I've always been fascinated by our industry and the people working in it. Technologies, languages and disciplines within software development are so vast and wide that there's always something new to learn and explore. And at the same time, the more I explore the different avenues, the more I notice the similarities and how learning from one can benefit me working on another one. And what makes our industry particularly interesting is the openness towards sharing our learnings and experiences with each other.
Juhis is a developer community builder and board game enthusiast working from our Helsinki office. Passionate about learning, he is often seen in events and communities soaking up new information and meeting developers.
Many of us developers like to work on the command line. Tools like ls, find, grep and command history are ones we reach out to all the time but when was the last time you explored the alternatives? Ibraheem Ahmed collected a nice list of improved versions of the familiar tools on this GitHub repository. It's definitely worth checking out – what I did was aliasing the original commands to run the new tools so I didn't have to retrain my muscle memory.
Speaking of the command line, managing your secrets like API keys and passwords can be a challenge. In this article, Carl Tashian looks at various ways you may inadvertently leak your secrets when working on the command line and talks about solutions to do it properly.
The hot trending topic in early August in the frontend web development world was Google Chrome's decision to deprecate cross-origin alert functionality. It raised very interesting discussions about browser development, breaking the web, how people felt about the plans and also about how the way it was communicated didn't exactly go as smooth as butter. Chris Coyier's article on the topic takes a glance on the topic and its implications for the web.
Since late 2020, one of my pandemic hobbies has been learning Rust. After hearing praise and enthusiasm for the language from the lovely Rust community, I finally picked it up and it's been quite a learning experience for someone coming from a Python and Javascript background. One key thing that has helped me learn a ton has been the community and especially the This Week in Rust newsletter (also available via RSS!) that collects a ton of great articles, tutorials, videos and news from the Rust world every week.
We are partnering with React Finland again this year to bring a great conference to all of you. As is the way these days, the conference will be online from August 30th to September 3rd and you can join free to experience the event with an amazing lineup of speakers from the React and Javascript community. Come say Hi on the conference platform on Futurice's virtual booth or in Brella matchmaking platform if you're around.
Serverless has become the buzzword of the recent years. Most people think of Lambda when hearing Serverless. But Lambdas are literally just a tiny part in that field. Who would have thought that a tiny function goes big and become a crucial part of Software Development!
This TechWeeklies talk by John Nguyen reveals what you are capable of while using AWS Lambda, the Serverless Compute Service of Amazon. We will determine some architectural approaches such as Microservices, Monolith, or ETL/ELT, and try to answer whether you can do Machine Learning with Lambdas.
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