🍔🧠 Discord Cut 40% WebSocket Latency Using This
PLUS: Meta's AI Hardware 😮, Interview Graph Algorithms 🧑🎓, How Netflix Does Load Shedding 👨🏻💻
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🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗
📚 Software Engineering Articles
Discover how Discord reduced websocket traffic by 40%.
Learn Netflix's approach to load shedding for resilient streaming.
Master essential graph algorithms to ace coding interviews.
Strategic insights on planning software projects effectively.
Identify undesirable engineer behaviors and how to avoid them.
How to ship secure and tested code 101
🗞️ Tech and AI Trends
Jony Ive confirms he's collaborating with OpenAI on a new device.
Llama 3.2 introduces multimodal capabilities for enhanced AI interactions.
Redis users are exploring alternatives due to licensing changes.
👨🏻💻 Coding Tip
Leverage discriminated unions in TypeScript for type-safe data modeling and operations.
Food for Thought 🧠
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
Farrah Gray
Mindset: This quote inspires you to take control of your future and build a life aligned with your passions, not someone else's.
Example: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs exemplified this quote, leaving a corporate job to create a revolutionary tech company that changed the world.
Action: Carve out 30 minutes today to brainstorm your biggest dreams and start outlining a concrete plan to make them a reality.
The Rabbit Hole 🐰
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead
How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
How we rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by our clients.
Master Graph Algorithms for Coding Interviews
Written by Ashish Pratap Singh
How Netflix does Load Shedding
Dive deep into the strategies that the streaming giant uses to deal with load at scale
Why you cannot deliver fast with the same quality?
Written by Dr Milan Milanović
Why your job search is failing as an engineer or a manager (and how to fix it)
Written by Gregor Ojstersek
Undesirable Behaviors in Software Engineers: Are You Guilty?
Written by Raviraj Achar
How to Plan and Execute Software Projects 🚢
Written by Nicola Ballotta and Luca Rossi
💾 SIDE DISHES 💾
ESSENTIAL (fomo no more)
How to cope with technology FOMO
GITHUB REPO (math made pretty)
Animation engine for explanatory math videos
ARTICLE (chaotic intro)
Introduction to Chaos Engineering
ARTICLE (arc your browser)
Gaining access to anyone's browser without them even visiting a website
ESSENTIAL (senior wisdom)
On Being A Senior Engineer
ESSENTIAL (concurrency madness)
What makes concurrency so hard?
ARTICLE (rusty reflections)
One year of Rust in production
ARTICLE (not all that public)
No One Builds in Public
ARTICLE (latency life hacks)
Optimizing for High Latency Environments
ARTICLE (flagging features like a pro)
Implementing Feature Flagging with the Next.js App Router
ARTICLE (on-call newbie tips)
What I tell people new to on-call
ARTICLE (moving from redis to sqlite)
Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite
ESSENTIAL (design lessons learned)
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
The Weekly Digest 🗞️
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time
🤖 Jony Ive Collaborates with OpenAI on New Device Project (2 min)
Brief: Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are teaming up on an AI hardware project that aims to leverage generative AI, with ambitions for $1 billion funding and a design led by Ive's company, LoveFrom.
🦙 Llama 3.2: The Next Generation of Open-Source AI Models (3 min)
Brief: Llama 3.2 introduces new multilingual and multimodal AI models, offering flexible deployment, enhanced performance, and diverse use cases for developers on various platforms.
😎 Meta’s Smart Glasses: A Chance to Lead the AI Hardware Revolution (4 min)
Brief: Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses may be positioned to lead the AI wearable revolution, successfully integrating style, practicality, and essential features despite past failures in the sector.
🔄 Redis Users Seek Alternatives Amid Licensing Shift (2 min)
Brief: A recent survey indicates 70% of Redis users are exploring alternatives due to the shift to less permissive licensing, sparking interest in Valkey and other FOSS options.
🍓 World's First Vertical Strawberry Farm Aims for 4M Pounds a Year (2 min)
Brief: Richmond, VA, opens the world's first indoor vertical farm dedicated to strawberries, projected to produce 4 million pounds annually, leveraging innovative techniques to combat food scarcity and environmental issues.
🚀 Blue Origin Successfully Tests Second Stage of New Glenn Rocket (2 min)
Brief: Blue Origin's GS2 hot-fire test for the New Glenn rocket marks a significant milestone as the company prepares for a November launch amid potential challenges in vehicle integration and weather conditions.
📚 Ilya Sutskever’s Essential AI Reading List Summarized (15 min)
Brief: A condensed summary of Ilya Sutskever's AI reading list offers insights into foundational papers and concepts essential for mastering deep learning, from CNNs and RNNs to the Transformer architecture and information theory.
The Quick Byte 💾
One coding tip because you’re technical after all
This week’s coding challenge (by John Crickett):
This week’s tip:
The Discriminated Unions feature in TypeScript is a powerful technique for modeling complex data structures and handling type-safe operations on them.
Wen?
Improved Type Safety: Discriminated Unions provide a type-safe way to represent and work with heterogeneous data structures, reducing the risk of runtime errors and making your code more robust.
Expressive and Readable Code: By using a common discriminating property (the
typefield in the example), the structure of your data becomes more explicit and easier to understand.Compiler-Assisted Refactoring: When working with Discriminated Unions, the TypeScript compiler can provide valuable assistance during refactoring, ensuring that all relevant cases are updated consistently across your codebase.
Burp-A-Laugh 🤣
The most important meal of your day
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