The Infinity Tech XIX

July 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

🚀 Happy Monday!

Welcome to The Infinity Tech!

This week, we’re welcoming 13 new members to our growing tech community. Let’s dive into this week’s highlights with Galactic Sync – your quick and sharp roundup of the latest in Tech!

🛸 This week’s highlights:

🔹 Perplexity just launched an AI web browser

🔹 Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription

🔹 Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy ✨

🔹 How to Aggregate with Elasticsearch ?

Tech News

🔹 The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering

🔹 Engineered Addictions

🔹 I made my VM think it has a CPU fan

🔹 Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved

🔹Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription

🔹Perplexity just launched an AI web browser

🔹 Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

Tech Articles

🔹 How Spotify Uses GenAI and ML to Annotate a Hundred Million Tracks

🔹Introduction to MCP: Making AI More Connected

🔹Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy ✨

Companies News

🔹 Datafy Completes $20M Seed Round

🔹 Honor Education Inks $38M Series A Round

🔹 RealSense Completes Spinout and Inks $50M Series A

🔹Virtru Secures $50 Million in New Funding

🔹iCapital Announces $820M Financing Round

🔹 Bill Gates predicts only three jobs will survive the AI takeover. Here is why

Trendyol Search Filters: How to Aggregate with Elasticsearch?

In this article, we’ll explore how we built the filter system on Trendyol’s Search page, how Elasticsearch aggregations work under the…

Building a modern Data Warehouse from scratch

This project demonstrates a comprehensive data warehousing and analytics solution, from building a data warehouse to generating actionable…

Design Spotify - System Design Interview

Spotify is the most popular music streaming platform in the world, with over 600 million monthly active users (MAU) and 200 million paid users.

Open Source Repositories

🔹 opencode, AI coding agent, built for the terminal.

🔹 Sirius is a GPU-native SQL engine.

🔹 A Rust port of tmux

🔹 grok-prompts is a collection of prompts and tools used for xAI's Grok-1 model.

🔹 yq is a portable command-line tool, similar to jq, that allows you to process YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, and other formats.

🔹 genai-toolbox is a repository of tools and resources designed to accelerate development using Google's generative AI (GenAI) tools.

🔹 rustfs is a FUSE-based file system written in Rust.

🔹 WebAgent is a web Browse agent that can autonomously complete tasks on web pages by mimicking human-like interactions.

🔹 proxypin is a project that automatically captures free proxies and provides them through an API after verifying their availability.

🔹 grafana-aws-cloudwatch-dashboards is a collection of pre-built Grafana dashboards for monitoring AWS services.

🔹 goose is a tool that allows you to manage database schema migrations in the Go language.

🔹 uBlock is a wide-spectrum, efficient content blocker designed for various web browsers.

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“Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.”
― Stephen King, It

The Effective Technical Explanation Method

Follow these 6 steps to make any complex topic understandable:

1- Lay the Foundation: Clearly define the topic and break it down into its core components.

2- Explain the Mechanics: Show how the parts work together and illustrate the cause-and-effect relationships.

3- Make it Concrete: Bring abstract ideas to life with analogies, simple examples, and diagrams.

4- Go Deeper: Explore the topic's limits and edge cases with "What if?" scenarios.

5- Link to Practice: Show what real-world problems the concept solves.

6- Reinforce: Compare it to similar concepts and provide retention tips to make the knowledge stick.