💡📚 Articles

🛠️ Practical Use of Builder Pattern in Javascript (3 min read)

Building Objects Made Easy: The Builder Pattern in Programming.

💡 The right feature at the right place (5 min read)

From Library to Infrastructure: A Guide for Architects on Where to Place Features in Your System.

🛠️ What's a framework? All about software frameworks (7 min read)

Streamline Your Web Development: The Benefits and Types of Frameworks

💻 System Design: What is system design? (1 min read)

Get ready to learn about the importance of system design in building coherent and efficient systems for your business or organization!

👤 Introduction of Facade Pattern in Javascript (3 min read)

Let's learn about the Facade Pattern in programming and how it can help prevent tightly coupled APIs causing bugs, with a friendly building analogy and a customer service example. We'll explore how to implement the Facade Pattern in a contrived example using Axios and then update it to use Fetch, making our code cleaner, modular, and easily maintainable. 🏢✨

🏭 Boost Your Code and Efficiency with the Factory Pattern (8 min read)

Boost your code efficiency with the Factory Pattern! Learn how to create a stable and easily maintainable application that meets future needs by using factories to create a loosely coupled system and separate code that can vary from the remaining part of the codebase. This blog post covers the importance of analysis and refactoring of code to improve the quality of the application.

🤔 What is Solution Architecture? (4 min read)

This blog post provides an introduction to Solution Architecture and the different types of architectures used to design technology solutions to solve business problems.

🧱🤔 Monolithic vs. microservices architectures (5 min read)

Comparing the pros and cons of monolithic & microservices architectures - which is best for your project?

🐇 RabbitMQ: An Introduction to Message Queuing, Protocols, and Policies (8 min read)

Exploring RabbitMQ: Message Queuing, Protocols, and Policies for Building Distributed Systems

⚙️ Finite State Machine and Behavior Tree Fusion (4 min read)

Combining the best aspects of finite state machines and behavior trees to create advanced game AI structures - an experimental approach.

📰 News

💸 Investor Mark Suster says a “handful” of bad actors in VC destroyed SVB

Investor Mark Suster believes that a few bad actors within the VC community triggered the panic that led to the closure of Silicon Valley Bank, and that diversifying where they hold their money could have protected portfolio companies.

👋 Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning, and will be replaced by Dan Clancy, who has been with the company since 2019.

🤖 The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4

Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing chatbot has been secretly running on OpenAI's newly announced GPT-4 model for the past six weeks, according to a blog post from Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's head of consumer marketing.

🛑 Virgin Orbit pauses all operations

Virgin Orbit will pause all operations and furlough almost all employees due to worsening financial woes following a failed January launch, with the company's long-term financial sustainability having long been questioned.

🛡️ FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages

The FCC has finalized rules requiring mobile carriers to block robotext messages that are likely to be illegal, with the first rule requiring the blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers, and carriers will also have to establish a point of contact for text senders so the senders can inquire about blocked texts, while the FCC is seeking public comment on further proposals to require providers to block texts from entities the FCC has cited as illegal robotexters.

💻 Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year

UK-based startup DeepGreen is saving a British public swimming pool £20,000 ($24,000) annually and cutting carbon emissions by 25.8 tons by using waste heat from its machine learning- and AI-focused data centre to warm its water. DeepGreen is paying the Exmouth Leisure Centre for the electricity used by its centre and is giving away the heat for free. The company plans to set up seven other UK facilities by 2023.

🚫 National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science

The National Academies of Science have released a report that calls for scientists and research funders to stop thinking of genetics in terms of race, instead using scientifically relevant descriptions and recognizing the complex mixture of genetic, social, and environmental factors that shape populations. The report also recommends engaging with the communities being studied, and restoring recognition of the importance of environmental factors in shaping these populations.

💻 UK to invest £900M in supercomputer in bid to build own 'BritGPT'

The UK government plans to invest £900m in a new supercomputer as part of its artificial intelligence strategy, in order to build its own "BritGPT" and not fall behind China in areas such as cybersecurity and healthcare.

🚁 Zipline announces new delivery drone that precisely lowers a tethered 'droid'

Zipline has launched a new drone delivery platform, called Platform 2 (P2) Zip, capable of delivering packages precisely to small targets within 10 minutes and using a tethered mini-drone, or "delivery droid," to make the final drop.

👋🏼 Meta winds down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook

Meta is winding down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook to focus on other ways to support creators, people, and businesses, such as MetaPay and Reels tipping feature called Gifts.

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