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Chronograf: Integrated Monitoring and Alerting — This comes from the same folks who brought us Telegraf, the flexible and intelligent agent for gathering metrics, and provides a way of integrating all that data, visualizing it and then configuring automated alerts.

'Why Senior Engineers Get Nothing Done' — This is one of those insightful but slightly flippant opinion posts where you might find things hit a little close to home. However you feel about it, being a senior software engineer in an organization is not necessarily what you think it might be at first glance and may not be the actual job you want.

The Database of Databases — An online encyclopedia of 714, and counting, database systems from Carnegie Mellon University. It also includes a leaderboard of stats showing the most common countries of origin (US is #1 unsurprisingly), programming language used (Java at #1), and more.

ARM, the UK-based Chip Designer, Being Bought By Nvidia — This isn’t something that will affect many developers for now but could have repercussions down the road, especially as Arm-powered servers and even desktops and laptops (see Apple’s recent move) become more prevalent. Analyst Ben Thompson has written more about Nvidia's 'integration dreams'.

AWS EC2's New Arm-Based T4g Instances — AWS has released Graviton 2 powered T4g EC2 instances and they’re so keen for users to see if Arm servers would work for them that they’re giving every AWS user a trial.

How (and Why) GitLab Upgraded from Postgres 9.6 to 11 — Some of the GitLab team explain the precise maintenance process they took to execute a major version upgrade of Postgres on their systems. And, even better, they recorded the whole 2 hour process so you can see how it was actually conducted! It doesn’t make for exciting viewing, but it’s a very uncommon look behind the ops curtain at a major company.

Devops Engineer (Full Time / Full Remote) — We're looking for a devops to join our fast-growing, well-funded company that makes thousand of African fashion designers happy.

JavaScript for Data Science: A Book — A book available both commercial and to read online here aimed not specifically at JavaScript developers (as it provides a neat introduction to JS in its own right) but at anyone looking to use JavaScript as a bit of a ‘Swiss Army knife’ for working with datasets.

An Introduction to Modern CMake for Beginners — A look at one of the most popular build systems for C and C++.

Running a Serverless OAuth Proxy with Grant — Grant is a JavaScript-powered OAuth proxy that, till now, has needed to be run in a typical HTTP servery way, but.. it now supports AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions and Vercel out of the box.

Easily Build Android Chat With Stream — Learn how easy it is to use Stream's Android Java & Kotlin chat SDK. Build real-time chat for Android, iOS, and web in hours not months.

Microsoft's Underwater Data Centre Resurfaces After Two Years — Two years ago we talked about Microsoft’s underwater ‘data center’ getting a webcam but now the experiment has been risen and seems to have provided some valuable lessons.

Building Windows Terminal with WinUI — The project manager for the new Windows Terminal app reflects on its use of the Windows UI Library (WinUI).

The History of Web Search — The fourth entry in Jay Hoffmann’s excellent and detailed Web History series, this time looking at the birth of web search (think AltaVista, Yahoo!, Excite, etc).

The Future of .NET Standard — Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant – this post explains how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. .NET 5.0 RC1 is also out, by the way.

How cdnjs Migrated to Serverless with Cloudflare and Workers KV — cdnjs is a free CDN service that hosts almost 4000 JavaScript libraries. Cloudflare provides the CDN services, but now it’s been remodelled to using their serverless Workers platform and Workers KV key-value data store – here’s the full story.

Can One Person Run An Open Source Project Alone? — Is a project managed best by a single person with the final say or through building consensus with a committee of several people?

Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Automatic Language Identification — Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition service and can transcribe natural language into text. Currently you have to tag which language is being spoken but now automatic identification of languages can take place.

Apache Tika: A Content Analysis Toolkit — The Apache Foundation incubates a lot of great software, so much in fact that much of it can fly under the radar, but this is pretty neat if you need to parse and extract metadata and text from almost anything.

Changelog CI: A GitHub Action That Generates a Changelog — Each change is added to the top of your CHANGELOG.md file and committed and/or added as a comment to the rull request for that release.

Emacs Prelude 1.0: An Enhanced Emacs Distribution — Prelude is a long standing Emacs (a popular operating system text editor) distribution aimed at making things easier for newcomers and more powerful for Emacs power users.

SQL Fiddle: A Tool for Online Testing of Database Queries — Set up your schema (which can be empty) on the left then issue queries on the right. Supports specific (slightly old) versions of MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and SQL Server. DB Fiddle is a similar tool covering newer versions of MySQL and Postgres.

OneFuzz: A Self-Hosted Fuzzing-As-A-Service Platform from Microsoft — The code isn’t here yet but is promised to ‘drop’ alongside a presentation at CppCon 2020 this Friday (September 18).. so might be worth watching or starring if it’s of interest.

The GitHub ReadME Project: Meet The People Behind The Projects You Love — GitHub’s new ReadME Project is essentially a Web publication designed to shine a spotlight on open source maintainers and developers. The initial set of stories is pretty good, covering a developer from South Sudan who moved to Kenya, the creator of OpenFaas, how an ImageMagick maintainer balances ImageMagick and his job, and more.

AVIF Has Landed: A New Image Format for the Web — A deep dive into all of the benefits of the AVIF image format, with plenty of visual examples, and details on the techniques and codecs behind the tech. Support is currently limited but likely to follow quickly and it’s possible to use AVIF at the same time as more established formats.

Google Cloud API Gateway Now in Public Beta — A new fully-managed Google Cloud service for creating, securing and monitoring APIs for serverless workloads - built on top of Envoy. Think GCP’s answer to AWS API Gateway.

If Everyone Hates It, Why Is OOP Still So Widely Spread? — Object oriented programming has been wildly successful. But was its success just a coincidence? And can it still offer something unique in 2020 that other programming paradigms cannot?

BitTorrent v2: It's Here, Sort Of — The next major version of BitTorrent was specified a few years ago but now libtorrent-2.0 has been released with support for it. It transitions away from SHA-1 to a new non-backwards compatible hash function and better supports breaking up a torrent into distinct files for more efficient transfers. Will most BitTorrent clients remain using v1.0 for the foreseeable future? Yes.

▶  What Comes After Open Source? — The creator of The Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative reflects on what ‘open source’ has come to mean and why it might be time to move forward with a new paradigm.

The UNIX who Command and Reimplementing It — A look at where who gets its data and how you can directly get it yourself.

▶  A Look 'Behind the Code' of the Konami Code in Contra — In the NES version of the 80s game Contra you could use the famous ‘Konami code’ (a combination of directional and button presses) to get extra lives. Here’s how it was implemented under the hood.

How To: Automatic SSL Certificates for Internal IPs via LetsEncrypt — A look at an alternative to using self-signed certificates for internal use cases (MicroK8s in this case, but the principle works for other things too).

Sqreen: Application Security Management (Free 14-Day Trial) — Deploy Sqreen in under 5 minutes to protect your web apps against data breaches and get actionable insights into threats.

Mining for Logic Bugs in the Citus Extension to Postgres with SQLancer — One of those things you’re unlikely to need to do, but it’s nice to know how such problems are approached. SQLancer is a tool we’ve linked to before that helps you detect logic-related bugs in database systems.

The Impostor's Advantage — A Stripe developer who previously worked at both Google and Microsoft shares a fable, of sorts, about his experiences with imposter syndrome and how he moved forward from it.

Comparing Data in Google and Netlify Analytics — An interesting look at how the differing approaches of Google Analytics and Netlify Analytics don’t just differ on the margins but can tell very different stories altogether.

Ask HN: What Is Your Favorite Method of Sending Large Files? — Hacker News tackles the seemingly never entirely solved problem of sending large files online and, unsurprisingly, there are a lot of opinions.

Workflows Beta: A New Google Cloud Service — Workflows provides serverless workflow orchestration of Google Cloud products and any HTTP-based APIs, including private endpoints and SaaS, with a pay as you go model.

GitDuck: Pair Programming with JetBrains IDEs — An interesting development from JetBrains (the IDE folks) that aims to let you do pair programming across IDEs (and not just JetBrains’ ones) including VS Code and Android Studio.

ngrok for VSCode: Public URLs for Local Dev Servers — ngrok is a popular service and project for opening up a secure tunnel to local dev servers for testing, etc. This lets you control it from VS Code.

Linux From Scratch 10.0 — Linux From Scratch (LFS) provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system from source code. One for a long weekend, perhaps.

NativeScript 7.0: Create Native iOS and Android Apps with JS — A signficant step forward for the framework by aligning with modern JS standards and bringing broad consistency across the whole stack. Supports Angular, Vue, and you can even use TypeScript if you prefer.

FixCache: A GitHub App That Keeps Track of Bug-Prone Files From Commit History — An implementation of an idea from this academic paper about predicting the most fault prone ‘entities’ or files within a project.