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Announcing TypeScript 4.2 — TypeScript is an extension (a superset, if you will) to JavaScript that adds static types and type-checking.

Tree-Sitter: A Parser Generator Tool and Incremental Parsing Library — It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited. General enough to parse any language and claims to be fast enough “to parse on every keystroke in a text editor.” GitHub repo.

Effortlessly Optimize & Resize Images in AWS S3 with ImageKit — Attach your AWS S3 bucket directly to ImageKit & start delivering optimized, transformed images in real-time in a jiffy.

How Uber is Evolving Schemaless into a Distributed SQL Database — An update to a hugely popular set of blog posts from 2016 about how Uber built a ‘schemaless’ data store on top of MySQL. Their thinking has evolved somewhat since then. Uber is now working on ‘Docstore’, a multi-model database that can scale horizontally – it still uses MySQL under the hood, though.

📊 Guide to Grafana 101 — Learn how to build awesome, interactive visualizations, set up custom alerts, and tackle common Grafana issues – and get the code samples, pro tips & resources you need to apply the concepts to your projects 🎉

Using Postgres to Do a Regex-Based Search Over 10,000 GitHub Repositories — Empirical measurements from experiments in using Postgres to index and search over 10,000 popular GitHub repositories using pg_trgm (trigram matching functions) on a 2019 MacBook Pro.

Firefox 86 Introduces 'Total Cookie Protection' — The goal of ‘total cookie protection’ is to confine cookies solely to the site where they were created, rather than letting tracking companies use them to track your activity across the Web. It essentially gives you a separate ‘cookie jar’ per site. This is part of a broader idea called state partitioning.

Looks Good To Me: Making Code Reviews Better for Remote-First Teams — A developer from the BBC News team shares some of what they’ve learnt about code review that has improved their internal engineering culture.

10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore — A quick fly through several common programming related adages and ‘laws’ from Conway’s Law to the Iceberg Fallacy.

Synthetic Data: Generating Realistic User Timestamps in SQL — How to generate synthetic timestamps with SQL that match realistic user behavior data versus purely picking random times.

Research Software Code Is Likely to Remain a Tangled Mess — For as much as developers like to adopt quality-led ideas like test driven development or strong typing, the fact is a lot of important code out there is a big pile of barely intelligible spaghetti.

Modernizing from PostgreSQL to Serverless with Fauna — It pays to note this series of blog posts is by Fauna so there’s natural bias here, but any “why you might move from X to Y” example interests me when it comes to data, and serverless data APIs do offer a lot of benefits for certain use cases. Seeing how they remodel the data is...

How to Secure API Routes for Jamstack Sites — Serverless functions such as Netlify Functions aren’t protected from misuse by default as the endpoint URL is exposed. This posts looks at some strategies to add some basic security to these functions.

▶  Building Your First AWS Lambda Function in VS Code — A tight tutorial screencast that clocks in at under 10 minutes.

Rhit: A Nginx Log Explorer — A small utility built in Rust to do some basic analysis of Nginx log files.

Tauri: A New Framework for Building Desktop Apps with a Web Frontend — Electron is the big cheese in the ‘build desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS’ space but other contenders are now coming along including this Rust-based one. You still use Node under the hood and you can get running on Linux, macOS and Windows.

Full Stack Developer (Ruby) — Develop and grow our Rails platform/stack to support innovation funding globally. High growth, London based (UK only, Remote OK).

Serverless Legacy Modernization with AWS Lambda + Cobol — A repo containing a GitHub workflow for deploying an AWS Lambda function written in Cobol (yes, the legacy language first created in 1959!)

ZWS: A URL Shortener Based on Invisible Spaces — Do I recommend this approach? Not at all. Do I think it’s funny/clever? Yes. The actual service is here.

Adminer: Database Management in a Single PHP File — A mature project that’s an alternative to phpMyAdmin for managing Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and other databases via a Web interface. The main selling point is it’s distributed as a single PHP file. v4.8.0 just dropped. GitHub repo.

How Let's Encrypt is Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours — Let’s Encrypt usually issues two million certificates per day, so why do they want to scale up to 100x that? Worst case scenarios. What if they need to suddenly reissue every certificate they manage?

Go 1.16 Released — A significant release for the popular systems language. The release notes cover the details but you can expect faster and more efficient builds, the use of Go modules by default, macOS Arm64 support, and native file embedding support in executables.

▶  A Deep Dive Into AWS Lambda Security and Function Isolation — A look at what happens behind the scenes at AWS to ensure that serverless functions are secure and that all of the millions of functions they run aren’t tripping over each other.

My Philosophy on Alerting — ...“based my observations while I was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.” There’s a lot to enjoy here if you’re in the position of auditing or writing alerting rules on your own systems.

The Top 15 AWS Architecture Blog Posts of 2020 — This is a good retrospective to some useful blog posts if you’re working with AWS.

▶  Java's Quirks and Wrong (?) Defaults with Brian Goetz — An interesting chat with one of the leading figures in the Java world about what Java got ‘wrong’ but why it still works well that way.

4 Steps for Kafka Rebalance - Notes From the Field — Our insights from the journey of creating the desired balance of partitions between Brokers, while reducing the data movement and overhead in the cluster.

A Compiled List of Kubernetes Failure Stories — The rationale for this? Learning experiences for people dealing with Kubernetes ops on a daily basis.

How to Generate Thumbnails using AWS Lambda from Videos Uploaded to S3 — A perfect pairing of serverless and Node.js. This thorough walkthrough covers using Node to tie together processing new videos uploaded to an S3 bucket, running FFmpeg to generate thumbnails, and then upload those back to S3.

Alex Ellis' Experiences Publishing 'Serverless For Everyone Else' — After four years of building the OpenFaaS project, Alex Ellis sat and wrote a book about it all called Serverless for Everyone Else. While the book is worth checking out, this post is more an interesting look at what publishing your own book is like and, notably, “in 14 days, I’ve received more money than...

How To Set Up Continuous Archiving and Perform Point-In-Time-Recovery with Postgres 12 on Ubuntu 20.04 — Another straightforward ‘what it says in the title’ tutorial published by DigitalOcean.

Typesense: An Open Source, Typo-Tolerant Search Engine — Pitched as an open source alternative to systems like Algolia, Typesense’s primary focus is speed and developer convenience for adding things like instant search or autosuggest to your sites. GitHub repo. BTW, Meilisearch is another great option in this space.

Endgame: An AWS Pentesting Tool from Salesforce — A tool to demonstrate how simple human errors in excessive permissions (such a granting s3:* access instead of s3:GetObject) can be abused and it supports more resource types than even AWS’s own IAM Access Analyzer. This is interesting as Salesforce is a huge AWS user (via Heroku).

Online GIF Tools: A Variety of Browser-Based GIF Editing Tools — Covers things like rotation, flipping, cropping, adding borders, etc. EZGif Optimizer is another online tool I often find useful for tweaking animated GIFs in particular.

Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/s IO on a Single Workstation — When correctly configured, modern machines can be so fast on their own that many scaling or distribution issues can fade away if you so wish. It’s fun to see how far a single modern workstation can be stretched and how databases can benefit.

Bref 1.2: Serverless PHP Made Simple — A framework to write and deploy serverless PHP applications on AWS Lambda. v1.2.0 release notes.

Colorpedia: A Command-Line Tool for Looking Up Colors and Palettes — Written in Python and needs a terminal that supports true color.

yq: A Portable Command-Line YAML Processor — jq is a popular tool for working with JSON from the command line – yq takes a similar idea to the YAML world.

Homebrew 3.0.0 Released — The popular package manager aimed primarily at macOS now has official Apple Silicon support (although, of course, not every package has a compatible version yet).

Using macOS APIs and Building macOS apps with Go — An introduction to macdriver, an Objective C bridge for Go offering bindings to common Mac-based APIs.

The Missing Guide to AWS API Gateway Access Logs — This post goes really deep into logging API Gateway requests which can be invaluable if you have gnarly problems to diagnose.

From First Principles: Why Scala? — Scala is a popular language whose buzz seems to have nonetheless waned in recent years. This post goes in depth as to why you might still consider it.

Why Your Project Needs an ARCHITECTURE.md File — If you maintain an open source project that’s half way popular, what about adding some basic documentation about the high level architecture of the system? Here’s an example.