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📚 Software Engineering Articles

• How Lyft processes terabytes of real-time data effectively.

• Discover how Netflix uses chaos engineering to enhance system resilience.

• Design a URL shortener during your next system design interview.

• Developers admit to hating their jobs but love coding after hours.

• Lessons in software design from a former home designer turned architect.

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• A trio of OpenAI founders leave the company amidst controversy.

• Groq secures 640 million dollars in Series D funding for rapid AI innovation.

• Structured outputs debut in OpenAI's API; explore the new features.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Implement the Singleton pattern in TypeScript to ensure a class has only one instance.

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

Mindset: This quote reminds us that our mindset is the key to overcoming any challenge.

Example: Nike's "Just Do It" campaign embodies this quote, pushing customers to achieve the "impossible."

Action: Identify one "impossible" task you've been avoiding and make a plan to tackle it today.

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

💾 SIDE DISHES 💾

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GITHUB REPO (table it up!)
The Next Gen Airtable Alternative: No-Code Postgres

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Porting My JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason

ARTICLE (llama love from LLMs)
How I Use "AI"

ARTICLE (tech debt diet plan gone wrong)
"20% for tech debt" doesn't work

ARTICLE (codebase chaos, but make it fun)
"We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase

ARTICLE (react: the messy makeover)
Common Sense Refactoring of a Messy React Component

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Should the daily stand-up die?

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

🛒 Amazon Expands Shopping Experience to TikTok and Pinterest (2 min)

Brief: Amazon enables shoppers to purchase products directly through TikTok and Pinterest, enhancing social commerce and influencing buying behavior on these platforms.

🔄 OpenAI Leadership Shakeup: Co-Founders Brockman and Schulman Depart (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI sees a leadership shift as co-founders Greg Brockman and John Schulman exit amid significant management churn, leaving only two original founders at the helm.

🚀 Groq Secures $640M to Expand AI Inference Capabilities (3 min)

Brief: Groq raises $640M to enhance its AI inference platform, scaling capacity and attracting top talent while meeting skyrocketing developer demand.

🛠️ OpenAI Unveils Structured Outputs in API for Predictable AI Behavior (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI's latest API enhancement introduces structured outputs that allow developers to achieve more consistent and predictable responses from AI, streamlining application integration.

⚠️ Warning: Twitter Content May Disappear at Any Moment (2 min)

Brief: Twitter warns users that certain content might be deleted at any moment, urging them to save it as PDF while highlighting the platform's grassroots development efforts.

💰 Reddit Considers Expanding Ad Revenue and Paywalled Content (2 min)

Brief: Reddit plans to increase ad placements and is exploring paywall options after a $10.1 million loss, with ad revenue growing 41% year over year to $253.1 million.

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

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

The Singleton pattern is a creational design pattern that ensures a class has only one instance and provides a global point of access to it. In TypeScript, you can implement the Singleton pattern using a private constructor and a static getInstance method.

Wen?

• Global Configuration: When you need a single, global configuration object that is accessible from anywhere in your application.

• Shared Resources: When you have a resource that should have only one instance, such as a database connection or a log manager.

• Caching: When you want to cache some expensive-to-create objects and provide a global point of access to them.

Why?

• Controlled Instance Creation: The Singleton pattern ensures that a class has only one instance, which can be useful in scenarios where you want to control the instantiation and lifetime of an object.

• Global Access: The Singleton pattern provides a global point of access to the instance, making it easy to access the object from anywhere in your application.

• Memory Optimization: By ensuring a single instance, the Singleton pattern can help optimize memory usage, as there is no need to create multiple instances of the same object.

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