📰 News

💰 AWS to Invest $12.7B in India

Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by 2030, creating 131,700 jobs, to scale up the AWS infrastructure in the key overseas market at a time when it has pared back several other services in the region.

🎨 Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History

Benjamin Balint's new biographical study explores the fascinating life and afterlife of Jewish writer and artist, Bruno Schulz, who attracted a smaller but more passionately devoted group of readers, including Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick and Nicole Krauss, propelling Schulz to be the quintessential writer’s writer, but ultimately leading to his tragic death in 1942. This review considers the events that made Schulz's contemporary reputation inseparable from the hijacking of his literary and artistic legacy and addresses the debates surrounding the ownership of his murals, his place of origin and the absurdity of the modern nation state.

❄ Blizzard is “confident” that Diablo IV’s launch servers can handle the load

Blizzard is confident that the launch of Diablo IV will not suffer from server issues that plagued the launch of its predecessor, citing recent beta tests and a "Server Slam" weekend as valuable insights into how the game's infrastructure will handle millions of early adopters.

👽 We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK

Despite decades of search for intelligent life in the cosmos, the Universe seems to be silent and solitary, yet this solitude can be a driving force for us to explore and expand our curiosity and imagination.

🍪 Google will disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024

Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024 as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative, allowing developers to assess their readiness for the change, while the full deprecation of third-party cookies is still set for the second half of 2024; with the release of Chrome 115 this July, Google will also be making Privacy Sandbox’s relevance and measurement APIs generally available to all Chrome users.

💵 “$15M of [OpenAI] donations can be traced definitively back to Musk“ (not $100M)

Elon Musk revised his previous claim of donating $100 million to OpenAI, now saying it was more likely around $50 million, following an investigation into the nonprofit’s finances and tax filings, revealing just $15 million of donations that could be traced back to Musk.

🐾 New animal family tree raises questions about the origin of nervous systems

A new animal family tree based on the arrangement of genes on chromosomes places sponges as more closely related to humans than some other animals with a nervous system, raising questions about the origin of nervous systems.

🙅 Companies in Apple’s repair program say they can’t compete with tech giant

Third-party repair companies in Australia and the US have criticised Apple's independent repair provider programme, stating that slow response times and high costs of parts make it almost impossible for them to be viable competitors, with many repairers waiting up to six months to join, and facing delays in the crediting process. Repairers have also said that delays in response times have made it increasingly less feasible to order parts upfront.

🤑 Disney’s absurdly expensive Star Wars hotel is shutting down

Disney World is closing down its Star Wars-themed hotel, the Galactic Starcruiser, in September due to unclear reasons, after just six months of operation.

💻 Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, the Internet pushes back

Google's addition of two new top-level domains, .zip and .mov, has raised concerns among security experts that scammers could take advantage of the domains to trick people into clicking on malicious links, potentially undoing years of work to prevent such links. These TLDs could be co-opted by threat actors who could register domain names that are used by others as file names to lead potential victims to their malicious content. 

💡📚 Articles

📊 Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting (2 min read)

Keep Your System Healthy with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting: Learn how to keep your system's data consistent with time through logging, analyzing, and alerting with this essential guide. And don't forget to check out our System Design Concepts repo for more insights on how to build a robust and efficient system.

💡 How to create a good High Level Design — HLD (12 min read)

Unlock Your Potential: Simple Tips for Personal Growth

🔌 Guice Multibindings: Leveraging the Power of Set and Map Bindings (3 min read)

Unlocking Dynamic Flexibility in Java with Guice Multibindings: Set and Map Bindings Explained

👨 Beginner's guide to AWS Solutions Architect Associate(SAA) certification. (2 min read)

Passing the AWS SAA-C02 Exam: A Beginner's Journey with CloudAcademy

🤔 Microservices: When to Use Them (5 min read)

"Microservices: When to Use Them and When Not to" - A guide to understanding the benefits and drawbacks of microservices architecture, and tips for deciding if it's the right approach for your application.

🤖 What are self integrating applications? (4 min read)

Say Goodbye to Expensive Integrations: The Future of Self-Integrating Applications

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