The Daily Index — Thursday, August 24, 2023 · TLDR Index

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

TLDR Web Dev

TLDR Web Dev

HOW GAMES TYPICALLY GET BUILT

This article introduces readers to the world of game development and compares it to the software engineering approaches at tech companies. The game development world is very different from the software development world. Video games are very complex pieces of software and are built in different conditions under different constraints than business applications. The article covers typical roles within game development, how games typically get built, and the game development lifecycle. While game development is different from web development, there are similarities that can help one become a better developer overall.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 16 min

TLDR Web Dev

USE WEB COMPONENTS FOR WHAT THEY’RE GOOD AT

Web components should not be used everywhere. Instead, they should be used for what they excel in. They can be used as glue code to prevent rewrites when moving to new frameworks (Yes, two frameworks can live on the same page). The downsides of web components include accessibility issues and various issues with server-side rendering.

nolanlawson.com · 3 min

TLDR Web Dev

INTRODUCING SAFECODER

Safecoder is a code assistant solution built for the enterprise that can be self hosted and allows you to build your own code LLMs.

huggingface.co · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

FITTING AI MODELS IN YOUR POCKET WITH QUANTIZATION

A Qualcomm expert breaks down some of the tools and techniques they use to fit Generative AI models on a smartphone. Quantization techniques like LoRA are the industry standard way to reduce model size. This article explains how this technique works in layman’s terms. It also explains how Qualcomm's open-source AI Model Efficiency Toolkit aids in this process.

stackoverflow.blog · 6 min

TLDR Web Dev

SLACK’S MIGRATION TO A CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE

A cellular architecture increases redundancy and reduces the blast radius of failures. Slack migrated from a monolithic architecture to a cellular architecture to take advantage of these benefits. This started because of an incident where Slack had trouble detecting an issue in its distributed system.

slack.engineering · 9 min

TLDR Web Dev

BEST RUST WEB FRAMEWORKS TO USE IN 2023

A deep dive into a wide variety of Rust web frameworks, including Axum, Actix, Rocket, Warp, Tide, Poem, and Pavex.

shuttle.rs · 12 min

TLDR Web Dev

PSA: ADD DIR="AUTO" TO YOUR INPUTS AND TEXTAREAS.

Add dir="auto" to your inputs and textareas. This enables automatic support of right-to-left languages like Arabic.

mough.xyz · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

STOP COVERING ALL THE COMPONENTS WITH INTEGRATION TESTS

You should not test all your classes and components in integration tests. Instead, only test high-level components that will initialize the child components so the tests can be run quicker.

dev.to · 2 min