🍔🧠 Scaling Caching: Meta's Secret to 10 Nines of Cache Consistency
PLUS: What Really Happened With Crowdstrike 🤫, 15 Patterns to Crush Leetcode 💻, LLM-Powered Knowledge Curation System 🤖
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Food for Thought 🧠
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein
Mindset: Persistence trumps raw intelligence; tenacity is the key to solving complex problems.
Example: SpaceX's iterative approach to rocket development embodies Einstein's philosophy of sustained problem-solving.
Action item: Identify your most challenging problem and commit to working on it for an extra 15 minutes today.
The Rabbit Hole 🐰
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead
How Meta Achieves 99.99999999% Cache Consistency 🎯
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LeetCode was HARD until I Learned these 15 Patterns
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Optimize Your Searches with Effective Database Indexing
How a Single Line of Code Brought Down a Billion Dollar Rocket
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3 Steps to Developing a Strong Network
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Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices
A roundup of the microservices usage at Alegro over the last 10 years.
Browser fingerprinting explained (+7 top techniques)
Understand how browser fingerprinting is changing visitor identification and fraud prevention without compromising privacy.
💾 SIDE DISHES 💾
ARTICLE (SQL inner workings)
How SQL Query works?
GITHUB REPO (just-crawl-it)
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python
ESSENTIAL (35 years)
Lessons Learned In 35 Years Of Making Software
ARTICLE (odin)
Odin: Uber's Stateful Platform
ESSENTIAL (CSS as a function)
Embracing Functional CSS: Have we moved on?
ARTICLE (Java vThreads)
Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study
TOOL (shorts)
Create Viral Videos in Seconds
ARTICLE (don’t point)
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues
GITHUB (agents for research)
An LLM-powered knowledge curation system that researches a topic and generates a full-length report with citations.
The Weekly Digest 🗞️
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time
🚫 Windows Machines Hit by BSOD Issue Caused by CrowdStrike Outage (3 min)
Brief: Windows systems worldwide face Blue Screen of Death due to a CrowdStrike outage, disrupting businesses like banks, airlines, and emergency services.
💡 Amazon Prime Day Sets Record with $14.2 Billion in U.S. Online Sales (3 min)
Brief: U.S. shoppers propel Amazon's Prime Day to a record-breaking $14.2 billion in online sales, with consumer electronics and back-to-school items leading the surge.
🧠 Meta Withholds Multimodal AI Model from EU Over Regulatory Concerns (3 min)
Brief: Meta opts out of launching its advanced multimodal AI model in the EU due to regulatory uncertainties, impacting the availability of the model for European firms under an open license.
🎓 Eureka Labs Unveils AI Education Vision for Future Learning (3 min)
Brief: Eureka Labs pioneers an AI-driven teaching approach with LLM101n, combining subject matter expertise with AI Teaching Assistant guidance for optimal learning experiences.
🤖 OpenAI Releases Affordable GPT-4o Mini Model for Developers (5 min)
Brief: OpenAI introduces the cost-effective GPT-4o Mini, expanding access to advanced generative AI models for developers and ChatGPT users, possibly phasing out GPT-3.5 usage.
🚀 Anthropic Teams Up with VC to Kickstart $100M AI Startup Fund (4 min)
Brief: Anthropic partners with Menlo Ventures to launch the Anthology Fund, providing AI startups with investments starting at $100k, access to AI models, and support in various sectors like healthcare and education.
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:
Kotlin coroutines provide a way to write asynchronous, non-blocking code in a sequential style.
Wen?
Network Operations: Ideal for making API calls or other network-related tasks.
Database Interactions: For performing database operations without blocking the main thread.
Long-Running Computations: To execute CPU-intensive tasks off the main thread.
Why?
Simplified Asynchronous Code: Allows writing asynchronous code in a more natural, sequential style.
Lightweight: Coroutines are more resource-efficient than threads for handling concurrent operations.
Cancellation Support: Provides built-in support for canceling long-running operations.
The Job Feast 💼
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cheesejob board if you’re looking for a change
Burp-A-Laugh 🤣
The most important meal of your day
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hey, nice list this week.