This edition covers a mix of job-hunting platforms and developer tools aimed at improving application security, system design knowledge, and backend infrastructure.

Job Search and Interview Prep

  • For engineers focused on system design interviews, InterviewCamp.io offers structured content, including weekly live system design discussions. Their approach breaks down interview prep into fundamental building blocks.
  • Triplebyte provides a centralized technical assessment that lets engineers bypass initial screening at companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. They describe the benefit as making your job search O(1) rather than O(n). Apply here.

Application Security and Cloud Learning

  • Traditional AppSec processes haven't kept pace with modern development cycles, but a new class of tools lets developers take the lead. Engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to integrate security bug testing directly into their CI pipelines.
  • For AWS, a course on the Good Parts of AWS filters out marketing hype to focus on the services you'd be remiss to ignore. It was created by former senior-level AWS engineers with 15 years of experience.
  • Developers looking to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise software can explore Educative.io's learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. It has been used by more than 300,000 learners.

Adding State and Streams to Your Stack

  • FaunaDB aims to make adding state to JavaScript apps effortless, with a generous free tier to get started.
  • Stream provides APIs for building news feeds and activity streams. It is free for up to 3 million feed updates, with client libraries for Node, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and .NET. More than 400 companies rely on Stream for production feed infrastructure, including apps with 30 million users. They are also hiring DevOps and Python/Go developers in Amsterdam.

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