Assorted links for Thursday, March 28:

1. The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2024
2. How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale
3. Global products, global monitoring: Terraform Strategies for Seamless Grafana Dashboards Across Regions – this feels like using Terraform as the core of a GitOps strategy, which doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea to me
4. Licensing AI Engineers
5. TDD: You’re Probably Doing It Just Fine
6. Governments Setting Limits on AI: Many countries and regions are considering, or trying to implement, regulations on the training and use of artificial intelligence
7. Combining Machine Learning and Lifetime-Based Resource Management for Memory Allocation and Beyond
8. How to use GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices
9. Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
10. Use the ‘Hawthorne Effect’ to Increase Your Productivity