Aug 24, 2021

[Developer Digest - Issue #4] Horizon Workrooms, Active Metadata Platform, Open App Markets Act

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Big week for $FB - within a month after betting Facebook’s future on the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg launches VR remote work app called Horizon Workrooms in open beta. Workrooms were a part of a bigger umbrella project Facebook is building for Oculus called Horizon, also the company has indicated that Horizon will eventually be a platform for other developers to build upon. In other news, FB developers has created an open source PCI Express card that tells the time to the microsecond, this accurate time keeping enables more advanced infrastructure management across the data centers.

.. and Other Headlines This Week —

Tesla Bot - Elon Musk wants to build a humanoid robot capable of performing tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring like going to the store to buy groceries. | Read more
GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces. So, the developers can start coding with minimal configuration, right from the web browser. Along with moving to Github Codespaces, Microsoft launched GitHub Discussions; Code scanning and secret scanning; and new collaboration tools for GitHub Private Instances | Read more.
Postman API Platform has 17 million developers, has now raised its Series D funding of $225 million led by Insight Partners. | Read more.
Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey 2021.
A new bill called the Open App Markets Act, would favor a few rights that could benefit app developers tired of handing 30% of their earnings to Apple and Google | Read more.

Editor's Pick —

Michael Dubakov 🧶

@mdubakov

[Thread ↓] How to start your own product (if you’re a programmer). https://t.co/d5wSgFR09k

8:32 PM - 12 Aug 2021

OpenAI proposes Triton 1.0, an open-source Python-like programming language as an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA to write highly efficient GPU code.
Uber’s Architecture and System Design from Nerd For Tech.
Pinterest grows, the number of services has also increased from hundreds to thousands, generating millions of data points every second, and growing. Here it’s engineering team explaining on how to build a scalable and high performant time-series database system.
The Modern Data Experience by Benn.substack.
dbt Labs’ Tristan Handy on the changing face of the data stack.

The architecture of an active metadata platform. (Image from Atlan / Prukalpa)

Prukalpa from Atlan writes the Anatomy of an Active Metadata Platform.
Alex Atallah, CTO and co-founder of OpenSea shares his insights on the societal and technical value of non-fungible tokens.
Service Architecture at SoundCloud - Part -1 | Part -2
How We Design Our APIs at Slack from Slack Engineering Team
Chaining styles with a JavaScript Proxy from Tobias Ahlin
Patrick Pale shares his experience on his 3 Years of Projects as a Software Consultant.
Why Don’t Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by Matthew Dean
Building Cost-Efficient Open Source Big Data Platform at Uber from Uber Engineering
The State of Data Infrastructure & Analytics Report 2021 from Work-Bench
Algolia New Search Architecture on how it has the capacity to handle an infinite amount of queries - Part 1
Use Spreadsheets Everywhere! by Justin Etheredge.
Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh from Netflix Technology Blog.
From Data-Driven to Driving Data— The dysfunctions of Data Engineering from MrTrustworthy.
Reverse Engineering The Stream Deck by Den Delimarsky
[Product Spotlight] CRANQ is a low-code IDE that provides component authoring, with a lot of reusability. Its focus on standardized data types and ports now raised a pre-seed £1 million funding from Venrex and Profounders | Read now.
Product Hunt Engineering Principles.

Collaborative Single Player Mode (Image from ProductHunt)

Advancing Your Career—

Introduction to Deep Learning by Sebastian Raschka.
AWS re/Start - full-time, 12-week free cohort program and prepares individuals for careers in cloud computing | Learn more
Engineering Career Series from Yelp Engineering team | Read more
10 Coding Bootcamps You Should Check Out.
Learn how to apply ML to build a production-grade product and deliver value, with Made with ML.
How ML Skills Can Advance Your Career, from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification | Learn more
Becoming a Software Engineer at Microsoft by Ela Moscicka.

Events / Coding Challenges—

August LeetCoding Challenge 2021 - Week - 4.
Cloudflare Developer Summer Challenge- where developers are challenged to build an application using at least two of the products from the Cloudflare developer platform | Deadline: November 1st, 2021, register here.
Women in SaaS Summit, join 15+ women SaaS leaders from companies like Twilio, GitHub, AWS, | Click here to attend on-demand on 8 Sept 2021.
Okta Identity Early Access Hackathon 2021 - Build with Okta Identity Engine Limited GA release. Deadline: Sep 14, 2021, register here.

Random—

History of Silicon Valley: 1891-1956

Google AI’s Dataset Exploration Case Study with Know Your Data

An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia

Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking

Thank you, and I’ll see you next week! :)

Techstars Startup Digest Developer is curated by:

Swathi Dharshna - Developer Partnership & Community
swathi.dharshna@startupdigestmail.com

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