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🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗
📚 Software Engineering Articles
How to become a Product Engineer 101.
How Netflix built a self-healing system to survive concurrency challenges.
Discover the difference between concurrency vs parallelism and why it matters.
Learn how LinkedIn scaled to 5 million queries per second.
The one framework every engineer should know for streamlined development.
Extract insights on password security in databases from this deep dive.
🗞️ Tech and AI Trends
Anthropic's collaboration with AWS may reshape AI training.
Discover Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to enhance AI interactions.
Alibaba challenges OpenAI with their new o1 reasoning model in the competitive AI landscape.
👨🏻💻 Coding Tip
Utilize the Decorator Pattern in Python to enhance object functionality dynamically.
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Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
Mindset: Focus on personal growth and development to create positive change in your life.
Example: Patagonia, a sustainable outdoor apparel company, designs products with an internal commitment to environmental conservation.
Action: Identify one area of personal growth you want to improve and create a simple plan to work on it this week.
The Rabbit Hole
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead
💾 SIDE DISHES 💾
ESSENTIAL (vector magic)
Binary vector embeddings are so cool
GITHUB REPO (agent-tastic)
Flexible and powerful framework for managing multiple AI agents and handling complex conversations
ARTICLE (chunky savings)
Astra Dynamic Chunks: How We Saved by Redesigning a Key Part of Astra
ARTICLE (search wizardry)
How to improve search without looking at queries or results
ARTICLE (symbolic nonsense)
Exploring JavaScript Symbols
ARTICLE (mentor-mentality)
I have 30 years of experience and still need a mentor. You do too
ARTICLE (postgres pearls)
What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
ARTICLE (burnout breakdown)
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
ARTICLE (dependency disaster)
Python dependency management is a dumpster fire
ARTICLE (browser bonanza)
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support
The Weekly Digest
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time
Brief: Anthropic announces a $4 billion investment from AWS, enhancing their partnership to optimize Trainium technology and improve AI capabilities for numerous organizations, including Pfizer and the European Parliament.
Brief: Anthropic unveils the Model Context Protocol, a universal open standard aimed at connecting AI systems with data sources, streamlining integrations to enable AI assistants to deliver more relevant responses.
Brief: Alibaba's new QwQ-32B-Preview, boasting 32.5 billion parameters, challenges OpenAI’s model with superior performance on benchmark tests like AIME and MATH.
Brief: A group of artists claims OpenAI is using them as unpaid testers for its Sora video generator while pressuring them to promote the tool positively.
Brief: BMW's Figure 02 humanoid robot revolutionizes manufacturing with a 400% speed increase and a significant rise in accuracy, showing its potential in autonomous production.
The Quick Byte
One coding tip because you’re technical after all
This week’s coding challenge:
This week’s tip:
In JavaScript/TypeScript, optional chaining (?.) can be combined with nullish coalescing (??) to safely handle deeply nested objects with fallback values. This advanced combination provides a clean and concise way to avoid runtime errors when accessing properties on potentially null or undefined objects:
Wen?
Accessing Deeply Nested Properties: Safely access nested properties without having to check for null or undefined at each level.
Fallback Values: Provide default values when a property is
nullorundefined.Dealing with API Responses: Essential for handling unpredictable or incomplete API responses.
Burp-A-Laugh
The most important meal of your day
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