Until recently JavaScript has had no way to use any thread of execution other than the UI thread. For a language that was designed to work in an asynchronous event handling environment this is surprising. Today modern JavaScript does have additional threads and it is important to know how to use them.

The emergence of large language models such as GTP4 has revitalized the question of what do we mean by "intelligence" in practical terms. And once we adopt an operational definition does it defeat the whole idea of "artificial intelligence"? The solution might be to realize that intelligence isn't a property, but a relationship.

OSS Insight will tell you everything you ever wanted or needed to know about GitHub projects and developers. It is open source and its API is available to all/

Amazon is a company that you might expect to be at the front of commercializing AI - after all they have the computing power in AWS and the expertise in the form of Alexa. In a bit of a catch up maneuver Amazon is now offering a free code assistant, CodeWhisperer and promises more.

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is concerned about plans by the European Union (EU) regarding distributing open source software.

Here's a free course on MySQL with a focus of using it as a Developer. While it is taught by Aaron Francis, Developer Educator at PlanetScale, the serverless MySQL platform, it applies to any MySQL instance and isn't PlanetScale-specific.

Developers who are concerned about the phasing out of Manifest V2 can rest assured that it won't happen any time soon. Google will provide at least 6 months notice before beginning any experiments to turn it off in the browser and this is shunted into "next year".

Apache has announced that Apache EventMesh has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project. EventMesh was developed by WeBank, and can be used in event-driven and serverless architectures to make it easier to develop event-driven apps in complex distributed systems.

Yael Kalai, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Adjunct Professor at MIT, is the recipient of the 2021 ACM Prize in Computing for her work on cryptography.

Lightbend has released a Java SDK for Kalix. Lightbend produces cloud-native microservices frameworks while Kalix is a Platform-as-a-Service, developed by Lightbend, that combines an API-first, database-less programming model with a serverless runtime.

In this FreecodeCamp course, you will learn how to create a full stack application using MongoDB for the database, Java and Spring Boot for the back end and React for the front end.

Meta has released a new open source version of Buck, its internal build system. Buck2 is described as twice as fast as its predecessor.

Fiberplane has announced Autometrics, a set of open source libraries for understanding the performance of your code in production. It provides Grafana dashboards and Fiberplane notebooks to visualize the metrics of how your code is performing.

Author: Jeremy Kubica
Publisher: No Starch
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1718502604
Print: 1718502605
Kindle: ‎ B09WJYH4KL
Audience: Developers interested in data structures
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book looks at what lies behind data structures and how this relates to solving complex problems with the aim of providing new insights into how to use the underlying structure of your data to be more efficient.

This book shows what information can be gained from graphical displays. Antony Unwin focuses on why you draw graphics to display data and which graphics to draw (and uses R to do so). All the datasets are available in R or one of its packages. The book guides you in choosing graphics and understanding what information you can glean from them, such as data cleaning, exploring data structure, detecting outliers and unusual groups, and identifying trends and clusters.

This book is a guide to implementing event-driven microservices architecture using C# 11 and .NET 7. Joshua Garverick and Omar Dean McIver cover the new features of .NET 7 that will make developing applications using EDA patterns easier, and how the core tenets of domain-driven design are implemented in .NET 7.

This book provides an elementary introduction to the Wolfram Language and modern computational thinking. Stephen Wolfram, the creator of the Wolfram Language as well as Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica, assumes no prior knowledge of programming, and the book is suitable for both technical and non-technical college and middle-to-high-school students.