Flash lives on with WebAssembly

WebAssembly Used to Extend Life of Flash Legacy Content @InfoQ

Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020. The large amount of Flash content accumulated over the years is however not entirely lost. Flashpoint, the web game preservation project, should allow players to access over 30,000 web games and 2,000 web animations. Ruffle, a Flash emulator, and CheerpX, an x86 virtualization technology, both leverage WebAssembly to play .swf files in the browser.

AWS S3 HTTPS static website hosting

How to host a static website with https using amazon s3

S3 + CloudFront + ACM + domain (DNS)

"After you configure your bucket as a static website, you can access the bucket through the AWS Region-specific Amazon S3 website endpoints for your bucket. Website endpoints are different from the endpoints where you send REST API requests. For more information, see Website endpoints. Amazon S3 doesn't support HTTPS access for website endpoints. If you want to use HTTPS, you can use CloudFront to serve a static website hosted on Amazon S3. For more information, see Speeding up your website with Amazon CloudFront."

gRPC ASP.NET Core

gRPC ASP.NET Core - Shawn Wildermuth's Blog

gRPC Talk at netPonto User Group (2020) - YouTube

gRPC in ASP.NET Core slides

code @GitHub
PresentationDemos/NetPorto/2020 at master · shawnwildermuth/PresentationDemos

AWS QLDB: BMW use-case

377-why-are-customers-choosing-amazon-qldb - AWS Podcasts

AWS re:Invent 2019: Why you need a ledger database: BMW, DVLA, & Sage discuss use cases (BLC203) - YouTube

AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon QLDB: An engineer’s deep dive on why this is a game changer (DAT380) - YouTube

PowerPoint Presentation from re:invent

PowerPoint Presentation another one

Postman Learning Center

Home | Postman Learning Center

jq: JSON from CLI

jq
jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

often used with AWS CLI

stedolan/jq: Command-line JSON processor @GitHub

in portable C lang

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, GoLang

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | AI Podcast #109 with Lex Fridman - YouTube

#109 - Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | MIT | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

amazon.com/Brian-W.-Kernighan

Amazon.com: UNIX: A History and a Memoir eBook: Kernighan, Brian: Kindle Store

Brian Kernighan - Wikipedia

EV: 1400-HP Ford Mustang Mach-E

1400-HP Ford Mustang Mach-E Has 7 Motors, Stuns Even Ken Block

With seven motors and a targeted 1400 horsepower, the Mach-E 1400, the work of Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Ford, is built for thrill rides.

Austin, Texas: Tesla Gigafactory, Apple Factory

Tesla’s Next Gigafactory Will Be In Austin, Texas, And Musk Says It Will Be ‘Stunning’

Tesla will build its next Gigafactory near Austin, Texas

Tesla’s Next Gigafactory Will Be in Texas



Tesla picks Austin, Texas, for $1 billion 'Gigafactory' | kvue.com
5000 jobs

Apple: $1B, 5000 jobs

Google Dataset Search

Google Dataset Search

Amazon car insurance

in India
Amazon adds car insurance to its absurd list of services | Engadget

Dgraph :Graph DB with GraphQL interface, in GoLang

Dgraph - The Native GraphQL Database With a Graph Backend

Dgraph - A distributed graph database written in Go - GopherCon SG 2017 - YouTube

Dgraph GraphQL - Dgraph GraphQL

source (Apache 2.0 license)
dgraph-io/dgraph: Native GraphQL Database with graph backend


DB-Engines Ranking - popularity ranking of graph DBMS

VS Code: Local History

Local History - Visual Studio Marketplace

A visual source code plugin for maintaining local history of files.
Every time you modify a file, a copy of the old contents is kept in the local history. At any time, you can compare a file with any older version from the history. It can help you out when you change or delete a file by accident.

AWS Copilot CLI for ECS

Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announced AWS Copilot, a command line interface tool that helps customers develop, release, and operate containerized applications on AWS. With a single command, AWS Copilot creates all infrastructure and artifacts required to run production-ready service on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, including task definitions, image repositories, and AWS resources like load balancers, deployment pipelines. With AWS Copilot, users can focus on developing their applications rather than setting up infrastructure.

How to GraphQL

How to GraphQL - The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL

The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL
The free and open-source tutorial to learn all around GraphQL to go from zero to production.

"GraphQL is the bacon that'll make everything better" (JS Party #134) |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

• Intro to GraphQL
• What is REST
• Github GraphQL API
• GraphQL Schema and Types
• Apollo Codegen
• Nest.js GraphQL
• Hypermedia Driven RESTful APIs
• Securing your GraphQL api against malicious queries
• GraphQL REST Proxy
• Directives are underrated
• Swagger
• Github API Mutations
• Apollo Error Handling
• 200 OK! Error Handling in GraphQL
• How to GraphQL
• Introduction to GraphQL
• GraphQL and Gatsby
• GraphQL Fragments
• Relay

recursive program generator with 128 languages

mame/quine-relay: An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages

This is a Ruby program that generates Rust program that generates Scala program that generates ...(through 128 languages in total)... REXX program that generates the original Ruby code again.

Serverless podcast

very informative interviews


Episodes - Serverless Chats Podcast

MemSQL for ML/AL, not just in-memory db

Operationalizing ML/AI with MemSQL with Nikita Shamgunov, CEO of MemSQL (Practical AI #94) |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog


MemSQL is The Database of Now™ Powering Modern Applications and Analytical Systems

MemSQL is the cloud-native operational database built for speed and scale. Tested and proven as the world’s fastest database for ML, AI, & operational analytics. ANSI SQL. Fast Query Response. Hybrid Flexibility. Multi-Cloud. Fast Ingest. Highly Scalable.

MemSQL - Wikipedia

Rather than the traditional B-tree index, MemSQL uses skiplists optimized for fast, lock-free processing in memory. Due to its fully distributed nature, MemSQL is fully scalable, and it achieves high speeds for time-critical processing of large data sets. MemSQL is compatible with the MySQL wire protocol, meaning most MySQL and MariaDB drivers and products work on MemSQL.

closed source, C++

AWS RDS Proxy

Amazon RDS Proxy | Highly Available Database Proxy | Amazon Web Services

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon RDS Proxy

RDS Proxy allows applications to pool and share connections established with the database. This helps servers that do not currently rely on a connection pool and often open and close database connections, exhausting database memory and compute resources. Serverless architectures will use the relational databases more efficiently and the proxy will improve application scalability

The Good Parts of AWS

The Good Parts of AWS

"This is not your typical reference book. It doesn't cover all of AWS or all its quirks. Instead, we want to help you realize which AWS features you’d be foolish not to use. Features for which you almost never need to consider alternatives. Features that have passed the test of time by being at the backbone of most things on the internet."

The Good Parts of AWS with Daniel Vassallo - Software Engineering Daily

ASP.NET Core API Endpoints

ASP.NET Core API Endpoints with Steve Smith @ .NET Rocks! vNext

ardalis/ApiEndpoints: A project for supporting API Endpoints in ASP.NET Core web applications. @GitHub

Windows Terminal 1.0

Windows Terminal 1.0 | Windows Command Line

C++
microsoft/terminal: The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! @GitHub

Windows Terminal 1.0 with Kayla Cinnamon - RunAsRadio

RISC + RAID

an inspirational interview with co-creator of processor and storage architectures used in most of computers today.

#104 - David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | MIT | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

"David Patterson is a Turing award winner and professor of computer science at Berkeley. He is known for pioneering contributions to RISC processor architecture used by 99% of new chips today and for co-creating RAID storage. The impact that these two lines of research and development have had on our world is immeasurable. He is also one of the great educators of computer science in the world. His book with John Hennessy “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach” is how I first learned about and was humbled by the inner workings of machines at the lowest level."

David Patterson (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach: Hennessy, John L., Patterson, David A.: 9788178672663: Amazon.com: Books

ACM: Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition | Guide books

Slack & AWS vs. Microsoft Teams

Slack’s new integration deal with AWS could also be about tweaking Microsoft | TechCrunch

"Slack will use Amazon Chime for its call feature, while reiterating its commitment to use AWS as its preferred cloud provider to run its infrastructure. At the same time, Amazon has agreed to offer Slack as an option for all internal communications.

“Some parts of Amazon had licensed Slack before, but this is the first time it will be offered as an option to all employees,”"

Video Conferencing & Online Meetings - Amazon Chime

C++ => Rust @ Microsoft

Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming – The New Stack

"Ryan Levick, Microsoft cloud developer advocate, during the AllThingsOpen virtual conference last month, explaining, in a virtual talk, why Microsoft is gradually switching to Rust to build its infrastructure software, away from C/C++. And it is encouraging other software industry giants to consider the same.

C++ is not a memory safe language and no one would really pretend that it is,” he said.

In fact, Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software. The industry sorely needs to move to a performant, memory-safe language for its low-level system work. And the best choice on the market today is Rust

In fact, Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software"

Tesla Model Y review by Jay Leno

Tesla Model Y - Jay Leno’s Garage - YouTube

Netflix vs. Blockbuster, the real story

Why Netflix beat Blockbuster - Vox

"When Netflix launched in 1997, it was a tiny movies-by-mail operation, run out of a storefront in a Silicon Valley stripmall. It was going up against Blockbuster, a $6 billion behemoth that owned the movie rental business.

Now Blockbuster is gone, and Netflix is a $20 billion business, one so dominant that giant companies like Disney and AT&T are remaking themselves to chase after it.

Even if you don’t know this story, you know this story: Scrappy digital upstart comes out of nowhere, topples the incumbent, and becomes unstoppable.

Except ... this one almost didn’t happen. Blockbuster, it turns out, ended up doing a very good job of fighting back against Netflix and might well have won, but it made some fundamental mistakes that ended up dooming its future."

Land of the Giants - Vox podcast

Land of the Giants | Podbay

Node-RED Low Code

Low Code for the Node.js Developer - Nick O Leary, IBM - YouTube

Node-RED



Node RED Programming Guide – Programming the IoT

WASM performance advantage

To WASM or not to WASM? - DEV

The performance gain we measured with Rust (both implementations) is up to 20% compared to the baseline JavaScript implementation - measured on average.
This may sound like a win for Rust, but is actually a very small gain compared to the efforts required.

Hong Kong's internet behind great firewall

The internet is changing drastically for Hong Kong’s citizens | MIT Technology Review

"Effectively, this brings Hong Kong into China’s Great Firewall, a tightly controlled and censored version of the internet that blocks most foreign internet tools and mobile apps. Foreign companies are permitted to operate only if they comply."

Software is Hard for "cars that think"

Volkswagen’s E-Car Rollout Slips on Software - IEEE Spectrum

The all-electric ID.3 is the first in a company-wide array of cars to use a new, unified electronic architecture

Volkswagen’s European customers will be able to make binding preorders for one of the 30,000 limited 1st Edition ID.3 fully-electric compact cars. It’s the first fruit of the company’s EUR 60 billion strategy to become the world’s dominant manufacturer of all-electric and hybrid vehicles.


IEEE "Cars that Think"

gRPC with Blazor WebAssembly

How to Utilize gRPC-Web From a Blazor WebAssembly Application

"It is currently impossible to implement the gRPC HTTP/2 spec in the browser because there are no browser APIs with enough fine-grained control over requests. Well the good news is that gRPC-Web is here for the rescue!!!

gRPC-Web is a standardized protocol that solves this problem and makes gRPC usable in the browser. gRPC-Web brings many of gRPC’s great features, like small binary messages and contract-first APIs, to modern browser apps. In this post I will demonstrate consuming a gRPC-Web endpoint from within a Blazor WebAssembly application. Along the way I will also demonstrate how gRPC-Web can achieve more efficient payload sizes compared to Restful endpoints."

AWS Virtual Workshop

Build a Serverless Web App for a Theme Park | AWS Virtual Workshop

Learn how to build a complete serverless web application for a popular theme park called Innovator Island. The theme park is rolling out a mobile app that provides thousands of visitors with wait times, photo opportunities, notification alerts, and language translation for visitors who need it. In this series, you'll get hands-on experience building a scalable serverless application with a single-page application (SPA) front-end that delivers a feature-rich user experience.

SingularityNET: Global distributed AI (+ blockchain, robots etc)

Home - SingularityNET

SingularityNET lets anyone create, share, and monetize AI services at scale. The world’s decentralized AI network

+ "Sophia" AI robot

excellent podcast interview:

#103 - Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | MIT | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Dr. Ben Goertzel and Vitalik Buterin Discussion at the Crypto Chicks Blockchain & AI conference - YouTube

gRPC + Postman?

gRPC + Postman = Jason Newman - Medium

... complaints from our transition to gRPC has been the inability to use Postman for our gRPC services. The existing tooling has not met the ease of use the Postman providing for interacting with our traditional REST APIs. We have tried the gRPC CLI, grpc-gateway, and omgRPC

one solution:

adding a JSON codec to gRPC servers. While amazing, it wasn’t initially clear how this could be used to improve development workflows, especially given the reluctance of Postman to support HTTP/2 and the required binary header for the gRPC payload (whether a protocol buffer or JSON payload).

proof of concept proxy which handles the protocol conversion from HTTP to HTTP/2 and also calculates and inserts the gRPC payload header. On the response , it trims the header off of the gRPC response and converts the gRPC status code to a HTTP status code. The introduction of this proxy allows us to once again use the incredible collaboration and templating features of Postman with our gRPC services

jnewmano/grpc-json-proxy: gRPC Proxy for Postman like tools


uw-labs/bloomrpc: GUI Client for GRPC Services


Intuitive CLIs for gRPC APIs - YouTube


Postman: API Development with Abhinav Asthana - Software Engineering Daily


Postman Company Profile - Office Locations, Competitors, Revenue, Financials, Employees, Key People, Subsidiaries | Craft.co
valuation: $2B
funding: $208M
employees: 265

"Postman is a company operating an API development platform. It provides executable descriptions of an API, workspaces for team collaboration, and built-in tools that enable developers to run requests, test, debug, create mock servers, monitor, run automated tests, and document the API."

API platform Postman delivers $150M Series C on $2B valuation | TechCrunch

Abhinav Asthana | LinkedIn

GoLang is boring and efficient...

Go is Boring...And That’s Fantastic! | Capital One

Building a high performance JSON parser

Golang Weekly Issue 319: July 3, 2020

HW improvements are getting slower

When you look at single core performance, the fastest 2019 Core i9 is less than twice as fast as the fastest 2011 Core i7. Instead of getting faster, we're adding more cores to CPUs. When you look at multi-core performance, it's a little better, slightly more than 2x faster.

• It’s not just CPU performance that is limiting us. Forrest Smith wrote a fantastic blog post on the impact of RAM and RAM access patterns on performance. The highlights are:
• RAM is much slower than CPUs, and the gap is not getting better, even though CPUs aren't getting much faster.
• RAM might be random access, but if you actually use it that way, it's slow. You can read around 40 gigabytes per second from RAM on a modern Intel CPU if the data is sequential. If you do a random read, it’s a little less than half a gigabyte per second.
• Code with lots of pointers is especially slow. Quoting Forrest: “Sequentially summing values behind a pointer runs at less than 1 GB/s. Random access, which misses the cache twice, runs at just 0.1 GB/s. Pointer chasing is 10 to 20 times slower. Friends don't let friends use linked lists.” Ouch.

Markdown: CommonMark

CommonMark

Markdown Reference

We're switching to CommonMark - Meta Stack Exchange

Markdown - Wikipedia
CommonMark - Wikipedia

HEY email tool vs Apple App Store

Take a tour of HEY - YouTube

Apple rejects Hey.com App Store updates, mandating in-app subscription - The Verge

"Apple is threatening to remove Hey.com from the App Store if the ambitious new email service doesn’t begin offering an in-app subscription and sharing a cut of its revenue, according to an executive at Basecamp, which makes Hey.
David Heinemeier Hansson, the CTO of Basecamp (and creator or Ruby on Rails) fights back..."

Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp - The Verge

DHH on Twitter: "Apple has definitively approved HEY in the App Store!! No IAP, no 30% cut, but we’ve opened the door to a free temp address service, and use same app for work accounts. I’m so incredibly relieved! And now HEY is open to EVERYONE! No invite code needed 🎉❤️ 

DHH vs Apple

//www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298552/apple-hey-email-app-approval-rules-basecamp-launch

DHH is special! Same trick didn't work for Epic games

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store - The Verge

tool: Markdown Tables generator

Markdown Tables generator - TablesGenerator.com

| Tables   |      Are      |  Cool |
|----------|:-------------:|------:|
| col 1 is |  left-aligned | $1600 |
| col 2 is |    centered   |   $12 |
| col 3 is | right-aligned |    $1 |