The Daily Index — Tuesday, July 16, 2024 · TLDR Index

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HOW WE TAMED NODE.JS EVENT LOOP LAG: A DEEPDIVE

Trigger encountered reliability and performance issues in its Node.js application due to event loop lag, which led to high CPU usage and crashes. To fix this, it fixed inefficient code, added pagination, and monitored event loop lag with OpenTelemetry. Moving forward, it will keep an eye on larger payloads, as a learning from this experience.

trigger.dev · 13 min

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HOW BOOKING.COM SCALED THEIR CUSTOMER REVIEW SYSTEM

Booking.com scaled its customer review system by sharding reviews across multiple servers using the internal ID of accommodations as the partition key. When it needed to add more machines to the cluster due to increased traffic, it used the Jump Hash Sharding algorithm to minimize the amount of data that needed to be rearranged. This algorithm guaranteed monotonicity, meaning that data was only transferred from old shards to new shards during resharding, avoiding unnecessary data movement.

blog.quastor.org · 6 min

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USE A WORK JOURNAL TO RECOVER FOCUS FASTER AND CLARIFY YOUR THOUGHTS

It can be hard to maintain focus, especially when switching between tasks. Keeping a work journal to record your thoughts and actions can help you think more clearly and regain context faster. Writing down what you're doing and reading the last few sentences when resuming work can be a helpful tool for improving focus.

fev.al · 5 min

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THE GHOST JOBS HAUNTING YOUR CAREER SEARCH

Ghost jobs are job postings that companies don't intend to fill. Companies post ghost jobs for various reasons like wanting to hire eventually, maintaining a talent pool, or creating a false impression of company growth. To avoid ghost jobs, job seekers should be wary of vague job descriptions, old listings, and companies with little online presence.

stackoverflow.blog · 6 min

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surveyjs.io

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SAFEGUARDING APP HEALTH AND CONSUMER EXPERIENCE WITH METRIC-AWARE ROLLOUTS

DoorDash uses metric-aware rollouts to automatically detect and address app quality degradation during experiment rollouts. This new feature allows for faster response to issues and a much better customer experience by automatically pausing rollouts and alerting experiment owners when app quality degradation is detected.

doordash.engineering · 9 min

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IT'S ABOUT TIME I TRIED TO EXPLAIN WHAT PROGRESSIVE ENHANCEMENT ACTUALLY IS

Progressive enhancement is a design and development principle where a website is built in layers, starting with a solid baseline experience for all users and progressively adding enhancements based on browser capabilities. This approach prioritizes functionality and accessibility for all users, regardless of their device or browser, and uses JavaScript as an enhancement rather than a requirement. This is the opposite of graceful degradation, where a "perfect" experience is designed and then broken down for less capable browsers, potentially resulting in a broken user interface.

piccalil.li · 9 min

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IS TYPESCRIPT JUST A LINTER?

TypeScript is not just a linter but a typed language built on JavaScript, with the ability to infer types and act as a linter due to the presence of the 'any' type.

totaltypescript.com · 3 min

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I'M NOT A FAN OF STRLCPY(3)

The strlcpy function in C is inefficient - use memccpy, memcpy, or strdup instead.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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THE GRAYING OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY NEEDS FRESH BLOOD

The open source community needs to attract younger developers to maintain and improve existing projects as many experienced programmers are aging and burning out.

theregister.com · 4 min