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    Marco Labarile

    Senior Backend Engineer.
    Ex-founder and CTO.
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    My Top 10 Reads of the Month

    August 26, 2023 1 minute read

    Welcome to my monthly digest! Since I’ve stopped posting digests for a bit, I’ll resume posting from my Pocket backlog. I’ll make sure to include more interesting reads and less news:

    • Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind
    • Europe’s major satellite players line up to build Starlink competitor
    • Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
    • Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’
    • Amazon’s quiet open source revolution
    • How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend
    • Meta has open-sourced an AI project that turns your doodles into animations
    • Redpanda, a streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka APIs.
    • How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
    • Automated hydroponic system build with a Raspberry Pi.

    Tags: AI, Programming, Science, Security

    Categories: News

    Updated: August 26, 2023

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