⛳️ The Tech Caffeine #28: This Week in Tech
🤔 What is CAP Theorem? 🤖 Competitive programming with AlphaCode 🎓 Graduating from ETL Developer to Data Engineer
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🤔 What is CAP Theorem?
CAP is a mathematical theorem describing how our application will behave in the event of network partitioning. It is one of the most important laws currently in existence. Through the course of this text, I will share more information on this theorem and why it is important. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll also know why CAP may not be enough for modern-day systems.
⚡️ Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages How Do Energy, Time, and Memory Relate?
This paper presents a study of the runtime, memory usage, and energy consumption of twenty seven well-known software languages. We monitor the performance of such languages using ten different programming problems, expressed in each of the languages. Our results show interesting findings, such as slower/faster languages consuming less/more energy, and how memory usage influences energy consumption.
🤖 Competitive programming with AlphaCode
As part of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level. AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within the top 54% of participants in programming competitions by solving new problems that require a combination of critical thinking, logic, algorithms, coding, and natural language understanding.
🎓 Graduating from ETL Developer to Data Engineer
This article isn’t about trashing legacy ETL tools, there are plenty of other blogs and online discussions that do that just fine. No, this article will go into why you need to make the change to become a data engineer and how to make that leap coming from an ETL developer background.
🔐 OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security
Following a meeting with government and industry leaders at the White House, OpenSSF is excited to announce the Alpha-Omega Project to improve the security posture of open source software (OSS) through direct engagement of software security experts and automated security testing. Microsoft and Google are supporting the Alpha-Omega Project with an initial investment of $5 million. This builds on previous industry-wide investments into OpenSSF aiming to improve open source software security.
