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01GENERAL

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DEV TEAM

The Wiz research team

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02ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

8 BEST PRACTICES FOR REACT COMPONENT DESIGN

React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces. One of the reasons it gained so much popularity is its Component-Based Architecture. React encourages building UI in reusable components, allowing developers to build complex user interfaces more efficiently. This article explores 10 best practices that will help you write cleaner, more maintainable, and reusable React components.

dev.to4 min read

BRINGING HDR VIDEO TO REELS

Video quality used to diminish when uploaded to Facebook/Instagram. This is no longer the case. This article walks through how the video infrastructure team at Meta brought HDR video to Reels at scale. Some challenges included dealing with different device capabilities and image formats and accurate tone mapping.

engineering.fb.com10 min read

HOW REACT 18 IMPROVES APPLICATION PERFORMANCE

React 18 has introduced concurrent features that fundamentally change the way React applications can be rendered. This article explores how these latest features impact and improve application performance.

vercel.com12 min read

03OPINIONS & ADVICE

A DEVELOPER’S GUIDE TO PROMPT ENGINEERING AND LLMS

This article tells the story of GitHub's work with large language models (LLMs) to help other developers learn how to best make use of the technology. It describes at a high level how LLMs function and how to build LLM applications. The article uses GitHub Copilot code completions as a case example of an LLM-based application.

github.blog20 min read

PROGRAMMERS SHARE TIPS AND TRICKS FOR WORKING WITH AI

AI systems tend to hallucinate and produce incorrect code. There are “best practices” for using AI, such as using prompt engineering techniques and knowing which question to ask. It’s important to use tools wisely and rely on them as just tools, not things that do the entire job for you.

thenewstack.io7 min read

WHY ENGINEERS SHOULD FOCUS ON WRITING

Engineers should write in order to become better engineers. Writing helps people identify mistakes, learn things in a deeper manner, and organize thoughts in a coherent way. The only way to get better at writing is to keep doing it.

yieldcode.blog4 min read

04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

CODE INTERPRETER API

A LangChain implementation of the ChatGPT Code Interpreter.

github.comGitHub repository

UPTIME KUMA

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool.

github.comGitHub repository

SUPERAGENT

Superagent is a powerful tool that simplifies the configuration and deployment of large language model agents to production. It provides a range of features and functionalities to make it easier for developers to build, manage, and deploy AI agents to production with features such as built in memory, document retrieval via vector DBs, powerful tools, webhooks, and cron jobs.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

INTERESTING LEARNINGS FROM OUTAGES

As an engineer, it’s never a good time for an outage and it’s always cheaper to learn from other people’s outages than to learn from your own. Luckily, many tech companies publish public postmortems following widespread outages. This article examines some of these reports and extracts valuable lessons we can learn from them.

open.substack.com18 min read

4 REASONS WHY META IS ALL-IN ON OPEN SOURCE AI

Why does Meta keep releasing open-source models? What is their incentive? Some possibilities include attracting and retaining top AI talent, building goodwill among developers, and receiving feedback to improve its model.

primoh.net2 min read

3 REASONS WHY TEAMS MOVE AWAY FROM AWS LAMBDA

This article dives into the three main reasons why some teams move away from AWS Lambda to lower-level computing abstractions. It also covers how you can migrate smoothly from Amazon Lambda to functions running on Amazon EKS.

thenewstack.io6 min read