The Daily Index — Wednesday, August 16, 2023 · TLDR Index

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A company built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. They used a platform called Rama to build it quickly and efficiently. Rama unifies computation and storage into a coherent model capable of building end-to-end backends at any scale in 100x less code than otherwise.

blog.redplanetlabs.com · 56 min

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THE DOWNSIDES OF MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE

A microservices architecture for application development in the cloud is an architectural approach that builds a software application as a collection of small (micro), loosely coupled services. Microservices came in with a great deal of momentum a few years ago, but now we’re seeing their drawbacks for applications on cloud platforms.

infoworld.com · 3 min

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EVERYTHING YOU WISH YOU COULD ASK YOUR MANAGER: MAIN TAKEAWAYS

This article jumps into actionable advice for salary negotiation, manager 1-1s, promotion, and more. It goes into how to show your value as an engineer and how to prepare yourself for promotion at all times.

open.substack.com · 5 min

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THE 5 PILLARS OF THRIVING TEAMS AND EXTRAORDINARY WORKPLACE CULTURE

Explore the five pillars that create extraordinary team cultures in organizations. These are the keys to boosting productivity, cultivating fulfillment, and fostering well-being among your team.

entrepreneur.com · 4 min

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NIM V2.0

Nim is a programming language that is good for everything, but not for everybody. It focuses on the imperative programming paradigm and enhances it with a macro system. Version 2.0 is an evolution (not revolution) of Nim, bringing ORC memory management as a default, along with many other new features and improvements.

nim-lang.org · 9 min

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SCI-FI IDEA BANK

One way to look at progress in tech is that we’re just working our way through ideas that sci-fi writers came up with a long time ago. So a bank of those ideas might be a roadmap to the future and a compass for those who want to build the sci-fi futures we were promised. This author has put together a list of 3,746 sci-fi ideas that are from various pieces of fiction and media.

notboring.co · 10 min

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A SENIOR ENGINEER/EM JOB SEARCH STORY

This interview with a software engineer based in New York with more than 15 years of experience looks at how they navigated the job market after being impacted by the industry-wide job cuts earlier this year.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 9 min

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT LANGUAGE FOR YOUR PROJECT

Selecting the appropriate programming language is a critical decision that can significantly impact the success of your software project. With an abundance of options available, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. This comprehensive guide explored practical insights, real-world examples, and actionable tips to help you navigate this crucial choice and ensure your project's success.

hackernoon.com · 2 min

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PROVIDER

Home buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and listing websites throughout the US have been stymied for five days by a cyberattack on a California company that provides a crucial online service used to track home listings. The attack, which commenced last Wednesday, targeted Rapottoni, a software and services provider that supplies Multiple Listing Services to regional real estate groups nationwide.

arstechnica.com · 3 min