Big Tech Digest #3
Tags: programming, news, newsletter
Published: 2023-07-04 14:11:21

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### // 📫 Engineering blogs digest

Recent, selectively picked blog posts from tech companies’ engineering blogs.

- **[Lyft]** [**Building Real-time Machine Learning Foundations at Lyft**](https://eng.lyft.com/building-real-time-machine-learning-foundations-at-lyft-6dd99b385a4e) describes Lyft’s road to real-time Machine Learning with Streaming **by Konstantin Gizdarski**
- **[Paypal]** [**Intro To JavaScript Service Workers**](https://medium.com/paypal-tech/intro-to-javascript-service-workers-43298c365549) **by Patricio Vargas**
- **[Spotify]** [**Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node**](https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/06/analyzing-volatile-memory-on-a-google-kubernetes-engine-node/) explains in detail how memory analysis works and how a new analysis method can be used on any GKE node in production today **by Marcus Hallberg**
- **[Meta]** [**Meta developer tools: Working at scale**](https://engineering.fb.com/2023/06/27/developer-tools/meta-developer-tools-open-source/) goes through tools that help developers at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme scale at Meta **by Neil Mitchell**
- **[Zendesk]** [**Writing an Istio WASM Plugin in Go for migrating 100s of services to new auth strategy**](https://zendesk.engineering/writing-an-istio-wasm-plugin-in-go-for-migrating-100s-of-services-to-new-auth-strategy-part-1-cd551e1455d7) **by Shane Hender**
- [**Doordash**] [**How DoorDash Built an Ensemble Learning Model for Time Series Forecasting**](https://doordash.engineering/2023/06/20/how-doordash-built-an-ensemble-learning-model-for-time-series-forecasting/) **by Qiyun Pan and Hanyu Yang**
- [**BlaBlaCar**] [**How we used machine learning to fight fraud at BlaBlaCar**](https://medium.com/blablacar/how-we-used-machine-learning-to-fight-fraud-at-blablacar-part-1-3b976c9dcdf6) tells a fascinating story how Machine Learning combats different types of Fraud at BlaBlaCar **by Thomas Pocreau**
- [**Linkedin**] [**New Approaches For Detecting AI-Generated Profile Photos**](https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/new-approaches-for-detecting-ai-generated-profile-photos) **by James Verbus**
- [**Etsy**] [**The Problem with Timeseries Data in Machine Learning Feature Systems**](https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/the-problem-with-timeseries-data-in-machine-learning-feature-systems) **by Kyle Gallatin and Mackenzie Starr**
- **[Github]** [**How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases**](https://github.blog/2023-06-20-how-to-write-better-prompts-for-github-copilot/) is a great tutorial on how to use GitHub Copilot productively **by Rizel Scarlett and Michelle Mannering**

### // **⭐️** Misc

a.k.a. the nerd section 🧑‍💻!

- [**Concurrency, Bugs and Databases**](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/concurrency-bugs-and-databases-e798596e083b) discusses a few real-world scenarios where concurrency causes bugs and their possible solutions **by** **Mohak Puri**
- [**PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model**](https://lwn.net/Articles/934940/) Postgres is well-known for its process-based architecture, where a new OS process is spun for each connected client. Is it time for a change? **by Jonathan Corbet**
- [**try**](https://github.com/binpash/try) lets you run a command and inspect its effects before modifying your live system.
- [**MacOS command-line tools you might not know about**](https://saurabhs.org/advanced-macos-commands) 
- **DeepLearning.AI and AWS are jointly launching** [**a new hands-on course Generative AI**](https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/generative-ai-with-llms/) with large language models on Coursera.
- [**Go 1.21 Release Candidate**](https://go.dev/blog/go1.21rc) is there!

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