Weekly Tech - June 2nd of 2025

The art of optimizations, Uber and large scale backups, the MCP boom more alive than ever and a licence problem, yes, this week is ready and loaded, ready?

Hello everyone, and hello to all of you – I hope you’re all doing well?

New week, new Weekly Tech – you’re probably starting to know the song… as you’ve heard for several weeks now, this Weekly Tech is huge, with lots of topics slipping over several weeks and some ecosystems evolving faster than the days themselves.

Basically, that’s enough talk, let’s get down to serious business.

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Culture générale

We start with general knowledge and Gleam 1.11, which comes out with an optimization on compilation to Javascript – achieving 30% is impressive! The blog post goes into more detail about the procedure and the actual optimizations implemented.

Finally, a feedback on DDoS attacks and how to build them (always useful for your personal research)

• How Netflix built its in-video search pipeline

• Gleam 1.11 is out with a 30% performances improvement on Javascript compilation

• A feedback on DDoS attacks and how to build them on purpose

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Base de données

We continue with the database and a return of experience from Uber on building backups and the recovery phase – all on a global scale with billions of entries to replay.

• Stoolap, a SQL database written in pure Go

• How Uber is handling robust backups recoveries

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Machine learning

Also, let’s talk about Dia – a TTS model that can run on your machines (depending on your architecture, of course) and generates audio in a… disconcerting way.

And note ElevenLabs, which makes its conversation model v2.0 available, as well as OpenMCP, a library allowing you to build MCP servers via a JSON file.

• A look at AIBrix, an inference platform built on top of Kubernetes

• Dia, a TTS models capable of generating realistic dialogues

• Mikebot, a "tailor-made" bot built for ComputerPhile

• Mistral unveiled their "Agent API"

• ElevenLabs just published "Conversational AI 2.0"

• Ichi, an experimentation for conversational AI in iOS, macOS and VisionOS

• OpenMCP, a tool to turn JSON files to MCP servers

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PHP

Let’s return to the classics with PHP and, in particular, NativePHP, which goes mobile (hello, license that costs a kidney – if you’re looking for an alternative, there’s Native), and a note on some developers (who were probably just bored, I only see that) thinking that mixing PHP and NodeJS would be a good idea. Finally, ElasticLens, a library for Laravel that allows you to build a full-text search using your models

• From zero to hero with Sylius

• NativePHP is selling licences for the mobile feature

• ElasticLens, a library to support full-text search via Elasticsearch in SQL models

• Blending PHP with NodeJS (why not)

• RecommenderPHP, a library to build recommender systems

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Tools

And we finish this watch with Cap, an open-source Captcha based on the Proof-of-Work algorithm that can be integrated in just a few lines on your applications (a perfect alternative to Google or Cloudflare).

• Cap, a modern open-source Captcha alternative using Proof of Work

And that’s it for this Weekly Tech – as always, don’t hesitate to leave a comment/like if you enjoyed it. On my side, I’ll see you very soon for the audio episode and, next week, for the classic version of the watch.

In the meantime, have a great weekend and a very good week.

See you Friday.