The Daily Index — Wednesday, January 24, 2024 · TLDR Index

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TLDR Web Dev

FROM SLOW TO SIMD: A GO OPTIMIZATION STORY

A function within Sourcegraph's Code AI tool, Cody, was recently optimized to significantly increase its throughput and reduce memory usage. The function calculates the dot product of two vectors. The optimization journey involved various techniques like loop unrolling, bounds-checking elimination, quantization, and SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions.

sourcegraph.com · 10 min

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4 STRATEGIES FOR MIGRATING MONOLITHIC APPS TO MICROSERVICES

Best practices for migrating monolithic applications to microservices in containerized Kubernetes environments include understanding the monolith's dependencies, taking an incremental approach, loosely coupling microservices, and implementing end-to-end observability. DevOps teams are commonly under pressure to make this migration to optimize the software delivery life cycle, reduce fragility, and create shorter release cycles.

thenewstack.io · 6 min

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THE SKILL THAT GETS YOU FIRED OR PROMOTED: MANAGING UP

Managing up is the skill of influencing people who are more senior to you, such as your direct manager. Failing to deliver on promises and deadlines can lead to a lack of trust from your manager and potentially getting fired. To manage up effectively, it’s important to set realistic expectations, prioritize important promises, and communicate openly with peers.

leahtharin.com · 9 min

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HIRING ONLY SENIORS IS THE WORST POLICY IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY

Companies should hire more junior engineers as they bring fresh energy, motivation, and openness to new technologies to a team. Juniors are necessary for long-term excellence in software engineering. They should be paid fairly based on their skills and not just years of experience, or else companies may lose their best engineers over time.

open.substack.com · 6 min

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WHY IS MACHINE LEARNING 'HARD'?

Difficulty in machine learning (ML) is not primarily due to mathematics, but rather the need to build an intuition for selecting the right tools and debugging. Debugging in ML is exponentially harder than in standard software engineering due to multiple dimensions of potential issues involving algorithms, implementation, data, and model correctness. The long debugging cycles in ML, which can be days or even weeks, make parallel experimentation necessary.

ai.stanford.edu · 9 min

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BOTTLENECK OF SCALEUPS #06: ONBOARDING

A well-structured onboarding process not only grants access to new hires, but also integrates new employees socially and culturally. A bottleneck in the onboarding process can be identified by delays in accessing tools and systems, the inability of new developers to make production deployments quickly, newcomers feeling orphaned, excessive focus on individual work, resistance to change, slow completion of seemingly simple tasks, high turnover of newcomers, and documentation that can't answer new hires' questions. An optimized onboarding process maximizes the productivity of new employees.

martinfowler.com · 9 min

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UNBLOATING THE BUFFERS

Bufferbloat in computer networks can cause delays and glitches in internet traffic, particularly during activities like video calls. Bufferbloat occurs when network buffers fill up with data packets, causing increased latency. Active Queue Management (AQM) techniques like CAKE can be used to dynamically adjust and manage network queues, resulting in more stable and responsive network performance.

dgroshev.com · 5 min

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THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF OFFLINE SUPPORT

Full offline support can be supported through architectural decisions, including multi-storage loading for speed and local caching, grouped updates through an operations queue to optimize real-time interactions, and a UI status system to inform users about offline functionality.

pketh.org · 4 min

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MASTERING CRYPTOGRAPHY FUNDAMENTALS WITH NODE’S CRYPTO MODULE

An introduction to core concepts in cryptography using code examples with Node’s crypto module.

blog.yonatan.dev · 17 min

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