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FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency? ✅

This article discusses the importance of server performance under heavy load and explores the FIFO and LIFO queueing strategies. It presents a simulation in Colab to compare the two strategies and their impact on response time, error rate, throughput, and latency.

• The results show that while LIFO performs better at higher query rates, it starts returning errors earlier.
• The adaptive queueing strategy, which switches between FIFO and LIFO based on queue size, performs the best overall.
• Prioritizing requests combined with LIFO or adaptive strategies improves performance, and FIFO has lower throughput and increased latency overhead.

Who reads your email? ✅

The blog post discusses the centralization of the internet, specifically focusing on email services.

• Many domain owners used to run their own mail servers but now rely on third-party email service providers due to the challenges of combating spam and managing increasing traffic.
• Popular email service providers include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Yandex, GMX, Proofpoint, Barracuda, Sophos, and Trustwave.
• The author conducted a study by analyzing gTLD zone files and performing DNS lookups to identify mail server FQDNs.
• The study focuses on generic second-level domains and does not include country-code TLDs.
• The distribution of mail servers varies in different ccTLD zones.

Takeaways:

• The centralization of email services is evident, with major providers like Google and Microsoft handling a significant portion of personal and business email.
• Many domains do not have proper MX records or IP addresses for receiving mail, indicating potential configuration issues.
• It’s important to consider the dominance of certain email service providers and their implications for privacy, security, and control over personal data.

Learning JavaScript from ChatGPT ✅

ChatGPT, powered by GPT-4, shows enhanced coherence and longer session capabilities.

• An experiment was conducted to test its teaching abilities for JavaScript.
• ChatGPT created an interactive course, assessing the student’s skill level and presenting challenges accordingly.
• It covered topics like variables, functions, arrays, objects, asynchronous JavaScript, and higher-order functions.
• Although ChatGPT proved useful for beginners, it lacked depth in teaching advanced topics like function composition.
• Students can still benefit from learning to build compose and pipe functions to reduce boilerplate in React applications.
• Function composition enhances code modularity and reusability.

Open source software — answering the big questions

Open Source Developer Advocate at Aqua Security, discusses the role of open source software (OSS) in today’s technology strategies. She debunks common myths surrounding OSS and highlights its importance in cloud-native applications and infrastructure.

• She explains that OSS projects are not riskier than proprietary software and are influenced by recent developments, making them predictable and transparent.
• While collaboration in OSS can present challenges, mature projects have established structures for easy integration and support.
• She emphasizes that OSS is mature, extensively tested, and receives regular updates.
• Furthermore, OSS is not limited to enterprise applications and is gaining traction in government initiatives.
• OSS is also crucial for developing cloud-native technologies.

The Lazy Programmer’s Guide to Maintaining a Personal Website

Developers often want to showcase their skills by building their own personal websites from scratch. To make this process easier, here are 10 steps to build and maintain a personal website with minimal effort:

1. Set up a repository on a development platform like GitHub or GitLab, including a license and README.
2. Choose a JavaScript framework like React, Vue, or Svelte to build your website.
3. Consider including a UI component library like Material UI or Bootstrap to enhance your project.
4. Build a simple version of your website using components from the UI library, focusing on getting something live quickly.
5. Add interactive elements such as animations or user interactions to make your website more engaging.
6. Deploy your website using platforms like Netlify, Vercel, or GitHub Pages.
7. Set up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to automate checks and deployments.
8. Use Dependabot to keep your dependencies up-to-date by adding a dependabot.yml file.
9. Check for accessibility issues using tools like Lighthouse and make necessary improvements.
10. Set up a cron job or automated tests to regularly check the availability of your website.

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• Understand different models and when to use them
• Generate human-like text for various purposes
• Control creativity and generate high-quality text
• Transform and edit text for useful tasks
• Optimize GPT models’ performance
• Stem, lemmatize and reduce bills when using the API
• Practice advanced techniques like Context Stuffing and chaining
• Learn how Tesla and Notion use text embedding
• Implement semantic search and other advanced tools
• Create prediction algorithms and zero-shot techniques and evaluate the accuracy
• Practice and improve few-shot learning
• Leverage fine-tuning to create your own models
• Use best practices to create models
• Train and classify using GPT
• Create advanced fine-tuned models
• Use OpenAI Whisper and other tools for voice assistants
• Implement image classification with OpenAI CLIP
• Generate and edit images with OpenAI DALL-E 2

🎦 Videos

How Quantum Computers Break The Internet… Starting Now ✅

The video warns that quantum computers could break encryption within the next 10 to 20 years, posing a significant threat to internet security. Intercepting encrypted data now, known as Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL), aims to access valuable information that will remain relevant in the future.

Quantum computers exploit the power of qubits to perform calculations on multiple states simultaneously, enabling faster factorization of large prime numbers used in encryption. To mitigate this threat, new cryptography methods must be implemented, as current encryption schemes are vulnerable.

Transitioning to quantum-resistant encryption is crucial to safeguard data privacy in the future.

⚙️ Tools

mjovanc/awesome-decentralized

A curated list of awesome projects, books, articles, tutorials, courses and other useful resources regarding decentralized technologies.

eugeneyan/open-llms

A list of open LLMs available for commercial use.

pingdotgg/uploadthing

File uploads for modern web devs

dint-dev/cryptography

Cryptography for Flutter developers: encryption, digital signatures, key agreement, etc.

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