💡📚 Articles

👨‍💻 Next.js is a backend framework (4 min read)

Is Next.js the Best Backend for Your React App? Exploring the Functionality of Backend Frameworks and Comparing Next.js to Others.

🏗️ Building Maintainable and Scalable Express Applications with Clean Architecture (6 min read)

"Build Better Express Applications with Clean Architecture: Introduction and Principles" - Learn how to organize your Express code for maintainability and scalability using clean architecture principles in this informative blog post.

🔧 The “Swiss army knife” every software developer should have under your belt (part 1). (6 min read)

Learn essential books for becoming a great software engineer with this blog post - Clean Code, The Clean Coder, Refactoring and Design Patterns - to write clean and maintainable code, improve professionalism, collaborate with team members and advance your career.

🚰 Mastering the Pipes and Filters Architecture (5 min read)

Mastering the Pipes and Filters Architecture: A Powerful Tool for creating modular and scalable Data Processing Systems

🤯 The self-inflicted denial-of-service (DDoS) attack (3 min read)

How a small code mistake caused a billion dollar company's outage and how you can avoid it with the Steady State pattern.

🔁💻 Consistency and Availability in data intensive applications (3 min read)

Achieving Consistency and Availability in Data-Intensive Applications: Understanding CAP Theorem and Distributed Systems

🔍 Reverse Engineering the Blueprint: Uncovering the Architectural Decisions That Define Our Software (6 min read)

Unlocking the Secrets of Matplotlib's Architecture: Design Choices, Performance & Functionality Compared with Plotly and Bokeh

🧐 State Management Is Easy Now!? An Introduction to Observable Store (6 min read)

Simplify Your Angular App's State Management with Observable Store

🕵️‍♂️ How we migrated an entire AWS Organization to a new one, without anyone noticing. (5 min read)

Migrating Your AWS Organization from One MSP to Another: A Guide to a Smooth Process

🌟 Building Serverless Applications That Scale The Perfect Amount (10 min read)

Designing for Scale: Small, Medium, and Large Serverless Architectures

📰 News

🔮 PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit

Venture capital and private equity database PitchBook has launched VC Exit Predictor, an AI-powered tool trained on PitchBook data to predict the likelihood of a startup being acquired, going public or remaining private, with a 74% accuracy rate according to back-testing. However, there are concerns over the limitations and biases of predictive algorithms in the face of black swan events such as a pandemic or global conflict, and investors are urged not to rely exclusively on such tools.

💔 AWS takes a hit of Amazon layoffs

Amazon's cloud division, AWS, was hit with layoffs as part of the company's latest round of job cuts, with around 10% of today's total coming from AWS, as the company looks to cut costs and optimize growth amid a slowing cloud infrastructure market.

🕵️‍♂️ Vulnerability found in Samsung’s Exynos chipsets, affecting some Android devices

Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to turn off voice calling to protect themselves from critical vulnerabilities that allow skilled hackers to compromise their devices by making a specially crafted call to their number, affecting devices that use the Exynos Modem 5123, Exynos Modem 5300, Exynos 980, Exynos 1080, Exynos Auto T5123 chipsets made by Samsung’s semiconductor division.

🤹‍♂️ Microsoft wants changing default apps in Windows to be less of a mess

Microsoft is planning to make it easier for users to change default app settings in future versions of Windows 11, with a "principled approach" that includes a consistent "deeplink URI" and a pop-up notification. However, the changes also serve as a gentle rebuke to developers who handle things differently, such as Chrome and Firefox, who automatically pin themselves to the taskbar upon installation without asking. These new features will be added to Windows "in the coming months."

💤 Boring dystopia is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a wimple

The term “boring dystopia” is being used to describe the mundane but quietly nightmarish ways in which our society is changing, from the infantilisation by technology to the equation of time with capital, and is a reminder that the end of the world could arrive quietly but corrosively, according to an opinion piece in The Guardian. The author cites dystopian television show “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a prime example of such developments.

📚 The Internet Archive is defending its digital library in court today

The Internet Archive and book publishers will attend a court hearing today that could determine the future of library e-books, deciding whether libraries must rely on publishers' temporary digital licenses or whether they can scan and lend copies of their own tomes through its Open Library program.

🎮 Netflix wants to make its games ‘playable on every Netflix device that you have’

Netflix is working on a cloud gaming service to make its games more accessible across devices, according to Leanne Loombe, the company's VP of external games, although the service is still in its early stages and the way Netflix's mobile games currently operate will remain the same for the foreseeable future.

💼 Twitch says it will lay off 400 employees

Twitch plans to lay off 400 employees as part of Amazon's plan to let go of 9,000 workers across divisions including its AWS cloud and advertising units, in an effort to improve Twitch's business outlook in the long term, according to new CEO Dan Clancy.

🐒 Fate of 1k trafficked lab monkeys at center of US investigation in limbo

Over 1,000 Cambodian long-tailed macaques trafficked to a primate centre in Houston, Texas, are at risk of being killed or resold if they are returned to Cambodia or kept in the lab, according to animal welfare groups. Talks between the US Department of Justice, animal rights group PETA and sanctuary group BornFreeUSA stalled last week when PETA discovered the monkeys were to be flown out of the country, leaving only three options: the animals could be removed to a sanctuary; they may be killed; or they could be re-exported. Charles River Laboratories, which owns the centre, is currently blocked from testing or selling the animals until it confirms to the DoJ that they are captive bred.

🤦‍♂️ Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers (2020)

Google has notified some users of its Google Photos service that a technical issue between November 21st and November 25th last year resulted in private videos being sent to strangers through its Takeout service, affecting a small number of users.

🔒 Fighting VPN criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say

Activists are calling for Big Tech to prioritize fighting the criminalization of VPNs, as Iranian authorities are increasingly targeting VPNs in an effort to control information and crack down on protesters.

🚫 Calls for ban on light-polluting mass satellite groups like Elon Musk’s Starlink

Astronomers are urging regulation of "big light" industry and a ban on low-altitude satellite mega-constellations to reduce light pollution and preserve the ability to study the night skies, warning that faint astrophysical signals may become increasingly hard to detect due to increasing nightsky brightness caused by the illumination of artificial satellites and associated space junk.

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