🍔🧠 Payments 101: Stripe's Protocol
PLUS: Apple's M4 chip powers AI 🤖, Database indexes 101 💾, Crawl websites into clean markdown 📄
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Food for Thought 🧠
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
Mindset: Unwavering commitment to the process, not the outcome, fuels success - focus on execution, not validation.
Example: Apple's relentless pursuit of innovation, even during periods of doubt, exemplifies this mindset.
Action item: Identify one process you can refine today, and immerse yourself in its optimization.
The Rabbit Hole 🐰
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead
How Stripe Prevents Double Payment Using Idempotent API
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A detailed guide on Database Indexes
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How Reddit Built a Metadata Store that Handles 100k Reads per Second
High level goals of Reddit’s metadata store
Picking Sharded Postgres vs. Cassandra
Data Migration Process
Scaling with sharding and denormalization
My Mentee Went From Junior -> Senior Engineer in less than 2 years. Here's how.
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The Anatomy of a Successful Team Squad
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Strategies to Prevent System Misuse and Resource Overload
Mass adoption is any system or application’s dream.
But with that comes the risk of misuse and resource overload.
Measures should be in place to ensure the quality of service across all users.
How to Execute End-to-End Tests at Scale
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How to Use Your Mentor Effectively?
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The Essentials of Software Testing in 5 Minutes
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💾 SIDE DISHES 💾
ARTICLE (JS to TS)
Figma’s journey to Typescript
GITHUB REPO (research for free)
A great open-source agent research powered by LLMs
ESSENTIAL (AWS migration)
Lessons migrating from SAM to AWS CDK
ARTICLE (re-rendering)
Why does React even re-renders?
ESSENTIAL (0-abstract)
What if we didn’t use abstractions?
ARTICLE (how to test)
Test failures should be actionable by design
TOOL (crawwwwwwl)
Crawl and convert any website into clean markdown or structured data
ARTICLE (simple > complex)
Why complexity sells more but simplicity is better
ARTICLE (what did stick in CS)
What are the good ideas that cannot be debated in computer science
The Weekly Digest 🗞️
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time
🍏 Apple Unveils M4 Chip, Ready for AI Tasks (3 min)
Brief: Apple introduces the M4 chip, optimized for AI tasks with enhanced CPU performance and a new Neural Engine, promising breakthrough products with improved speed and precision.
💬 Stack Overflow and OpenAI Join Forces to Boost Developer Experience (3 min)
Brief: OpenAI partners with Stack Overflow to enhance the performance of large language models by integrating Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI, providing improved model insights, and attributing the Stack Overflow community within ChatGPT.
📱 Apple Nears Deal with OpenAI for ChatGPT Integration in iOS 18 (2 min)
Brief: Apple is finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT features into iOS 18, revealing negotiations with Google for its Gemini chatbot and a significant move towards enhancing artificial intelligence capabilities in its devices.
😮 Microsoft Preps MAI-1 AI Model to Rival Google, OpenAI (4 min)
Brief: Microsoft is developing the MAI-1 AI model, aiming to challenge giants like Google and OpenAI by creating a highly advanced and versatile AI system.
🧬 AlphaFold 3: Revolutionizing Molecular Structure Prediction with Unprecedented Accuracy (5 min)
Brief: Google's DeepMind introduces AlphaFold 3, an advanced AI model predicting the structure and interactions of life's molecules, facilitating groundbreaking insights and drug development collaborations.
The Quick Byte 💾
One coding tip because you’re technical after all
This week’s coding challenge (by
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This week’s tip:
Async iterators in Node.js are part of the ES2018 specification and allow handling streams of data asynchronously using a for-await-of loop. This method is particularly effective for efficiently processing large or complex streams of data.
Wen?
Handling Stream Data: Ideal for applications dealing with continuous data streams, such as logs, network traffic, or large files.
Real-Time Data Processing: Useful in scenarios where data needs to be processed in real-time as it becomes available.
Back-Pressure Management: Effective in managing back-pressure in stream processing, ensuring that data isn't consumed faster than it can be processed.
Why?
Non-Blocking I/O: Ensures that the application remains responsive by not blocking the event loop while waiting for data.
Efficient Data Handling: Enables more efficient data handling and processing, optimizing resource usage.
Improved Scalability: Supports better scalability of applications that need to handle high volumes of data or traffic.
The Job Feast 💼
A fresh
cheesejob board if you’re looking for a change
Burp-A-Laugh 🤣
The most important meal of your day
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