🍔🧠 RIP Microservices; Shopify's 30TB/min Approach

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

• The code editor that’s better than Copilot and Cursor

• How Shopify handles 30TB per minute with modular monolith architecture

• Deep dive into Stripe's document database architecture decisions

• Developer shares insights from solving 1583 LeetCode problems

• Meta's code indexing system scales to billions of lines

• Inside Threads' iOS performance optimization strategies

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• GitHub Copilot becomes free for VS Code users

• Google launches Veo 2 for next-gen video generation

• Starlink launches satellite texting service in New Zealand

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Use Django F() expressions for atomic database operations and better performance

Reading time: 5 minutes

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

Mindset: This quote reminds us to stay true to our values and identity, no matter the challenges we face.

Example: Apple's commitment to design and innovation has remained a core part of their identity, even as they've grown into a tech giant.

Action: Reflect on your core values and write them down. Use them as a guidepost when making decisions.

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (front-end explorer)
Architectures of modern front-end applications

GITHUB REPO (cookin' with Gemini)
Examples and guides for using the Gemini API

ARTICLE (tailwind drama)
Why almost everyone I see uses Tailwind CSS? What's the hype?

ARTICLE (prototype party)
Preferring throwaway code over design docs

ARTICLE (react-o-rama)
React, visualized

ARTICLE (gleaning knowledge)
Indexing code at scale with Glean

ARTICLE (oopsie AI)
OpenAI Incident Retro

ARTICLE (threading the needle)
Understanding the main thread in the browser

ARTICLE (unfinished business)
A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow

ARTICLE (threading performance)
How we think about Threads' iOS performance

ARTICLE (button masquerade)
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing

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

🚀 GitHub Celebrates 150M Developers with Free Copilot in VS Code (2 min)

Brief: GitHub introduces free access to Copilot in VS Code for its 150 million developers, offering tools to enhance coding efficiency with integrated AI assistance.

🎬 Google Unveils Veo 2 and Imagen 3 for Next-Level Media Creation (3 min)

Brief: Google introduces Veo 2 and Imagen 3, advanced tools for video and image generation that enhance creativity with superior realism and artistic diversity.

🖥️ Amazon’s RTO Delays Spark Worker Backlash (2 min)

Brief: Amazon's delays in return-to-office mandates reflect growing employee dissatisfaction with policies, as many workers question leadership's management amid a lack of office space for the shift.

⚡ Adaptive Caching Revolutionizes Video Generation Efficiency (3 min)

Brief: Researchers unveil Adaptive Caching (AdaCache) to significantly boost inference speeds for video diffusion transformers, achieving remarkable quality without additional training.

🧠 Google Unveils Experimental Reasoning AI Model Gemini 2.0 (3 min)

Brief: Google's new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model aims to enhance reasoning abilities and coding skills but shows room for improvement as it struggles with basic tasks.

📡 Starlink Launches First Nationwide Satellite Texting in New Zealand (2 min)

Brief: Starlink's nationwide satellite texting service is now live in New Zealand, aiming to provide coverage to rural areas, but users may face long wait times and limited device compatibility.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

In Python's Django framework, you can use F() expressions to perform database operations directly at the database level, avoiding race conditions and improving performance, especially in high-concurrency scenarios. F() objects represent the value of a model field or annotated column, enabling atomic operations.

Wen?

• Concurrent Updates: Essential when multiple users or processes might be updating the same field simultaneously, preventing race conditions and data inconsistency.

• Bulk Operations: Useful for performing calculations or updates across multiple records efficiently, as operations are executed directly in the database.

• Performance Critical Operations: Ideal for scenarios where minimizing database round trips and ensuring atomic operations are crucial for system performance.

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