The Daily Index — Thursday, August 31, 2023 · TLDR Index

ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

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CONCURRENT DATA STRUCTURE DESIGN WALKTHROUGH

Concurrent data structure design is hard. This blog post offers a guided tour on constructing a special-purpose concurrent map that heavily favors reading of the map. The post walks readers through the design process while solving a real-world problem, with many code examples along the way.

questdb.io · 23 min

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KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON: THE ON-CALL PROCESS THAT WORKS

Being on-call can be stressful, but it’s better than the alternative of simple chaos when something goes wrong. Putting on-call processes in place can help engineers guide themselves when they are on-call while relieving the rest of the team from on-call pressures.

thenewstack.io · 8 min

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ASTRO 3.0

Astro 3.0 is the first major web framework to support the View Transitions API. Other release highlights include faster rendering performance, better image optimization, and optimized build output.

astro.build · 6 min

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MONEY IS POURING INTO AI. SKEPTICS SAY IT’S A ‘GRIFT SHIFT’

The move from crypto to artificial intelligence fueled the markets this year, but some are questioning how much of it is real. A company that wasn’t doing well renamed itself to “Applied Blockchain”, but a little too late. Luckily for them, ChatGPT came out a few months later. To boost their stock price, they renamed themselves “Applied Digital” and mentioned AI a few times in their earnings call, getting a hyped 450% increase in the public markets. While dollars are flowing in quickly to all things AI, it is yet to be seen whether these companies can even last.

institutionalinvestor.com · 17 min

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THE MYTH OF “OPEN SOURCE” AI

Efforts to make AI more “open” seem to have gained momentum in recent months. However, a new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.

wired.com · 7 min

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VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Microsoft is sunsetting Visual Studio for Mac.

devblogs.microsoft.com · 3 min

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INTRODUCING IMMORTAL OBJECTS TO PYTHON

Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects to Python. It allows objects to bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues for true parallelism.

engineering.fb.com · 5 min

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ANALYSIS OF OBFUSCATIONS FOUND IN APPLE FAIRPLAY

FairPlay comprises a set of algorithms created by Apple for digital rights management. This article runs daemons against FairPlay and goes through the findings.

nicolo.dev · 38 min