🍔🧠 GitHub Architecture: How to Search Code at Scale

PLUS: Amazon S3's durability masterclass 💾, Vercel's codebase scaling prowess 🚀, converting screenshots to code 🧙‍♂️

Mar 11, 2024

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🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 How Github Serves Code Search at Scale, Free Microsoft AI Courses, and How Amazon S3 Achieves 99.999999999% Durability.
🗞️ Claude 3 is Here, Apple Plans a Foldable Macbook and AWS to Power Data Centers with Nuclear Energy
👨🏻‍💻 Quick byte: How the Observer Pattern Can be Useful in Event-Driven Systems

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

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‘Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.’

Roy T. Bennett

Mindset: Embracing dreams over fears cultivates resilience, innovation, and growth – essential for entrepreneurial success.

Example: Airbnb founders defied fears of disrupting the hotel industry, led by their dream of unique travel experiences.

Action item: Write down one dream goal today, however ambitious, and take one small step towards it.

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

How GitHub Built Their Code Search Feature

We'll talk about the data structures and tech underlying GitHub's code search feature. Plus, Sergey Brin's recent talk on Gemini Pro, improving productivity with focus and more.

How Amazon S3 Achieves 99.999999999% Durability

#38: Break Into Incredible Amazon Engineering (7 minutes)

5 Lessons I learned the hard way from 6 years as a software engineer

Hey there, Jordan here 👋. You’re probably familiar with most of my articles being a “how-to” guide. Those guides come from my real-world experience and lessons I learned—usually from mistakes I made. This article is going to cover the 5 biggest lessons…

LUC #44: Strategies For A Successful Microservices Transition

Plus, how SSO (single sign-on) works, and the main components of Docker explained

What Is a Modular Monolith?

Modular monoliths blend the simplicity and robustness of traditional monolithic applications with the flexibility and scalability of microservices. Today, I'll introduce you to the modular monolith architecture and why you should know about it.

Retrospective Meetings Demystified

A Comprehensive Guide to Run Effective Retrospective Meetings

Tech Dive on Apache Kafka

A long-form tech dive on Kafka, it's design goals, components, messaging patterns and more. Plus, how to avoid pitfalls when choosing your tech stack, scaling a large codebase and more!

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

ARTICLE (vector search 101)
A blueprint of learning on the AI-powered vector search

GITHUB REPO (microsoft strikes again)
Free courses and content on generative AI by Microsoft

TOOL (prompts on steroids)
GravityWrite, AI writing simplified with templates

ARTICLE (play-it-wright)
How to test frontend changes with Playwright

ESSENTIAL (scaling code)
How Vercel scaled their codebase to thousands of devs

ARTICLE (billing isn’t fun)
14 pains of building your own billing system

GITHUB REPO (screenshot it)
Convert a screenshot to functional code in seconds

ARTICLE (juniors beware)
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior

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

🤯 Anthropic Introduces the Next Generation of Claude (2 min)

Brief: The new Claude 3 model family has set open a new standard for accuracy in LLMs, with demos and benchmarks jaw-dropping people on Twitter and LinkedIn.

🚀 Inflection Unveils High-Efficiency AI Model, Rivals GPT-4 with Less Compute (2 min)

Brief: Inflection releases Inflection-2.5, boasting near GPT-4 performance with just 40% of the compute, marking a significant leap in AI efficiency and capability.

🍏 Apple to Unfold the Future with a 20-inch MacBook Featuring Foldable Screen (2 min)

Brief: Apple targets 2027 for its 20-inch foldable MacBook, hinting at a future where large-screen portables can be both high-tech and compact.

🌍 AWS to Power Data Centers with Nuclear Energy, Buys Campus for $650M (2 min)

Brief: AWS acquires Cumulus data center campus, powered by nuclear energy, in a $650 million deal, signaling a shift towards clean, carbon-free power for cloud computing.

🤖 OpenAI Details Mission and Relationship with Elon Musk, Emphasizes AGI's Benefits for Humanity (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI shares insights on its AGI mission and past collaboration with Elon Musk, highlighting the challenges and strategic shifts necessary to benefit humanity.

💹 Bitcoin Breaks $70,000, Enters Price Discovery Mode (2 min)

Brief: Bitcoin surpasses $70,000, driven by spot Bitcoin ETFs, marking a new ATH and signaling its entrance into price discovery territory.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

Coding Challenge #52 - Docker

This challenge is to build your own version of Docker.

This week’s tip:

The Observer pattern defines a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object (the subject) changes state, all its dependents (observers) are notified and updated automatically. This pattern is widely used in event-driven systems, where objects need to be notified of changes without being tightly coupled.