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01GENERAL

02ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

YOU DON'T NEED A DEDICATED CACHE SERVICE - POSTGRESQL AS A CACHE

This article explores how to leverage the features of PostgreSQL to turn it into a fully featured, efficient caching service. By doing so, you can eliminate the need to operate and manage an additional service for a single task. While the performance may not match that of specialized cache services, the extent of performance degradation will vary based on your data type and usage patterns. The article also offers a set of queries to assist you in assessing system performance.

martinheinz.dev5 min read

03OPINIONS & ADVICE

04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

OPENTOFU

OpenTofu is an open-source tool for building and managing infrastructure safely and efficiently. It can handle both popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

github.comGitHub repository

SHUTTLE

Shuttle is a Rust-native cloud development platform that lets you deploy your Rust apps for free. It comes with features that improve developer productivity. It has first-class support for popular Rust frameworks, automatic resource provisioning, and scalable hosting.

github.comGitHub repository

CSS SCOPE INLINE

CSS Scope Inline allows web developers to scope inline style tags in pure vanilla CSS. It has no dependencies. CSS Scope Inline is an alternative to Tailwind CSS.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

SECURITY WEAKNESSES OF COPILOT GENERATED CODE IN GITHUB

A recent study found that 35.8% of Github Copilot-generated code snippets contain security weaknesses. The most frequent security issues include OS Command Injection, Use of Insufficiently Random Values, and Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions, with 11 of them being part of the 2022 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top-25 list. The study emphasizes the importance of cautious code review and security checks when using AI-generated code in software projects.

arxiv.org33 min read