TLDR Web DevAugust 31, 2023

TLDR WEB DEV 2023-08-31

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01ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

TRANSACTIONS ACROSS DATA STORES

These days, it's pretty common for a single application to use multiple data stores. Building robust apps with multiple data stores is tricky because it's hard to coordinate operations across those stores. A new protocol named Epoxy makes coordination easier by providing ACID transactions across data stores. Epoxy uses a single transactional "primary database", like Postgres, to coordinate transactions among itself and multiple potentially non-transactional "secondary stores", like MongoDB.

petereliaskraft.net5 min read

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.io23 min read

02OPINIONS & ADVICE

HOW TO PASS A CODING INTERVIEW WITH ME

This cheat sheet contains 22 tips on how to pass a programming challenge interview. While simple tips can’t replace skill and practice, they can help you calm your nerves, avoid silly mistakes, and showcase the best of your ability. Most of the tips are easy to implement and will help increase the number of interviews that you pass.

robertheaton.com13 min read

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.io8 min read

03LAUNCHES & TOOLS

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.build6 min read

VIZLY

Vizly lets you query your database in plain English. It runs fully on-premise, with no data leaving your machine.

vizly.fyiTool

04MISCELLANEOUS

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.com17 min read

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.com7 min read