💡📚 Articles

💾 ACID Properties In Databases (2 min read)

Exploring the fundamentals of databases: ACID properties and how they work.

🤔 Wrap DB Transaction with Abstraction Golang (2 min read)

Learn how to use abstraction for database transactions in Flat Architecture with Golang for better maintainability and readability.

🔗 Another Way to Design Short URL Service (5 min read)

Discover an easier way to design a short URL service with AWS, and learn about the considerations and trade-offs involved in system design. Instead of building a complete system from scratch, leverage AWS S3 and Cloudfront to create a highly scalable and available short URL service.

🔌 Adapter pattern in TypeScript (3 min read)

Learn how to integrate third-party libraries using the adapter pattern in JavaScript.

👩‍💻 Scaling Software Architecture in Your Organization: A Practical Guide to Thinking Architecturally — Part II (5 min read)

This blog post explores strategies for scaling software architecture in an organization, including a federated model and technology radar, to help streamline adoption of new practices.

🗃️ Three ways to scale your Database (Replication vs Sharding vs Partitioning) (3 min read)

3 Proven Ways to Scale Your Database and Boost Performance

🤔 Mastering Strategy Pattern in PHP: 2 Real-World Use Cases (6 min read)

Mastering Strategy Pattern in PHP: 2 Real-World Use Cases, including best practices and examples for achieving separation of concerns and encapsulating algorithms into separate classes.

🏢💻🌐 Introducing the architecture & Deploying the public side (5 min read)

Building a Highly Available Application on AWS with Terraform - Part 1: Deploying the Public Infrastructure

📲 Unveiling the Power of Proxies for Mobile Clients (8 min read)

"Understanding Proxies: How They Keep Your Data Safe on Mobile" - Learn how to use proxy servers for improved privacy on mobile, the differences between proxies and VPNs, and the many shades of proxies available for use.

🔄 React Architectures: FLUX vs REDUX (5 min read)

Learn how to architect and structure your frontend project for clean and organized code with a great code flow using FLUX and Redux in the latest blog post.

📰 News

💰 HSBC acquires Silicon Valley Bank UK, says all depositors’ money is safe

HSBC is acquiring Silicon Valley Bank UK for a symbolic £1 in a last-minute deal that ensures continuity of banking services and protection for all depositors' money, with the acquisition expected to provide massive relief to the UK's technology sector.

💰 HSBC to buy SVB UK for £1

HSBC has agreed to buy Silicon Valley Bank's UK operations for £1 in a move arranged by the UK government to save British tech startups and investors from big losses after the US bank's collapse. The acquisition followed overnight talks between Downing Street, the Bank of England and HSBC bosses including CEO Noel Quinn, as authorities rushed to protect the finances of Silicon Valley Bank UK's 3,500 customers including venture capital investors and hundreds of tech startups that feared they would go bust if their deposits were wiped out.

🥗 Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, study suggests

A Mediterranean diet, rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats, could help reduce the risk of dementia by almost a quarter, according to research conducted in the UK using data from more than 60,000 individuals. The benefits were found to apply regardless of a person’s genetic risk for the condition. The findings could help pave the way for new preventive treatments, although the study’s authors have noted that further research will be required to confirm the results.

💪 South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash

South Korea's planned raise in its maximum weekly working hours to 69 has been put on hold after protests from millennials and generation Z who claimed that the move would damage their work-life balance and risk their health. President Yoon Suk-yeol has ordered government agencies to reconsider the measure and communicate better with the public, particularly with younger people. The proposed increase followed complaints from business groups that the current limit of 52 hours was hampering their ability to meet deadlines. Unions argued that the increase would simply force people to work longer hours.

🌜 The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia

Scientists are homing in on ways to boost the brain's cleaning system during deep sleep, which could ultimately help keep our brains healthier for longer and reduce the risk of dementia and other brain diseases. The glymphatic system is the biological "brain washing" function of sleep, which filters out toxins and is important for brain health. Scientists are investigating ways to optimise and reboot deep sleep as we age. The key is to focus on sleep quality, which means avoiding coffee, alcohol, exercise and electronic devices in the run-up to bed and maintaining a dark bedroom overnight.

💻 You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi

LLaMA, an open-source large language model, can now run on consumer-level hardware such as laptops, phones, and Raspberry Pi thanks to Meta's new AI text models, and it has the potential to become a pocket-sized Chat GPT competitor.

🌕 Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon

Samsung's "SpaceZoom" cameras, known for their ability to take detailed photos of the Moon, have been caught faking zoom photos of the Moon with computational processing, blurring the line of what is considered real versus fake imagery in the age of AI.

💰 T-Mobile is buying Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile for up to $1.35B

T-Mobile is acquiring Mint Mobile, which is partially owned by Ryan Reynolds, for up to $1.35 billion, in a deal that involves a cash and stock purchase of Mint's parent company and includes other companies, such as UltraMobile and Plum.

💬 Google shows off what ChatGPT would be like in Gmail and Google Docs

Google has unveiled plans to bring generative AI to Workspace, with features for Google Docs and Gmail that will eventually allow the AI to reply to emails and create presentations with just a text prompt, though the company has not yet announced a public launch date. The move is part of Google's larger plan to integrate Chat GPT-style generative text into every one of its products in response to the rise of AI-powered text.

💰 Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer

Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a massive supercomputer to help power OpenAI's Chat GPT chatbot and Bing AI bot, connecting thousands of Nvidia A100 chips and reworking server racks to build the hardware behind Chat GPT, demonstrating their commitment to throwing more money at the AI space.

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