief: Anthropic's new AI tool can now take over the user's mouse, executing complex tasks via multi-step commands, raising questions about its potential impact on automation and job security.

🚀 OpenAI's Orion Model Set for December Release (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI is gearing up to unveil its Orion AI model by December, with early access going to select partners rather than a wide release, navigating amidst significant organizational changes.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

Memoization is a performance optimization technique that can significantly improve the efficiency of your TypeScript application by caching the results of expensive function calls. It's particularly useful when you have a function that performs a complex computation or makes a costly API call, and you need to invoke it multiple times with the same input.

Wen?

• Repetitive Computations: When you have a function that performs a complex or expensive computation, and you need to call it multiple times with the same input, memoization can significantly improve performance.

• Caching API Responses: If your function makes an API call, memoization can help cache the responses, reducing the number of network requests and improving the overall responsiveness of your application.

• Recursive or Iterative Algorithms: Memoization is particularly useful for optimizing recursive or iterative algorithms that involve repetitive computations, such as dynamic programming problems.

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