"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response"
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Best 7 links of week #19, 2019
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Discover how a big company like Netflix uses Python across different departments: CDN, machine learning, devops, recommendation, etc.
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An interesting overview of two common JavaScript array methods, push and concat, and why concat is much slower than push.
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A wonderful series of articles to introduce you to the art of creating multiplayer browser-based games using mostly JavaScript, Node.js and websockets.
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JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, but behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file size—but what does that look like? Let's see what our eyes can't see!
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An interesting article for serverless lovers. It describes the current status of Fargate, the AWS Docker-based serverless runtime, and compares it with AWS Lambda and Kubernetes.
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Learn all the fundamentals of the Rust programming language in this excellent video. Really good if you have tried multiple times to get started with this language but you were discouraged by the sheer amount of new concepts to understand.
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A while back I wrote about using DynamoDB TTL to implement ad-hoc scheduling. It generated some healthy debate and a few of you have mentioned alternatives including using Step Functions. So let’s take a look at some of these alternatives, starting with the simplest – using a cron job.
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