Apple's Wonderlust, Motorola's Milestone, A TikTok's Dublin Move, and WhatsApp's Billion-Dollar Scale and more...
Devkit Dispatch: 28th Edition.
🗓️ Date: 06-09-2023 | 👥 Total Readers: 460+
Hello DevKit family! Here's your curated digest of the tech world. Dive in, and don't forget to share your thoughts in our discord.
Now, its time to Dispatch!
🧠 Fun Fact
Motorola produced the first handheld mobile phone
On April 3rd, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, made the first mobile telephone call. The phone was the size of a brick and didn’t do most of the things phones can do now.
It had no apps and couldn’t take photos like phones now can.
📡 Tech Pulse: Latest happenings in the tech universe.
Apple’s Wonderlust on September 12: Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 series on Sept. 12, potentially introducing new models and features, including USB-C AirPods and a new Apple Watch. Expectations hint at significant camera enhancements and a focus on augmented reality.
TikTok Launches Dublin Data Centre Amid China Concerns: TikTok opens its first European data centre in Dublin to address worries over Chinese surveillance, ensuring European users' data privacy and undergoing third-party security audits.
Google's AI Journey at 25: As Google celebrates its 25th anniversary, it grapples with its position in the evolving AI landscape, facing competition from AI chatbots like ChatGPT. Despite challenges, its cloud business remains a significant player in the tech world.
📘 Dev Resources: Handpicked tools and reads.
Linux Network Performance Parameters Explained: This comprehensive Github repo provides an in-depth understanding of how networking operates in a Linux environment.
Can LLMs learn from a single example?: Repository by leandromoreira focused on Linux network performance, detailing queues, sysctl variables, ingress/egress, and various network parameters like Ring Buffer and Interrupt Coalescence.
WhatsApp’s 50 billion messages per day with 32 engineers: Jan Koum's WhatsApp, rejected by Facebook, scaled to 450 million daily users with 32 engineers using Erlang, eliminating feature creep, leveraging existing solutions, and focusing on quality. Acquired for $19 billion by Meta.
🌐 Git Repos Spotlight: Emerging stars from the open-source galaxy.
ntfy.sh: ntfy (pronounced "notify") is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. With ntfy, you can send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, without having to sign up or pay any fees.
CasaOS: Connect with the community, establish autonomy, reduce the cost of SaaS, and MAXIMIZE the potential for a personalized copilot.
Microsoft Power Toys: Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.
🎧 Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top podcast of the week for you to listen to. Enjoy!
About the podcast:
In the podcast, topics ranged from managing personal expectations to career transitions, the learning curve in jobs, and advice for both junior and senior developers. The session concluded with a discussion on effective interview questions and a heartfelt thank-you.
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