Architecture Weekly

Hi! My name is Oskar Dudycz. I created this repository to share a weekly set of links that I found valuable and inspiring. I hope that you'll like it!

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5th June 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - The Holy Graal syndrome
• Barry O'Reilly - Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks
• Andreas Öhlund, David Boike - Using anti-requirements to find system boundaries
• João Antunes - From domain events to infrastructure - thinking out loud about possible approaches I don’t hate
• Facundo Agriel - Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System
• Frank Leymann - Transactions in a Microservice World
• Business Rule Group - The Business Rules Manifesto
• Holly Cummins - Cloud Chaos & Microservices Mayhem
• Domenic Cassisi - Why is Kafka not Ideal for Event Sourcing?

DevOps

• David Rant - How Not to Use the DORA Metrics to Measure DevOps Performance
• Jim Barton - Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh
• Eugene Khyst - Set up Nginx and Let’s Encrypt with Docker Compose in less than 3 minutes with a Docker Compose project

Database

• Zalando - Patroni - A template for PostgreSQL High Availability with Etcd, Consul, ZooKeeper, or Kubernetes
• Lokhesh Ujhoodha - Save time scavenging with EventStoreDB v22.10

Testing

• LastMinute.com - Impacts of contract tests in our microservice architecture

AI

• Phillip Carter - All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs

AWS

• James Eastham - Build Asynchronous API's using the Storage First Pattern & the AWS CDK

Azure

• Microsoft - Announcing Materialized Views for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (Preview)

Java

• Shaun Smith - GraalVM Native Image — Faster, Smarter, Leaner
• Harish Kumar - Easy Implementation of GDPR with Aspect Oriented Programming

.NET

• Stefan Pölz - How To Test C# Unit Tests With Mutation Testing
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Introduction to ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs
• Suminda Niroshan - Using .Net X509 Certificates to Sign Images and Documents (C# .Net)
• Andres Lopes - Creating a simple real-time chat with .NET Core, ReactJS and SignalR

Node.js

• Turbo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turbopack and Turborepo.

Management

• Plane - Open-source, self-hosted project planning tool

Industry

• Harvard Business Review - Rethink What You “Know” About High-Achieving Women
• Jensen Huang - NVIDIA Keynote at COMPUTEX 2023
• Federal Trade Comission - FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children’s Privacy Law by Keeping Kids’ Alexa Voice Recordings Forever and Undermining Parents’ Deletion Requests

29th May 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to deal with privacy and GDPR in Event-Sourced systems
• Oskar Dudycz - Anti-patterns in event modelling - I'll just add one more field
• StackOverflow Blog - Are clouds having their on-prem moment?
• Netflix - ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types
• Gergely Orosz - Inside Datadog’s $5M Outage (Real-World Engineering Challenges #8)
• Laila Bougria - Message processing failed! But what's the root cause?
• Aritra Das - Error Handling in Event-Driven Systems
• João Rosa, Trond Hjorteland - Intentional Architecture
• Simon Brown - C4 Models as Code
• Herbert A. Simon - The Architecture of Complexity

DevOps

• Confluent - Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka
• Giorgio Sironi - I just want to run a container...

Frontend

• Angular Blog - Angular v16 is here!

Testing

• Piotr Przybył - Integration tests are needed and simple

AI

• Santa Fe Institute - Workshop on AI and the Barrier of Meaning
• The Guardian - ‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
• Vice - Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money

Azure

• Microsoft - Microsoft Build Book of News

Java

• Josh Long - Bootiful Spring Boot 3
• Szymon Przebierowski - Do you still need testcontainers with Spring Boot 3.1?

.NET

• Richard Campbell - The History of .NET
• Steven Gordon - Concurrent Hosted Service Start and Stop in .NET 8
• Microsoft - ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 4
• Microsoft - .NET at Microsoft Build 2023

Python

• KDNuggets - Pandas AI: The Generative AI Python Library

Rust

• Jonathan Turner - Why I left Rust

Coding Life

• Martin Thompson - Aeron – Proof of the benefits of open development

Industry

• Flexera - IT Spending by Industry

Security

• The Verge - Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block
• CNN - Meta slapped with record $1.3 billion EU fine over data privacy
• BBC News - ChatGPT-maker U-turns on threat to leave EU over AI law

22nd May 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Is the audit log a proper architecture driver for Event Sourcing?
• Suhail Patel - Banking on Thousands of Microservices
• Marc Brooker - Open and Closed, Omission and Collapse
• J.B. Rainsberger - Surviving Your Inevitable Agile Transition
• Rebecca Wirf-Brock - Getting out of your ruts
• Matthew Skelton, Nick Tune - Independent Service Heuristics
• Robert Yokota - Understanding JSON Schema Compatibility
• Adrian Hornsby - Respecting What Came Before, Premature Optimization, the Pitfalls of Sensationalism and Technology Enthusiasm
• Kevlin Henney - The SOLID Design Principles Deconstructed

DevOps

• Elif Samedin, Andrei Buzoianu - Terraform check{} Block - define assertions based on data source values to verify the state of the infrastructure

Testing

• Michael Feathers - The Flawed Theory Behind Unit Testing

Frontend

• Shopify - 3 ways to find your worst JavaScript offenders for page load

AI

• BYTE Magazine - Volume 06 Number 09 (1981) - Artificial Intelligence

Azure

• Microsoft - Collection for Cloud Native New Year 2023
• Alicja Kucharczyk, Adam Wołk - Multi-tenant Saas apps made simple on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Java

• Holly Cummins - Contract testing with Pact and Quarkus
• Oracle - Announcing Graal Cloud Native

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Marten V6 is Out! And the road to Wolverine 1.0
• Rick Strahl - Implementing Two-Factor Auth using an Authenticator App in ASP.NET
• JetBrains - C# Support in Fleet: Solution View, Unit Testing, and More!
• Microsoft - Learn how to modernize your .NET apps from the pros!

Python

• Szymon Miks - How to test an API request to the external system

Management

• Dan North - Patterns of Effective Teams
• S. E. Dreyfus, H. L. Dreyfus - A five-stage model of the mental activities involved in directed skill acquisition
• Dave Farley - Kent Beck On AGILE vs WATERFALL

Product Design

• Zalando - Discovering & launching products in Zalando SE by Stefano Rinaldi
• Sam McAfee - This Agile Hammer Doesn't Work For New Product Development

Security

• Forbes - Apple And Google Team Up To Stop Unwanted AirTag Tracking
• Forbes - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’

15th May 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Gergely Orosz - Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
• Motley Fool Transcribing - Datadog (DDOG) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript
• Netflix - Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1
• Luca Mezzalira - Microfrontends Anti-Patterns: Seven Years in the Trenches
• Yan Cui - Is serverless overpriced? What can we learn from the PrimeVideo team?
• Camille Fournier - Avoiding the Rewrite Trap
• Eberhard Wolff - Why You Might Fail with DDD
• Hany Elemary - Customer Experience APIs: The missing layer
• Amy Hupe - How to write sh*t documentation

DevOps

• Natalie Arellano, Aidan Delaney - Customizing Your Buildpacks Build – Yes You Can!
• Google - Autopilot is now GKE’s default mode of operation — here’s what that means for you

Databases

• PostgREST - A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API
• data-diff - Compare tables within or across databases

Java

• Reflectoring.io - Structured Logging with Spring Boot and Amazon CloudWatch

.NET

• Jake Scott - Deploy a Serverless API Using .NET NativeAOT
• Norm Micro-ORM - High performance micro-ORM database mapper and modernized Dapper replacement for .NET Standard 2.1 and higher
• BlobHelper - BlobHelper is a common, consistent storage interface for Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Komodo, Kvpbase, and local filesystem written in C#
• ChatGPT - A ChatGPT C# client for MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and Browser. Powered by Avalonia UI framework.

Tools

• GitHub - GitHub code search is generally available

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - A few notes on running open source project after Marten v6 release
• Mike Melanson - How ‘open’ should your open source be?

Management

• Ben Kuhn - Some mistakes I made as a new manager

Industry

• CNBC - Shopify offloads logistics business to Flexport
• IT Brew - Senate takes action on open-source vulnerabilities in wake of 2022 Log4j attack
• BBC - Ex-Uber security chief sentenced over covering up hack
• The Byte - IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources
• Fortune - Leaked email from Microsoft CEO says salaried staff will not get raises this year due to macroeconomic conditions

Security

• SonaType - State of the Software Supply Chain
• Bleeping Computer - Discord discloses data breach after support agent got hacked

Trivia

• Upraise - Output Vs Outcome: Top 10 Differences

8th May 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Amazon Prime Video Tech - Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
• Adrian Cockcroft - So many bad takes — What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story
• Werner Vogels - Monoliths are not dinosaurs
• James Shore - Rethinking Scaling
• The Jim Rutt Show - Dave Snowden on Managing Complexity in Times of Crisis
• Michelle Ufford - Whoops, the numbers are wrong! Scaling data quality @ Netflix
• Sara Pellegrini, Milan Savić - The aggregate is dead. Long live the aggregate!
• A. Harmel-Law, D. Montalion, M. Rozinsky, G. Thiyagarajan, D. Young - A Commune in the Ivory Tower? - A New Approach to Architecture

DevOps

• cilium - eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - General strategy for migrating relational data to document-based
• S. Sarkar, N. Dayan, M. Athanassoulis - The LSM Design Space and its Read Optimizations

Frontend

• Angular Master Podcast 38 - Minko Gechev on Angular 17+

Linux

• ZDNet - Linux Kernel 6.3 is released with some major new features

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Twisting PostgreSQL into a Document Db and Event Store
• Edwin van Wijk - Dapr workshop
• Microsoft - ASP.NET Core Route Tooling Enhancements in .NET 8
• Oren Eini - Fight for every byte it takes series

Node.js

• Fast Node Manager (fnm) - Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

Tools

• Fusuma - A tool that makes slides with Markdown easily
• phind - The AI search engine for developers

Coding Life

• Martin Fowler - An example of preparatory refactoring
• Woody Zuill - Practical Refactoring

Management

• Charity Majors - The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Security

• The Wired - The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever

Industry

• Dylan Patel - Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
• Yahoo - OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT
• MIT - OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it
• ArsTechnica - Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely

Trivia

• Mark Manson - How to Take Risks

1st May 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• The NewStack - Google Cloud Services Hit by Outage in Paris
• Google - Cloud incident status 2023-04-25
• DataCenterDynamics - OVHcloud's data center fire: One year on, what do we know?
• Slack - Real-time Messaging
• ThoughtWorks - Technology Radar #28
• WunderGraph - Is GraphQL dying? 2023 Trend Analysis of REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI, SOAP, gRPC and tRPC
• Prequel - SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue
• Gregor Hohpe - Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions
• Martin Fowler - FeatureToggle
• Pete Hodgson - Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags)
• Valerii Udonov - Domain-Driven Design: building the Right thing Right
• InfoQ - EventMesh Serverless Platform Promoted to Apache Top-Level Project
• InfoQ - AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework

Databases

• Datomic - Datomic is Free
• Turso - Turso is an edge-hosted, distributed database based on libSQL
• libSQL - a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.

Frontend

• Debbie O'Brien - Adding analytics to your Nuxt site

Testing

• Oskar Dudycz - How to test event-driven projections
• Michael Feathers - Characterization Testing
• Tracetest - Generate end-to-end tests automatically from your traces. For QA, Dev, & Ops.

AI

• ML YouTube Courses - Discover the latest machine learning / AI courses on YouTube.

.NET

• Microsoft - Secure your .NET cloud apps with rootless Linux Containers
• Luce Carter - Zero to Document Hero - Intro to MongoDB and .NET
• Kevin Gosse - Writing a .NET profiler in C# — Part 3
• Christian Nagel - Web API Updates with .NET 8

Tools

• Motion Canvas - Visualize Complex Ideas Programmatically
• Mega-Linter - analyzes 50 languages, 22 formats, 21 tooling formats, excessive copy-pastes, spelling mistakes and security issues in your repository sources with a GitHub Action, other CI tools or locally.

WebAssembly

• The NewStack - Will JavaScript Become the Most Popular WebAssembly Language?

Coding Life

• T.R. Tulili, A. Capiluppi, A. Rastogi - Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study

Industry

• Wired - Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

Security

• TechCrunch - Mullvad VPN maker says police tried to raid its offices but couldn’t find any user data

24th April 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Slack - Technology Lifecycle
• Sam Rose - Load Balancing
• Paulius Jurcys - What is the Value of Your Data?
• Dan Bergh Johnsson - The Power of Value - Power Use of Value Objects in Domain Driven Design
• James Hickey - DDD Aggregates: Consistency Boundary
• Amin Khansari - A Migration Journey
• Tobias Mende - The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre in Existing Systems – It does not work!
• JSON Schema Store - A collection of JSON schema files including full API

DevOps

• The NewStack - Survey Shows Companies Moving away from DIY Kubernetes
• Open Telemetry - Announcing the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and OpenTelemetry Semantic Convention Convergence

Databases

• dbdev: PostgreSQL Package Manager
• SupaBase - Supabase Wrappers, a Postgres FDW framework written in Rust

Frontend

• wgpu - Safe and portable GPU abstraction in Rust, implementing WebGPU API.

Testing

• Mark Seemann - An abstract example of refactoring from interaction-based to property-based testing

AI

• AWS - Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS
• Semantic Kernel - Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
• Danah Boyd - Resisting Deterministic Thinking

Azure

• Azure Cost CLI - CLI tool to perform cost analysis on your Azure subscription

Java

• Gunnar Morling - Getting Started With Java Development in 2023 — An Opinionated Guide
• Roni Dover - Not Your Grandfather’s Logs — A Java Library’s New Approach To Observability

JavaScript

• Ryan Dahl - Deno: The JavaScript Runtime for the Serverless Era

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Publishing read model changes from Marten
• VaultSharp - A comprehensive cross-platform .NET Library for HashiCorp's Vault
• DistributedLock - A .NET library for distributed synchronization
• João Antunes - Contract first OpenAPI development (but still use Swagger UI with ASP.NET Core)
• AWS - AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET

Tools

• Julien Lengrand-Lambert - Replacing Postman with the JetBrains HTTP Client

Management

• Bertrand Mayer - Object Success

Industry

• The Wall Street Journal - Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs
• Europa Data Protection Board - Finnish SA: Administrative fine on Viking Line for unlawful processing of employees' health data

17th April 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Vladik Khononov - The Fractal Geometry of Software Design
• Uber - Revolutionizing Money Movements at Scale with Strong Data Consistency
• InfoQ - Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023
• CoRecursive Podcast - JSON vs XML With Douglas Crockford

DevOps

• Last Week in AWS - LocalStack: Why Local Development for Cloud Workloads Makes Sense
• Swyx - The End of Localhost
• CNCF - Platforms White Paper

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - Postgres Superpowers in Practice
• Alex Chi - LSM in a Week - A tutorial of building an LSM-Tree storage engine in a week!
• Lokhesh Ujhoodha - You can now run Machine Learning on EventStoreDB through MindsDB

Frontend

• Google - Chrome ships WebGPU

AI

• Zach Blumenfeld - Graph Machine Learning: An Overview
• Microsoft - JARVIS - a system to connect LLMs with ML community
• Multiplex - How You Can Install A ChatGPT-like Personal AI On Your Own Computer And Run It With No Internet.
• Auto-GPT - An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous

AWS

• Alexander Butt-Piercey - Event Sourcing with Ruby and AWS Serverless Technologies - Part One: Design
• Yan Cui - Return large objects with AWS Lambda’s new Streaming Response
• Serverless Spy - CDK-based library for writing elegant, fast-executing integration tests on AWS serverless architecture and an additional web console to monitor events in real time

Azure

• Microsoft - The Azure Solution Architect Map

Java

• Tobi Ajila - Rapid Startup of Your Cloud-Native Java Applications without Compromise
• Inside Java - JDK 20 - Sip of Java
• Devoxx - Java Developer Roadmap

.NET

• Microsoft - Check out new C# 12 preview features!
• NetArchTest - A fluent API for .Net that can enforce architectural rules in unit tests
• Stephen Cleary - Structured concurrency support for C#
• Microsoft - Get started with OpenAI in .NET

Management

• Peaksys Engineering - Why we have decided not to use SAFe® anymore

Industry

• Comprehensive - How much are tech companies paying for talent?
• The Washington Post - Twitter targets its rival Substack, forcing well-known journalists to choose

Security

• Auth0 - Zanzibar Academy - A Globally Distributed Authorization System
• OpenFGA - Relationship-based access control made fast, scalable, and easy to use
• The Washington Post - Discord member details how documents leaked from closed chat group
• Zero Day - Leaked Pentagon Document Claims Russian Hacktivists Breached Canadian Gas Pipeline Company
• Business Today - Samsung employees accidentally leaked company secrets via ChatGPT: Here’s what happened

10th April 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Event stores are key-value databases, and why that matters
• Justin Smith - The Three R’s of Enterprise Security: Rotate, Repave, and Repair
• Giridhar Manepalli - Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems
• George Ball - Billions of Messages Per Minute Over TCP/IP
• Raphael Moutard - GraphQL: From Excitement to Deception
• Lutz Huehnken - Events, Workflows, Sagas? Keep Your Event-driven Architecture Sane
• Weronika Łabaj - To DDD or not to DDD? Domain modelling case study
• Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja - API-First with AsyncAPI

DevOps

• Cloudflare - How Cloudflare runs Prometheus at scale
• Slack - Tracing Notifications
• The NewStack - Platform Engineering Is Not about Building Fancy UIs
• Nigel Poulton - WebAssembly on Kubernetes: everything you need to know
• kustomize - lets you customize raw, template-free YAML files for multiple purposes, leaving the original YAML untouched and usable as is
• Alex Soto - Article Series: Developing Apache Kafka applications on Kubernetes

Databases

• Philipp Krenn - Elasticsearch Under the Hood
• Supabase - Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase
• Paul Ramsey - Generate Unlimited Crypto Using Postgres!

Frontend

• Angular - RFC: Angular Signals

AWS

• AWS - Visualize and create your serverless workloads with AWS Application Composer

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Compound Handlers in Wolverine
• CliWrap - Library for running command-line processes
• Shawn Shi - Optimizing Long-Running Tasks with Background Services and SignalR Notifications
• Jeremy Likness - Improvements to auth and identity in ASP.NET Core 8

Scala

• Adam Warski - Go-like channels using project Loom and Scala

TypeScript

• Matt Pocock - Typescript Generics Workshop
• tRPC - Move fast and break nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy

Coding Life

• Martin Fowler - Slack
• Randall Koutnik - Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
• Gergely Orosz - How to write an effective developer resume: Advice from a hiring manager

Industry

• PC Magazine - Elon Musk Tweet Broke Federal Labor Laws, US Court Rules

Security

• Wiz - BingBang: AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation and account takeover

3rd April 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Scott Mansfield - Caching at Netflix: The Hidden Microservice
• Troy Hunt - To Infinity and Beyond, with Cloudflare Cache Reserve
• Grygoriy Gonchar - A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions
• IcePanel - Architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Microsoft - Microsoft Teams: Advantages of the new architecture
• Zalando - Tech Radar
• Charity Majors - Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery

Databases

• Google - Run AlloyDB anywhere - in your data center, your laptop, or in any cloud
• Citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

DevOps

• Avdi Grimm - Reproducible Development with Containers - Free Online Course

Testing

• Kamil Grzybek - Automated Tests: The Why
• Chelsea Troy - Testing: A Heuristic Hunting Conversation with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

API

• Optic - Track your API changes without writing YAML by hand

Frontend

• Kent C. Dodds - React Server Components with Dan Abramov, Joe Savona
• The Prime Time - React is Holding Me Hostage!!!

AI

• Oskar Dudycz - ChatGPT, revolution or not?
• ZeroHedge - Italy Bans OpenAI's ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns
• TechCrunch - Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI

AWS

• The Burning Monk - The Old Faithful: Why SSM Parameter Store still reigns over Secrets Manager

.NET

• Adam Furmanek - Implementing async with coroutines and fibers - project Loom in C#
• Conner Phillis - Sequential GUIDs in Entity Framework Core Might Not Be Sequential
• Microsoft - API to provide the current system time
• Cezary Piątek - WireMock.NET - Introduction

Coding Life

• Joel Spolsky - Things You Should Never Do, Part I
• Nick Brown - The many flaws of flow efficiency
• Alexander Zeitler - I'm printing out websites - and why you might want to do it too

Management

• Matt Wynne, Steve Tooke - Slicing User Stories for Agile Teams

Security

• OWASP - Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS)

27th March 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Kevin Grüneberg - Migrating 125.000 users from Auth0 to Supabase
• Vladik Khononov - Untangling Microservices, or Balancing Complexity in Distributed Systems
• Derek Comartin - The Challenge of Microservices: UI Composition
• George Candea, Armando Fox - Crash-Only Software
• Ryan Marsh - Event Storm to Production Supergraph: a Domain-Driven Design Approach to GraphQL
• Rocco Scaramuzzi - Event-Driven Microservice Architecture, don’t use only events but use commands too!
• Tomek Stolarczyk - Design Level Event Storming with examples!
• Artur Wojnar - Why make a decomposition of the monolith database?
• The TOGAF standard - a framework for Enterprise Architecture

DevOps

• Docker - We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
• Alex Ellis - Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
• John Reilly - Lighthouse meet GitHub Actions
• GitHub - We updated our RSA SSH host key

Frontend

• Miško Hevery - Signals vs. Observables, what's all the fuss about?

AI

• Stephen Wolfram - What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
• The Verge - OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
• Ted Neward - AI-generated Applications
• David Boyne - Implementing an event-driven serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-E
• GitHub - GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Ensuring uniqueness in Marten event store
• Steve Sanderson - DotNetIsolator: an experimental package for running .NET code in an isolated sandbox
• Meysam Hadeli - Problem Details in .Net 7
• Andrew Lock - Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7

Node.js

• LogRocket - WebSockets tutorial: How to go real-time with Node and React
• Jamie Munro - How to Make a Real-Time Sports Application Using Node.js
• Node Distributed Lock - Enables distributed locking for sequencing actions across node applications
• Colin Diesh - You may not need a bundler for your NPM library

WebAssembly

• The NewStack - WebAssembly: 5 Predictions for 2023

Coding Life

• Dave Anderson - 10 Traits of Successful Junior Software Engineer

Management

• Jeff Paton - The New User Story Backlog is a Map
• Brent M. Jensen - The Combined Engineering Software Model

Trivia

• Marcus Raitner - On the Wise Use of Our Insultingly Short Lifespan

20th March 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Levels.fyi - How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend
• Patrick McKenzie - The infrastructure behind ATMs
• Jacopo Romei - EventStorming from the trenches
• Barry O'Reilly - An Introduction to Residuality Theory
• StackOverflow Blog - After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment
• Paolo Banfi - EventSourcing & CQRS: a light introduction

Databases

• Gunnar Morling - The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages
• Gwen Shapira - Things DBs Don't Do - But Should
• Philip O'Toole - 9 years of open-source database development

DevOps

• Charity Majors - Deploys Are the WRONG Way to Change User Experience

Testing

• Mike Bland - Test Mercenaries

AI

• Google - A new era for AI and Google Workspace
• InfoQ - Google AI Updates Universal Speech Model to Scale Automatic Speech Recognition beyond 100 Languages

AWS

• Zied Ben Tahar - Building an AI powered and Serverless meal planner with OpenAI, AWS Step functions, AWS Lambda and CDK
• AWS - EKS Workshop - Practical exercises to learn about Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

JavaScript

• Jason Godesky - When JavaScript Fails

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Projecting Marten events to Elasticsearch
• Stephen Toub - How Async/Await Really Works in C#
• João Antunes - Mapping ASP.NET Core minimal API endpoints with C# source generators
• Steve Gordon - An Introduction to Elasticsearch for .NET Developers
• Steven Giesel - How to write your own cron Job scheduler in ASP.NET Core (like Quartz, Hangfire, ...)

TypeScript

• Microsoft - Announcing TypeScript 5.0

Coding Life

• David Golden - How to mentor software engineers

Management

• Aino Corry - Retrospectives Antipatterns
• Trond Hjorteland - Sociotechnical Systems Design for the “Digital Coal Mines”
• Harvard Business Review - How Chinese Companies Are Reinventing Management

Industry

• Gergely Orosz - The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
• Gergely Orosz - Amazon doubling down on RTO (return to office)
• OnVoard - Our production servers was suspended by Google Cloud

13th March 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to model event-sourced systems efficiently
• Natan Silnitsky - How Wix Accelerated Open Platform Dev with Standardized APIs & Schemas
• Joel Spolsky - The Law of Leaky Abstractions
• Greg Young - The Bizarre Mating Ritual Of The Whipnose Seadevil
• Richard I. Cook - How Complex Systems Fail
• Michael Feathers - Unconditional Code
• The New Stack - How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages to ScyllaDB
• Discord - How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
• Discord - How Discord Stores Billions of Messages
• Manas Chaudhari, Piyush Gupta - Building Pubsub for 50M concurrent socket connections
• Fran Mendez - Designing Event-Driven Architectures Using the AsyncAPI Specification
• checkcheckzz - System design interview for IT companies

API

• eBay - API Evolution Is a Challenge. Could Contract Testing Be the Solution?

AI

• Intelligencer - You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this

AWS

• AWS - Understanding Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda Event Source Mapping for Efficient Message Processing

Java

• Michael Redlich - JDK 20 and JDK 21: What We Know So Far

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - How to handle multiple commands in the same transaction
• Stephen Cleary - There Is No Thread
• LEGO - The AsyncAPI.NET SDK contains a useful object model for AsyncAPI documents in .NET
• Damian Edwards, David Fowler - Why your ASP.NET Core application won't scale

Node.js

• AVA - Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence

Scala

• Adam Warski - Effects: To Be Or Not To Be

TypeScript

• io-ts - Runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding

Coding Life

• Markus Voelter - On the drawbacks of standard templates, process and ceremony

Management

• Trond Hjorteland - Agile is not working: the IT industry is a “patchwork of contradictions and confusions”

Industry

• Lian Buan - Insidious, expensive: The massive, hidden cost of keeping women offline
• The Verge - Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use
• XDA - HP blocks third-party ink with new firmware update

Trivia

• Bramus Van Damme - YAML: The Norway Problem

6th March 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Jean-Philippe Dutrève - Messaging Patterns : Flow, SAGA, Messaging Gateway and Observability With RabbitMQ Exchange to Exchange Bindings
• Solace - Results from the Industry's First Event-Driven Architecture Survey
• Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity
• Uwe Friedrichsen - The tail at scale
• Dirk Fahland - Multi Dimensional Process Analysis
• Shishir Mehrotra, Matt Hudson - Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
• Andrea Sonea - How open is Open Banking

Distributed Systems

• Kyle Kingsbury - Call Me Maybe: Carly Rae Jepsen and the Perils of Network Partitions
• Google - Introducing Service Weaver: A Framework for Writing Distributed Applications
• Gunnar Morling - O Kafka, Where Art Thou?

Testing

• Josh Armitage - Serverless Testing, Local Considered Harmful? True Cloud Native Testing

AI

• OpenAI - Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
• Corecursive Podcast - The History and Mystery Of Eliza With Jeff Shrager
• Petar Veličković - Everything is Connected: Graph Neural Networks
• The Verge - Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT

AWS

• Andy Blackledge - Enterprise Integration Patterns with Serverless and CDK

JavaScript

• Oskar Dudycz - Fun with serial JSON

.NET

• .NET Frontend Day 2023 - Full conference recording
• Aaron Stannard - Backpressure Explained
• Jannik Buschke - F# event sourcing with Marten
• Sergio Pedri - PolySharp - provides generated, source-only polyfills for C# language features, to easily use all runtime-agnostic features downlevel

Python

• RaySQL - Distributed SQL Query Engine in Python using Ray

Scala

• MOIA Engineering - How to use a Rust lib inside the Scala app

WebAssembly

• Matt Butcher, Radu Matei - The Six Ways of Optimizing WebAssembly

Coding Live

• Minko Gechev - leetcode problems I solved to prepare for my Google interview

Management

• Jason Yip - My critique of “the Spotify Model”
• Henrik Ståhl - The Scrum Fallacy

Industry

• Hired - 2023 State of Software Engineers
• Divya Mohan - The DevRel influencer trend. And why DevRel != tech influencer.

27th February 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Don't let Event-Driven Architecture buzzwords fool you
• Milen Dyankov - Demystifying "event” related software concepts and methodologies
• Tech Lead Journal Podcast - Software Architecture: From Fundamentals to the Hard Parts - Neal Ford
• Kent Beck - Scaling Extreme Programming: Dependencies
• GitHub - Move Fast and Fix Things
• Alexey Zimarev - You don't need an Event Sourcing framework. Or do you?
• Mathias Verraes - Eventsourcing Patterns: Multi-temporal Events
• Martin Fowler - Errant Architectures
• Gara Mohamed - DDD in action: a cohesive mechanism from trenches

Databases

• DataStax - ACID Transactions Are Coming To Apache Cassandra: Here's Why We're Excited
• Vlad Mihalcea - YugabyteDB Architecture

DevOps

• Kacper Gunia - Organizing VCS Repositories by Domain: An Effective Alternative for Mono and Multi Repos

Testing

• Andrzej Krzywda - Unit tests vs class tests
• Urs Enzler - TDD Perspectives: Trade-offs and impact of functional programming

Frontend

• Juntao QIU - Modularizing React Applications with Established UI Patterns

AI

• GPTZero - AI Detector

JVM

• Spring - From Spring Native to Spring Boot 3

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Wolverine’s New HTTP Endpoint Model
• Laurent Kempé - Refactoring huge C# code base in minutes
• Jean-Pierre Seini - Route handler filters in .NET 7
• Steven Giesel - Frozen collections in .NET 8

Industry

• Denis Pushkarev - core-js So, what's next?
• CNBC - Three decades after inventing the web, Tim Berners-Lee has some ideas on how to fix it
• ComputerWorld.com - Amazon denies claims hiring freeze is slowing AWS sustainability work

Security

• Troy Hunt - Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole: A Tale of 6 Rabbits Deep
• SpiceDB - Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired fine-grained permissions database

Trivia

• Infinite-Storage-Glitch - Lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video

20th February 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Glenn Engstrand, Holly Cummins, Dave Farley - Present and Future of the Microservice Architecture
• Fred Hebert - A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
• Gien Verschatse - Pro-Con-Fix list, a simple tool for visualising a trade-off
• Mauro Servienti - The pitfalls of request/response over messaging
• Jessica Kerr - Shaving the Golden Yak
• Nick Tune, Eduardo da Silva - Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)
• Al Tenhundfeld - Where Does Complexity Go? Tesler's Law & Conceptual Compression
• Shawn McCool - Active Record: How We Got Persistence Perfectly Wrong

Databases

• United States PostgreSQL Association - PGConf NYC 2022

DevOps

• Gitlab CI Local - Run gitlab pipelines locally as shell executor or docker executor
• Spotify - Everything you need to know about Backstage with a guide to take you step-by-step

Frontend

• Honeypot - React.js: The Documentary

AI

• The New Yorker - ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

AWS

• Lee Gilmore - Serverless AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns — Part 1

JavaScript

• TC39 - ECMAScript proposal: Type Annotations

JVM

• Cédric Champeau's - Gradle’s flexibility in action

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - CQRS is simpler than you think with C#11 and .NET 7!
• Oskar Dudycz - Set up OpenTelemetry with Event Sourcing and Marten
• Patrick Smacchia - C# ValueTuple
• Keep Coding Podcast - Geeking out on .NET and C# with David Fowler
• Auth0 Blog - Test Authorization in ASP.NET Core Web APIs With the user-jwts Tool

Node.js

• Immutable - Immutable collections for JavaScript

TypeScript

• TypeScript Deep Dive - Nominal Typing

Coding Life

• Mark Seemann - A thought on workplace flexibility and asynchrony
• Rachel Andrew - Technical writing resources

Industry

• Amazon - Update from Andy Jassy on return to office plans
• The Register - Lufthansa flights grounded by major IT snafu, 'construction work' blamed

13th February 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Sam Newman - Don't Call It A Platform. Down with The Platform, up with Developer Enablement
• Holly Cummins - Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices
• Mario Bittencourt - Cache me if you can: A Look at Common Caching Strategies, and how CQRS can Replace the Need in the First Place
• Eric Johnson - Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures
• Tomas Fernandez, Dan Ackerson - 12 Ways to Improve Your Monolith Before Transitioning to Microservices
• Shlomi Kushchi - Serverless Doesn’t Mean DevOpsLess or NoOps
• Merrelyn Emery - The Far Reaching Effects Of The Design Principles
• Thomas Ploch - The One Question To Haunt Everyone: What is a DDD Aggregate?

DevOps

• Plumber - A swiss army knife CLI tool for interacting with Kafka, RabbitMQ and other messaging systems

Databases

• AWS Database Blog - Jason Hunter - Scaling DynamoDB: How partitions, hot keys, and split for heat impact performance

Frontend

• AWS - Micro Frontends on AWS
• Patrick Brosset - The truth about CSS selector performance

Testing

• Rafał Maciak - Testing Microservices - Contract Tests

AI

• MIT Technology Review - We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says

AWS

• Robert Bulmer - Storage-First pattern in AWS with API Gateway, Part 1: using S3

Java

• Thorben Janssen - Java Records as Embeddables with Hibernate 6
• Cédric Champeau - Gradle’s flexibility in action

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Event-driven projections in Marten explained
• James Hickey - How To Structure Your .NET Solutions: Architecture And Trade-Offs
• Gérald Barré - Meziantou.Analyzer - A Roslyn analyzer to enforce some good practices in C#
• Steven Sanderson - Blazor United prototype

UX

• Peter Ramsey - The hidden complexity of bank cards

Management

• Christine Porath and Adrienne Boissy - Practice Empathy as a Team

Security

• Tomasz Onyszko - Your keys are not your SSO
• ArsTechnica - ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

Trivia

• Heather Murray - Transactional Analysis - Eric Berne

6th February 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Martin Fowler - Making Architecture Matter
• Molly Dishman & Martin Fowler - Agile Architecture
• James Lewis - Team Topologies, Software Architecture & Complexity
• Rob Smallshire - Predictive Models of Development Teams and the Systems They Build
• Isaac Abraham - Domain modelling made simple: Functions and Values

DevOps

• Bilgin Ibryam, Roland Huß - Kubernetes Patterns. Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications
• SigNoz - 30+ Observability User Stories

Databases

• SQL Bolt - Learn SQL with simple, interactive exercises.

Frontend

• Tim Deschryver - Adding OpenTelemetry to an Angular Application

Testing

• Liran Tal - Advanced usage patterns for taking page element screenshots with Playwright

Azure

• Marilag Dimatulac Svennevig - Message Brokering and Event Driven Architecture on Azure

JVM

• Sacha Coppey - GraalVM Native Image meets RISC-V

Node.js

• pgwire - PostgreSQL client library for Deno and Node.js that exposes all features of wire protocol

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Explicit validation in C# just got simpler!
• João Simões - Immutability and Entity Framework Core
• David Masters - Entity Framework Core 7: Strongly Typed Ids Together With Auto-Increment Columns
• Steven Giesel - No, No, No - Tasks are not threads and they are not for performance!

WebAssembly

• MDN - Web Assembly docs

Coding Life

• Corecursive Podcast - Shipping Graphing Calculator With Ron Avitzur

Management

• Andy Hunt - Why Are There So Many Misconceptions Around Agile?
• Ruth Malan - Technical Leadership Masterclass
• Ruth Malan - Decisions
• Mel Conway - How do committees invent?
• Strategic and Heuristic IT Management - One-way and Two-way Door Decisions

Industry

• Semafor - OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete

Security

• The Citizen Lab - You Move, They Follow Uncovering Iran’s Mobile Legal Intercept System
• ArsTechnica - ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

30th January 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Alan Kay - Seminar on Object Oriented Programming
• Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock - Principles in Practice
• Andy Hunt - The Four Keys To Rapid Response Software Development
• Michael Nygard, Trisha Gee - Release It!
• J. B. Rainsberger - Investing Wisely in Architecture Through Refactoring
• Gregor Hohpe - Are you integrating or building distributed applications?
• Henrik Warne - There Is No Software Maintenance
• Adrian Hornsby - Becoming a Better Engineer — Part 2: Empathy

DevOps

• Greg Jacobs - Lessons Learned from Enterprise Usage of GitHub Actions
• James Governor - IBM’s Inner Source transformation, scaling a DevOps culture change. Being GitHub and Slack’s biggest customer
• GitHub - Introducing required workflows and configuration variables to GitHub Actions

Databases

• Piotr Kisielewicz - Transactions in MongoDB

Frontend

• ELK - A nimble Mastodon web client

Testing

• Ianis Triandafilov - Using Github Copilot for unit testing

AI

• Microsoft - General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits
• Microsoft - Request Access to Azure OpenAI Service

Azure

• BleepingComputer - Massive Microsoft 365 outage caused by WAN router IP change
• David Okeyode - State of Azure IAM 2022

Java

• Mike Roberts - AWS Lambda SnapStart - What, and Why

.NET

• Derek Comartin, Jeremy D. Miller - Event Sourcing in 1 Hour with Marten in .NET
• Rafał Pieńkowski - Elephants trunk - code complexity analysis
• Rory Reid - My MAUI impressions so far
• Nino Floris - Slon - A modern high performance PostgreSQL protocol implementation for .NET

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Stacking the bricks in the software development process
• Hillel Wayne - 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
• Charles Desneuf - Facilitation Nightmares: How to escape a workshop not going on as planned

Industry

• Bloomberg - Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
• Business Insider - Google's management has reportedly issued a 'code red' amid the rising popularity of the ChatGPT AI

Security

• TechCrunch - Mailchimp says it was hacked — again
• PayPayl - Notice of Security Incident (2022-12-20)

23rd January 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Guide to Projections and Read Models in Event-Driven Architecture
• Glenn F. Henriksen - Building that glorious monolith. And carving it too.
• Herberto Graça: Making architecture explicit
• Kenny Baas-Schwegler - Crunching 'real-life stories' with DDD & Event Storming
• Virtual Domain-Driven Design - Trying out online EventStorming
• Pat Kua — Organising and Governing Evolutionary Architectures (Fitness Functions)

DevOps

• OpenGitOps - a set of open-source standards, best practices, and community-focused education to help organizations adopt a structured, standardized approach to implementing GitOps
• Arek Borucki - Deploying the MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator on Google Cloud

Databases

• Paul McJones - The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics
• Francesco Tisiot - How to JSON in PostgreSQL

AWS

• AWS - Generate Excel workbooks from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Azure

• Microsoft - The Azure FinOps Guide

Java

• Gavin Ray - Building a PostgreSQL Wire Protocol Server using Vanilla, Modern Java 21

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Wolverine meets EF Core and Sql Server
• Damian Płaza - Many faces of DDD Aggregates in F#
• Ian Cooper - Implementing the Clean Architecture in .NET Core
• Damien Bowden - Implementing secure Microsoft Graph application clients in ASP.NET Core

Coding Life

• Einar W. Høst - Death of a Craftsman
• Mark Seemann - In the long run
• Steve Wozniak - The early days

Management

• Uber - Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development
• Jim Little - Change Your Organization (For Peons)
• Ted Neward - Where does DevRel fit on an org chart?

Product Design

• Lars Kamp - Messaging, positioning and storytelling - how to get it right for your start-up

Industry

• Frank Landymore - CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI
• John Voorhees - Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs

Security

• Financial Times - Chinese researchers claim to find way to break encryption using quantum computers
• Tim Bray - Private and Public Mastodon
• Rob Chahin - The SSO Wall of Shame

Trivia

• Nick Cave - Chat GPT. What do you think?

16th January 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to validate business logic
• Mario Bittencourt - Understanding Coupling with Event-Driven Architecture
• Gregor Hohpe - Debugging Architect
• Art Markman - How You Define the Problem Determines Whether You Solve It
• Patrick Roos - The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation
• Google Cloud Blog - Multicloud's moment: Everybody's doing it, but are you doing it right? Here's eight dos and don'ts
• Derek Comartin - Avoid batch jobs! Model the future!
• Ethan Garofolo - FAA, NOTAM, and failing to learn

DevOps

• Anton Yakutovich - Aggressive dependency caching in GitHub Actions
• B Shyam Sundar - Exploring Docker Hub’s WASM technical preview

Compilers

• Robert Nystorm - Crafting Interpreters

Databases

• Brian Sam-Bodden - Probabilistic Data Structures with Redis Bloom

AWS

• AWS - Amazon DynamoDB Labs

.NET

• TurboSharp - A command-line IDE for C#
• Kacper Drejer - How to manage feature flags in ASP.NET Core apps with Azure?
• Maarten Balliauw - Producer/consumer pipelines with System.Threading.Channels
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - The Future of .NET with WASM

Node.js

• State of JS 2022
• Sebastian Weber - Reduce maintenance effort with shared ESLint and Prettier configs

Python

• Vega-Altair - Declarative Visualization in Python

Coding Life

• Ted M. Young - Remote Learning Ensembles
• Jessica Kerr - Velocity defeats itself. Get acceleration instead
• Wojciech Seliga - Ten lessons I painfully learnt while moving from software developer to entrepreneur/CEO role
• Allen Helton - How I Became an AWS Serverless Hero

Management

• The Verge - Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off
• J. de Bloom, C. J. Syrek, Jana Kühnel, T. Vahle-Hinz - POLICY AND PRACTICE REVIEWS Unlimited Paid Time Off Policies: Unlocking the Best and Unleashing the Beast

Industry

• CodinGame - State of Tech Hiring in 2023
• DarkReading - Biden Signs Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Guidelines Into Law
• ArsTechnica - Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
• CNBC - Here’s how much money Google estimates Microsoft’s cloud business is actually losing
• Bloomberg - Microsoft Sinks as Downgrade Highlights Cloud-Growth Concerns

9th January 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Ted Neward - You Want Modules, Not Microservices
• Donella (Dana) Meadows - Lecture: Sustainable Systems
• John Ousterhout - A Philosophy of Software Design
• T. Winters, T. Manshreck, H. Wright - Software Engineering at Google
• Adam Tornhill - Prioritizing Technical Debt as If Time & Money Matters
• Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski - Why Good Software Architecture Matters: The Impact on Performance and Agility
• Charles Fitzgerald - “Supercloud” RIP
• Alistair Cockburn - Simplify Software Design (1st draft)
• Udi Dahan - Finding Service Boundaries – illustrated in healthcare
• Ian Cooper - Managing Event Driven Architectures

DevOps

• Natan Silnitsky - Troubleshooting Kafka for 2000 Microservices at Wix
• Mary Branscombe - Kubernetes for Windows

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - Let's build event store in one hour!

Frontend

• Szymon Chmal - The Role of Transpilers in Web Development

Testing

• Adam Furmanek - Testing at scale
• JetBrains - HTTP Client CLI – Run Requests and Tests on CI

AI

• Meta - Teaching AI advanced mathematical reasoning

Azure

• Stephane Eyskens - The Azure Networking Map

.NET

• James Shore - The Problem With Dependency Injection Frameworks
• bflat - C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling
• David Glassborow - A brief introduction to WebAssembly in .NET and F#
• Phillip Carter - Microsoft doesn't hate F#

Python

• Szymon Miks - The outbox pattern in python

Coding Life

• Scott Hanselman - Scaling Yourself
• Kim Maida - How to Measure the Value of Developer Relations
• Eric Sink - SQLitePCLRaw and open source sustainability

Industry

• Stanford News - Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?

Security

• BleepingComputer - Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations

2nd January 2023

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Sheen Brisals - The Road To Event-Driven Architecture at LEGO
• eBay - Why and How eBay Pivoted to OpenTelemetry
• Paul Rayner - Virtual Event Storming

API

• Netflix - How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 1)
• Microsoft - Describing a real API with Cadl: The Moostodon story
• Asbjørn Ulsberg - REST State Machine Revisited

AI

• Phil Wang - Implementation of RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) on top of the PaLM architecture. Basically ChatGPT but with PaLM
• N. Perry, M. Srivastava, D. Kumar, D. Boneh - Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants?
• Emily M. Bender, Chirag Shah - All-knowing machines are a fantasy
• Research at Microsoft - 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AI

AWS

• Luca Mezzalira - Evolutionary AWS Lambda functions with hexagonal architecture
• AWS - A closer look at AWS Lambda
• Massimo Re Ferrè - Using AWS Step Functions to mitigate code liability

Go

• Robert Laszczak - The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know

Java

• InfoQ - Java InfoQ Trends Report - December 2022

.NET

• David Fowler - A multiplayer trivia game using SignalR and .NET 7
• Marcin Kern - Domain modelling in object-oriented and functional programming, based on C# and F#
• ISLE - A library that allows developers to perform structured logging using interpolated strings in C# 10 or later
• System.IO.Abstractions - Just like System.Web.Abstractions, but for System.IO. Yay for testable IO access!

Scala

• Scala - Scala Developer Survey 2022 Results

TypeScript

• Matt Pocock - Don't use Function type in TypeScript

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Don't be like Ebenezer Scrooge. A few words about workaholism
• Chelsea Troy - Reviewing Pull Requests
• Dennis Adolfi - How to become a better mentor
• Thomas Depierre - I am not a supplier

Management

• Software Engineering Radio - Episode 543: Jon Smart on Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Successful Software Delivery in Enterprises

Industry

• The Register - Carmack quits Meta, brands it inefficient and unprepared for competition
• Mozilla - Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative

Security

• Bleeping Computers - PyTorch discloses malicious dependency chain compromise over holidays
• Bloomberg Law - Ransomware Needs ‘Physical’ Damage For Insurance, Ohio Court Rules

Trivia

• Gary Trosclair - Compulsive Personality: A New and Positive Perspective

26th December 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Explicit events serialisation in Event Sourcing
• Ben Nadel - Considering Strategies For Idempotency Without Distributed Locking With Ben Darfler
• Jon Chew - Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System
• Jimmy Bogard - Refactoring Towards Resilience: Evaluating SendGrid Options
• Vladik Khononov - Tackling Complexity in CQRS
• Gregor Hohpe - I Made Everything Loosely Coupled. Does My App Fall Apart?
• Derek Comartin - You want to use Kafka? Or do you really need a Queue?
• The Hanselminutes podcast - Hachyderm's Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server
• Leigh Griffin, Chris Foley - Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role

AI

• ComputerWeekly - GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers
• Parth Thakkar - Copilot Internals

Go

• Robert Laszczak - The Best Go framework: no framework?

Java

• Edoardo Vacchi - WebAssembly for the Java Geek

.NET

• Tomasz Pęczek - Experimenting With .NET & WebAssembly - Running .NET Based Spin Application On WASI Node Pool in AKS
• Jeremy D. Miller - Transactional Outbox/Inbox with Wolverine and why you care
• Jonathan Allen - .NET 7 Adds Aggressive Garbage Collection for Kubernetes
• Rob Janssen - NUlid

Node.js

• ESLint - Complete rewrite of ESLint

Rust

• Nick Cameron - Rust in 2023

TypeScript

• Andrey Starovoyt - Behind the Scenes: Discussing One of the Most Interesting TypeScript 4.9 Features

Coding Life

• Chris Klug - I'm just trying to keep my head above water
• Connor Tumbleson - Open Source & Saying "No"

Industry

• Anton Shilov - Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing
• DataQuest - How AWS enabled the making of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water?’
• Fortune - How Amazon grew an awkward side project into AWS, a behemoth that’s now 4 times bigger than its original shopping business
• Los Angeles Times - How Amazon put Ukraine’s ‘government in a box’ — and saved its economy from Russia
• National Post - U.S. considering ban on TikTok as experts warn China could use it for spying. What will Canada do?
• Forbes - TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

Security

• Bleeping Computer - Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
• MrWhoseTheBoss - How THIS wallpaper kills your phone
• LastPass - Notice of Recent Security Incident
• Snyk.io - Exploring the Spring Security authorization bypass (CVE-2022-31692)

19th December 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - The magic is that there is no magic. Or how to understand design patterns.
• Tyler Treat - Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong
• Charles E. Leiserson et al - There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?
• I. Cartwright, R. Horn, J. Lewis - Patterns of Legacy Displacement. Effective modernization of legacy software systems
• Alexey Zimarev - Aggregate pattern in Domain-Driven Design
• Dennis van der Stelt - Dealing with eventual consistency

Distributed Systems

• Frank Pfenning - A Rehabilitation of Message-passing Concurrency
• Gerard Klijs - How dumb do you want your pipes?

Databases

• Phil Bernstein - Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems
• Anton Stöckl - Essential features of an Event Store for Event Sourcing

Frontend

• Luca Mezzalira - Server-side rendering micro-frontends – the architecture

Testing

• Michael Feathers - Making Too Much of TDD

Functional Programming

• Simon Peyton Jones - Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language

Go

• Nicholas Jackson - Building Microservices in Go

Java

• The New Stack - Java Usage Keeps Climbing, According to New Survey
• Krzysztof Ślusarski - Finding heap memory leaks with Async-profiler

.NET

• Maarten Balliauw - Improved Startup Performance in Rider 2022.3
• Jorge Fioranelli - Reactive Messaging Patterns with F# and Akka.NET
• Martin Thwaites - Building Operable Software with TDD (but not the way you think)
• David Fowler - Smart load balancing for SignalR

Python

• Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way
• Codon - A high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM

Management

• Inger Dickson - "No Estimates" is not the (only) Answer or: Moving towards Predictability

Industry

• Reuters - U.S., UK export controls hit China's access to Arm's chip designs -FT
• CNN - Elon Musk’s Twitter blocked links to rival Mastodon. That could raise alarms among regulators
• The Verge - Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter
• Yahoo - Twitter suspends account of Paul Graham, a respected venture capitalist supportive of Elon Musk, after he tweets about Mastodon link
• John Gruber - I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter
• Comics Beat - Shocker: NFT companies backing off on paying royalties

Trivia

• Christoph Rumpel - 12 Tips For Better Live Coding

12th December 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Udi Dahan - Advanced API and Integration Problems & Patterns
• Ian Cooper - At Least Once. Life without Two-Phase Commit
• Javiera Laso - Start with DDD when you have a monolith
• Trond Hjorteland - Thriving in complexity
• Logz.io - Beginner’s Guide to OpenTelemetry
• Svyatoslav Kotusev - One Minute Enterprise Architecture
• Legacy Code Rocks Podcast - Evolving Software with João Rosa
• Oskar Dudycz - Share your story on Event Sourcing Live 2023

DevOps

• Cloudflare - Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet?

Databases

• Luis Sena - The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Elasticsearch Write Throughput and Speed
• Opster - How to Improve Elasticsearch Search Performance
• Fabio Marini - Going multi-model with PostgreSQL and Apache AGE: experimenting with Graph Databases

AI

• TechCrunch - Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

Java

• Karsten Silz - Spring Modulith Structures Spring Boot 3 Applications with Modules and Events
• Piotr Przybył - How to (mis)use Virtual Threads
• Vadym Kazulkin - Measuring Java 11 Lambda cold starts with SnapStart - Part 1 First Impressions

.NET

• .NET Rocks - Wolverine .NET Command and Message Bus with Jeremy Miller
• Steven Giesel - Frozen collections in .NET 8
• James Eastham - Learning GraphQL
• AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers - OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core

NodeJS

• Darius Kazemi - A very simple reference implementation of an ActivityPub server using Express.js
• Einar Nordfjord - Using EventStore with NestJS

Python

• Tim Hutton - twitter-archive-parser - Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways

Web Assembly

• Fastly - Compute@Edge
• Vercel - Introducing support for WebAssembly at the Edge
• Massimo Ferre’ - Web Assembly (on the server)

Tools

• Amazon CodeCatalyst - Dev Environments
• Hurl - Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format

Security

• Bleeping Computer - Docker Hub repositories hide over 1,650 malicious containers

5th December 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Werner Vogels - Distributed Computing Manifesto
• Adam Dymitruk - Event Modeling Workshop
• Shopify - Shard Balancing: Moving Shops Confidently with Zero-Downtime at Terabyte-scale
• Bart de Water - Shopify’s Architecture to Handle the World’s Biggest Flash Sales
• Ben Rogojan - Realities of Being A Data Engineer — Migrations
• Hazel Weakly - Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium
• NBC News - Twitter down again? Blame Justin Bieber!
• Wired - How Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem
• Michael Plöd - Getting modules right with Domain-driven Design

DevOps

• Marc-André Moreau - Free ARM server with 4 CPUs, 24GB of RAM and 200GB storage!
• Phoenix Actions - Test Reporting - Displays test results from popular testing frameworks directly in GitHub

AI

• Meta - CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
• Science - Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning
• Meta Cicero - Code for Cicero, an AI agent that plays the game of Diplomacy with open-domain natural language negotiation
• DiploStrats - Expert Diplomacy Player vs CICERO AI
• Stability.ai - Stable Diffusion 2.0 Release
• Rob Mulla - Stable Diffusion 2.0 with Huggingface Pipelines
• Nvidia - Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation

Java

• Java Blog - Go Native with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Testing asynchronous processes with a little help from .NET Channels
• David Fowler - Thread about details of building Minimal APIs TODO sample in .NET 7
• Ben Foster - Minimal API validation with ASP.NET 7.0 Endpoint Filters
• Steve Gordon - An Introduction to System.Threading.Channels

Python

• Lex Friedman Podcast - Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
• Szymon Miks - Hexagonal Architecture in Python

Rust

• Armin Ronacher - A Better Way to Borrow in Rust: Stack Tokens

Coding Life

• ProtoHackers - Server programming challenge to create servers for network protocols
• Steve Huynh - A Life Engineered

Management

• Google - What improves developer productivity at google? code quality
• Jasper Spanjaart - 20 ways to hire more women into engineering and combat the gender gap

Industry

• Axios - Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud
• Data Protection Commission - Decision in Facebook “Data Scraping” Inquiry
• Lioness - At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”

28th November 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Mapping event type by convention
• Protocol - AWS CEO: The cloud isn’t just about technology
• Giedrius Kristinaitis - Expensive Mistake That Often Plagues Layered Architectures
• Wille Faler - Software engineering metrics that matter
• Udi Dahan - Watch out for superficial invariants
• Mark Seemann - Decouple to delete
• Adam Warski - The architecture of Mastodon
• Robert Laszczak - Software Dark Ages
• Vladik Khononov - What Is Domain-Driven Design? Chapter 4. Context Mapping

Distributed Systems

• Cloudflare - Using Apache Kafka to process 1 trillion inter-service messages
• Redpanda - Reliable Message Reprocessing with Redpanda: Dead Letter Queues

DevOps

• Trista Pan - Create Your Distributed Database on Kubernetes with Existing Monolithic Databases
• Kris Nóva - Experimenting with Federation and Migrating Accounts
• SigNoz - What is Context Propagation in Distributed Tracing?
• Microsoft - Announcing the .NET Virtual Monolithic Repository

Databases

• AirByte - How we run database migrations with Flyway, jOOQ, and testcontainers
• Riyaz Ali - SQLite Extensions - Golang library to build sqlite extensions

Frontend

• Michael Geers - The Tractor Store - sample code from the book Micro Frontends in Action

Testing

• Kent C. Dodds - The Testing Trophy and Testing Classifications

Java

• Marco Codes - How to Build a Text Editor With Java

JavaScript

• David Whitney - Test Driven Development in JavaScript – writing tests that don’t suck!

.NET

• Jason Ge - Detect and Remove Dead Code with Roslyn
• Carlos Pons - Getting started with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing in .NET Core
• Łukasz Pyrzyk - PoC of the distributed request telemetry
• Elastic - Release notes v8.0.0 for .NET Client

Industry

• The Verge - Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall

Trivia

• Cory Doctorow - Social Quitting
• TechCrunch - Zoom’s adding email and calendar as it pushes harder to expand the platform

21st November 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to get all messages through Postgres logical replication
• Zan Armstrong - Stop aggregating away the signal in your data
• Ricardo Ferreira - In the Land of the Sizing, the One-Partition Kafka Topic is King
• Engineering at Meta - Move faster, wait less: Improving code review time at Meta
• Aral Balkan - Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
• Rafael Luque - Notes about a new software world. An eXtreme DDD approach

Frontend

• Minko Genchev - Angular v15 is now available!
• Addy Osmani, Sriram Krishnan - Building a Better Web - Part 1: A faster YouTube on web

Testing

• Ian Cooper - TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong

Functional Programming

• Richard Feldman - Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm?

Azure

• Microsoft - Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Public Preview
• Microsoft - Announcing public preview of the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Function

Go

• Jeremy Clark - An overview of Go (golang) for C# developers using the CodeTour extension for Visual Studio Code

JavaScript

• Gil Tayar - Typed JavaScript? For real? The type annotations proposal and what it’s all about

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Wolverine: Your Next Messaging Library
• Dustin Moris Gorski - How fast is ASP.NET Core?
• JetBrains - C# support in Fleet Public Preview
• Oleg Kyrylchuk - Twelve C# 11 Features

OCaml

• Stephen Dolan, Leo White - Stack allocation for OCaml

WebAssembly

• Tsoding - Let's Talk About WASM and WASI

Coding Life

• Cosima Laube - Head 'n' Heart Ops - A guide to emotions without system crashes

Management

• Audun Fauchald Strand, Truls Jørgensen - Optimizing for Fast Flow in Norway's Largest Bureaucracy

Industry

• Washington Post - Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum

Trivia

• Tomasz Nurkiewicz - Mastodon: next-generation, open source social network
• Julia Angwin - Mastodon’s Moment
• Fedi.Tips - An informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
• Maarten Balliauw - Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server
• Marily Oppezzo, Daniel L. Schwartz - Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking

14th November 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How events can help in making the state-based approach efficient
• Sam Newman, Martin Fowler - When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!)
• Christin Gorman - How do our ideas about coding affect the software we create?
• Andrew Harmel-Law - Your Organisation Viewed as a Collection of Capabilities
• Ben Hall - The Modern Observability Problem

DevOps

• Schkn - Monitoring Linux Processes using Prometheus and Grafana
• k9s - Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

Databases

• Cloudflare - D1: our quest to simplify databases
• Hironobu SUZUKI - Postgres Concurrency Control
• AWS - Set up highly available PgBouncer and HAProxy with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL readers

Testing

• Kevlin Henney - Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases
• Mark Seeman - Favor real dependencies for unit testing

AWS

• Kimberly Nicholls - Migrating to Aurora: easy except the bill
• AWS - Amazon Aurora I/O Cost Optimization Methodology

Go

• Rob Pike - The Go Programming Language and Environment

Java

• HikariCP - A solid, high-performance, JDBC connection pool at last
• Piotr Przybył - Testing Virtual Threads

JavaScript

• Protobuf-ES - A complete implementation of Protocol Buffers in TypeScript, suitable for web browsers and Node.js

TypeScript

• Jonathan Cardoso - How To Use Decorators in TypeScript

.NET

• David Ramel - Did .NET MAUI Ship Too Soon? Devs Sound Off on 'Massive Mistake'
• Collin Alpert - .NET adaptation for Java's Lombok using Source Generators
• Mads Torgersen - Where’s C# headed?
• Maarten Balliauw - Profiling QuestPDF: In Pursuit of Performance

Management

• Gitte Klitgaard - Feeling Safe to be Uncomfortable

Indurstry

• .NET Rocks - David Whitney - Making Open Source Work for Everyone
• Heather Wilde - How to Close the Diversity Gap
• The Wall Street Journal - Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

Trivia

• Marcin Szałomski - A migration to Mastodon

7th November 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Never Lose Data Again - Event Sourcing to the Rescue!
• Gregor Hohpe - Architecting Cloud Solutions
• Lorna Mitchell – Designing Payloads for Event-Driven Systems
• Julian Wood - Advanced Serverless Messaging Patterns for your Applications
• Eduards Sizovs - Simple is not easy
• Zach Holman - UTC is enough for everyone ...right?

DevOps

• Traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy
• Jabe Bloom, Andrew Clay Shafer - DevOps de los Muertos
• Michał Jankowski - FinOps: Saving 7k EUR/month by 5 minutes action
• Magsther - Awesome OpenTelemetry

Functional Programming

• Felienne Hermans - Pure Functional Programming in Excel

Go

• Jesse Li - Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go

Java

• Jonathan Giles - Java Best Practices

.NET

• .NET Conf 2022
• Dustin Moris Gorski - The type system is a programmer's best friend
• Chet Husk, David Fowler - The .NET Podcast - a sample application showcasing .NET 6, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, Azure Container Apps, Orleans
• Chris Klug - Build the modular monolith first

Rust

• Steadylearner - How to use gRPC with Rust Tonic and Postgres database with examples

Tools

• Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first

Windows

• Microsoft - Power Toys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

Coding Life

• Milen Dyakov - Operational vs. Strategic DevX
• Mary Thengvall - DevRel Resources

Security

• Jonathan Scott - Pegasus Spyware — Untold — Chinese Engineering — Samples 1 & 2

Industry

• Stripe - CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees
• Guardian - Twitter slashes nearly half its workforce as Musk admits ‘massive drop’ in revenue
• Martin Fowler - Exploring Mastodon
• Remix - Remixing Shopify

Trivia

• Matthew Carlson - The Potatoes Of DOOM

31th October 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• James Hickey - Event Sourcing: Without Eventual Consistency?
• Russell Ackoff - Why Few Organizations Adopt Systems Thinking
• David Heinemeier Hansson - Why we're leaving the cloud
• Yves Goeleven - Software Delivery Process
• Mark Seemann - When to refactor
• Kurt Bittner - Architectural Frameworks, Patterns, and Tactics Are No Substitute for Making Your Own Decisions
• Thoughtworks - Technology Radar #27
• Emmanuel Bernard, Clement Escoffier - Kafka: a map of traps for the enlightened dev and op

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - How Postgres sequences issues can impact your messaging guarantees

AWS

• Matt Rickard - S3 Isn't Getting Cheaper
• Alex Chan - Aurora vs. RDS: An Engineer’s Guide to Choosing a Database
• Avinash Vallarapu - Is Aurora PostgreSQL really faster and cheaper than RDS PostgreSQL – Benchmarking

Azure

• Gaurav Malhotra - Polyglot Microservices Communication Using Dapr on AKS

Functional Programming

• Gjeta Gjyshinca - Monad I Love You Now Get Out Of My Type System

Java

• picocli - a mighty tiny command line interface
• JWebAssembly - Java bytecode to WebAssembly compiler
• Adam Warski - Protecting state using virtual threads

Kotlin

• Engineering at Meta - From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

.NET

• David Wengier - What's new in C# 11 now with less controversy!!
• Patrick Smacchia - Managed pointers, Span, ref struct, C#11 ref fields and the scoped keyword
• James Randall - CSharp port of Wolfenstein using the funky new language features
• Jeremy D. Miller - Using Context/Specification to better express complicated tests

Tools

• Smitter hane - Turn around your Git mistakes in 17 ways
• GitUI - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust
• Tailscale - Making an SSH client the hard way

Coding Life

• Mark Rendle - Programming’s Greatest Mistakes
• Karl Sutt - How to communicate effectively as a developer

Management

• Rob Rawson - Making remote and asynchronous work, work

Industry

• TechCrunch - Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
• The Verge - Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

24th October 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• [Martin Fowler - Conway's Law](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Conway's Law.html)
• GitLab - What are the benefits of a microservices architecture?
• Andrzej Ludwikowski - Message delivery and deduplication strategies
• VirtualDDD - Exploring Techniques For Modelling Bounded Context Collaboration
• Thomas Pierrain - Is DDD right-wing?

Distributed Systems

• Jack Vanlightly - Understanding How Apache Pulsar Works

DevOps

• Florin Lipan - The smallest Docker image to serve static websites

Databases

• Gunnar Morling - Open-source Change Data Capture With Debezium
• P. Bailis, A. Fekete, M.J. Franklin, A. Ghodsi, J.M. Hellerstein, I. Stoica - Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems
• David Rowley - Partition Elimination in PostgreSQL 11
• PostgresPro - SQL/JSON patches committed to PostgreSQL 15!

Testing

• Toxiproxy - A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

AI

• Chris Schneider - Test-driven development and AI machine learning
• Sarah Drummond - The future is what you think it is

Java

• Marcin Grzejszczak - Observability with Spring Boot 3
• Arch Unit - A Java architecture test library, to specify and assert architecture rules in plain Java

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Writing and testing business logic in F#
• George Kinsman - Improving Test Observability with Fixie+Seq
• Martin Thwaites - Monitoring Unit Tests with OpenTelemetry in .NET
• FsCheck - Random Testing for .NET

Node.js

• Node.js - Node.js 19 is now available

Tools

• Bebop - An extremely simple, fast, efficient, cross-platform serialization format

Management

• Amy Rigby - How to write a project status report that works for your team

Industry

• GitHub - GitHub for Startups is generally available
• Open Core Ventures - Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies

Security

• InfoQ - Two New Git Vulnerabilities Affecting Local Clones and Git Shell Patched
• Dominick Baier - OAuth – the good Parts
• WAM BAM - Recovering Web Tokens From Office

17th October 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Push-based Outbox Pattern with Postgres Logical Replication
• Bret Victor - The Future of Programming
• Adam Tornhill, Markus Borg: Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality -- A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases
• Oren Eini - On the critical importance of accepting and working with invalid data
• Derek Comartin - Event Choreography for Loosely Coupled Workflow

Distributed Systems

• Netflix - Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads
• Cloudflare - R2 is now Generally Available
• David Boike - Sure, you can just use RabbitMQ

Databases

• PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL 15 Released!
• Microsoft - Distributed PostgreSQL comes to Azure Cosmos DB
• Gunnar Morling - Open-source Change Data Capture With Debezium
• Michael Aboagye - Improve database performance with connection pooling

DevOps

• Splunk - The State of Observability 2022
• Digital Ocean - Kubernetes adoption journey for startups and SMBs
• Alex Ellis - Debug GitHub Actions with SSH and launch a cloud shell
• The Unhandled Exception - Episode 41: OpenTelemetry - with Martin Thwaites

Go

• Konstantin Makarov - Writing your own PostgreSQL driver

Java

• Tech School - Config Gradle to generate Java code from Protobuf
• JWebAssembly - Java bytecode to WebAssembly compiler

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Marten and Friend’s (Hopefully) Big Future!
• InfoQ - .NET Trends Report 2022
• Stephen Cleary - Modern C# Techniques, Part 3: Generic Code Generation
• Mark Seemann - Refactoring a saga from the State pattern to the State monad

Rust

• Amos Wenger - Remote development with Rust on fly.io

WebAssembly

• wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly

Tools

• Cassidy Williams - cass.run - My own lil URL shortener

Coding Life

• Software Engineering for busy parents

Trivia

• Lex Friedman Podcast - John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
• The Verge - The iPhone 14 keeps calling 911 on rollercoasters

10th October 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Uwe Friedrichsen - The right dose of resilience
• Richard Cook - Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems
• Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
• Jimmy Bogard - Domain-Driven Refactoring

Distributed Systems

• The InfoQ eMag: Modern Data Architectures, Pipelines, & Streams
• Confluent - What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.3

DevOps

• RedPanda - Kafka on Kubernetes: What could go wrong?
• Serverless DNS - The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Fly.io

FrontEnd

• Miklos Philips - Design Principles: why a design works
• qwik - The HTML-first framework. Instant apps of any size with ~ 1kb JS
• DaisyUI - The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

Testing

• Tokopedia - GripMock - gRPC Mock Server

Mobile

• The Linux Experiment - OPEN SOURCE your Android Phone: open source Android ROMS and apps

Java

• Brian Goetz - Paving the on-ramp
• Microsoft - How Microsoft applies Java
• Brian Vermeer - Best Practices for Managing Java Dependencies
• ArchUnit - A Java architecture test library, to specify and assert architecture rules in plain Java

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Testing business logic in Event Sourcing, and beyond!
• Patrick Smacchia - .NET Build Improvement: Stop Wasting Resources
• Ledjon Behluli - Orlean Spaces - A virtual, fully-asynchronous, Tuple Space implementation backed by Orleans.
• Jonathan George - Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migrating from Azure Functions to ASP.NET Core

Python

• Szymon Miks - Optimistic locking with Python

Management

• Continus Delivery - Randy Shoup - Leading Teams For Silicon Valley Tech Giants
• Laurence Tratt - UML: My Part in its Downfall
• Jeff Gothelf - 3 Tools to Help You Keep Track of Your OKRs

Industry

• Lisa Harvey-Smith - More women are studying STEM, but there are still stubborn workplace barriers
• Bloomberg - NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% From January Peak
• CoinDesk - It's Lonely in the Metaverse: Decentraland’s 38 Daily Active Users in a $1.3B Ecosystem

Trivia

• Abhishek Prakash - Watch Star Wars In Linux Terminal via Telnet

3rd October 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Nick Tune - Domain-Driven Design and Team Topologies for Product-led Organizations
• Ian Cooper - Managing Asynchronous APIs
• Jon Skeet - Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
• Anton Stöckl - Hexagonal Architecture: Structuring a project and the influence of granularity
• Vaughn Vernon - Modeling Uncertainty
• Yves Reynhout - Domain Modelling

Database

• Kasey Speakman - Event Storage in Postgres, Multi-tenant
• Amit Kapila - Logical Replication Improvements In PostgreSQL-14

DevOps

• Mike Long - Does the GitOps Emperor Have No Clothes?

Frontend

• HTTP Archive - Web Almanac 2022. Annual state of the web report
• P. Schmitt - Big Techday 22: Future of the Frontend: The End of Single-Page Applications?

AI

• Waxy - AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability

AWS

• Bite-Sized Serverless - Serverless Messaging: Latency Compared

Java

• Auth0 - Micro Frontends for Java Microservices

.NET

• Daniel Marbach - How we achieved 5X faster pipeline execution by removing closure allocations
• Microsoft - Microsoft Teams’ Infrastructure and Azure Communication Services’ Journey to .NET 6
• Irina Scurtu - Embracing gRPC in .NET
• Steve Lorello - Probabilistic Data Structures

TypeScript

• Microsoft - Ten Years of TypeScript

Tools

• GitHub - Git’s database internals I: packed object store

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Dive a bit deeper, look a bit wider
• Szymon Kulec - One software developer with two jobs

Management

• Charity Majors - The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
• Google - Are you an Elite DevOps performer? Find out with the Four Keys Project

Industry

• Pew Research Center - Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022

Security

• Connor Tumbleson - Someone is pretending to be me

Trivia

• Mike Rother - Teaching Scientific Thinking is Important Work

26th September 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Nathan Schutta - Thinking Architecturally
• Edward Z. Yang - Bugs and Battleships
• Adam Tal - First make the change easy, then make the easy change
• Benek Lisefski - The pros and cons of Big Design Up Front — and what I do instead
• Forrest Brazeal - The cloud billing risk that scares me most as a developer
• Stefan Tilkov: Why software architects fail – and what to do about it
• Ralph Kimball - Design Tip #51: Latest Thinking On Time Dimension Tables
• Jon Moore and Marty Cagan - Changing How You Decide Which Problems To Solve

Databases

• Robert Treat - Logical Replication...LIVE!
• Dmitry Narizhnykh - PostgreSQL Change Data Capture and Golang Sample Code
• Andrzej Ludwikowski - Reactive Event Sourcing benchmarks, part 2: PostgreSQL

DevOps

• NGINX - Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, 2nd Edition

Frontend

• Myles Braithwaite - Awesome Static Web Site Generators
• Nathaniel - Why your website should be under 14kB in size

Testing

• Steve Freeman - Test Smell: Everything is mocked

Java

• InfoQ - Java 19 Delivers Features for Projects Loom, Panama and Amber
• Deepu K Sasidharan - What the Heck Is Project Loom for Java?
• Roman Elizarov — Structured concurrency

.NET

• Martin Thwaites - Distributed Tracing in .NET 6 using OpenTelemetry
• Michal Strehovský - PublishAotCompressed - Compresses the publish AOT compilation result
• Microsoft - Announcing .NET 7 Release Candidate 1
• dnSkpyEx - Unofficial revival of the well known .NET debugger and assembly editor, dnSpy

TypeScript

• TypeScript Tips - A collection of useful tips that you wish you knew when you started using TypeScript

Windows

• Azure Academy - Windows 11 Tabs

Management

• Oskar Dudycz - On the importance of setting boundaries in team management
• Ben Matthews - Does high velocity lead to burnout? That may be the wrong question to ask

Product Design

• Varun Cheedalla - Microsoft Kin—The Billion Dollar Smartphone Disaster

Industry

• InformationWeek - Growth Slows for Cloud Giants AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure
• Business Insider - The 'last man' selling floppy-disks says airlines continue to make orders for the ancient storage technology
• Slate - Could the Internet Archive Go Out Like Napster?

19th September 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Neal Ford - Architecture. The Hard Parts
• Gergely Orosz - Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These
• Orta Therox - Why we added an RFC process to Artsy
• Mauro Servienti - Autonomy probably doesn't mean what you think it means
• Gregor Hohpe - The Architect Elevator: Connecting Penthouse and Engine
• Nathan Peck - Microservice Principles: Smart Endpoints and Dumb Pipes
• Kristopher Sandoval - What Does ‘Smart Endpoints and Dumb Pipes’ Mean?
• Susanne Kaiser - Architecture for Flow with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies

Databases

• SurrealDB - A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

DevOps

• Zalando - Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
• CrunchyData - Crunchy Postgres Operator for Kubernetes
• Michael Staib - GraphQL Observability with Elastic and OpenTelemetry

Testing

• Mikael Vesavuori - TripleCheck CLI — The easiest and fastest way to do contract testing

Tools

• Structurizr DSL - Allows you to create multiple diagrams based upon the C4 model, in multiple output formats, from a single DSL source file
• Context Mapper - A Modeling Framework for Strategic Domain-driven Design
• Asciidoctor - A fast text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more

Go

• Google Cloud Blog - Why I love Go

JVM

• Gradle - A Better Way to Use Gradle With Github Actions

.NET

• Szymon Kulec - A Gentle Introduction To Low-Level Concurrency In .NET
• Bryan Hogan - .NET 7 Custom Runtime for AWS Lambda
• Dariusz Woźniak - List of Automated Testing (TDD/BDD/ATDD/SBE) Tools and Frameworks for .NET
• Mark Seemann - ASP.NET validation revisited

Rust

• Amos Wenger - Rust modules vs files

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - It doesn't have to be toxic at work
• Emily Nakashima - Power Bends Light
• James Clear - How to be More Productive and Eliminate Time Wasting Activities by Using the “Eisenhower Box”

Management

• Alfonso Franco - Team topology: 6 “first principles” for product leaders

Industry

• PCMag - 'No One Is Profitable': GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge

Security

• TechCrunch - Uber investigating cybersecurity incident after hacker breaches its internal network
• Cybernews - Revolut breach: personal and banking data exposed
• The Verge - A utility company locked thousands of customers out of their smart thermostats in Colorado

12th September 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Stefan Tilkov - "Good Enough" Architecture
• Derek Comartin - Does CAP Theorem apply to Microservices?
• Poul-Henning Kamp - You're Doing It Wrong. Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
• Spotify - Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted
• Joel Parker Henderson - Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation
• Kevlin Henney - Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks
• Anton Stöckl - Event Sourcing explained

Distributed Systems

• Eliran Wolf - How we cut data costs by more than 60% by leveraging a multi-cloud strategy
• Ryan Rodemoyer - What I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me About Using Rabbitmq Before It Was Too Late

DevOps

• Sumo Logic - OpenTelemetry Workshop

Database

• Ben Johnson - How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works

Testing

• NBomber - Enterprise Examples

AI

• Willem Meints - How to deploy Airflow with Kubernetes and GIT

Functional Programming

• Alexis King - Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Event Versioning with Marten
• Jeremy D. Miller - Developing Error Handling Strategies for Asynchronous Messaging
• Oleg Kyrylchuk - Twelve C# 11 Features
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Playwright tests with XUnit
• David Fowler - A sample plugin model for ASP.NET Core applications

Node.js

• S(n) - Mailing - Build, test, send emails with React
• ESLint - ESLint's new config system, Part 1: Background

Rust

• Async Raft - An implementation of the Raft distributed consensus protocol using the Tokio framework

Coding Life

• Gunnar Morling - The Code Review Pyramid
• MTDV - Every Programmer Should Know - A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know about

Industry

• Lightbend - Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
• The Register - Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights
• Heroku - Heroku’s Next Chapter

Security

• Visual Studio Magazine - Electron-Based App Vulnerabilities Hit VS Code, Microsoft Teams

Trivia

• Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Winston Churchill on “painting as a pastime”
• MyOwnClone - Quake 1 port to Apple Watch

5th September 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Scott Wlaschin - Designing with Capabilities
• Christoph Knauf - Architecture documentation as code with Structurizr and Asciidoctor. Part 1: Workflow and tooling
• Iain Cambridge - GDPR For Developers By Example
• Alberto Brandolini - Collaborative Process Modelling with EventStorming
• Happy Path Programming Podcast - The End of Ivory Tower Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law
• Peter Royal - Event Sourced Business Applications

DevOps

• Meadowrun - Kubernetes Was Never Designed for Batch Jobs
• How to manage multiple environments with Terraform
• Jason Kulatunga - Running Cron in Docker

Testing

• Jakub Pilimon, Layla Porter - Write More Maintainable, Testable Code with Dependency Injection
• Marco Behler - Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide

AI

• Simon Willison - Stable Diffusion is a really big deal

Hardware

• The Guardian - Why Japan’s war on disks could prove to be another flop

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Slim your aggregates with Event Sourcing!
• Jon P. Smith - A .NET distributed cache with a ~25 nanosecond read time!
• Andrew Lock - Using CancellationTokens in ASP.NET Core minimal APIs
• Microsoft - Performance Improvements in .NET 7

Swift

• Swift - Moving “The Swift Programming Language” book to open source

Tools

• GitHub - Release Radar · August 2022 Edition
• ASCIIFlow - A client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams

WebAssembly

• Second State - Running JavaScript in WebAssembly with WasmEdge

Coding Life

• Dylan Beattie - Plain Text
• Joe Dunleavy - Contributing to open source - taking the dive
• Amir Rachum - How to pick a starter project that'll make someone quit

Industry

• Protocol - Cloudflare tries to ignore the world
• Cloudflare - The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today
• Cloudflare - Blocking Kiwifarms

Security

• AWSGoat - A Damn Vulnerable AWS Infrastructure
• Daniel Stenberg - A bug that was 23 years old or not

Trivia

• Praneet Rohida - The production ratio and the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom

29th August 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Jimmy Bogard - Domain-Driven Refactoring
• Derek Comartin - Data Partitioning! Don't let growth SLOW you down!
• LaunchDarkly - Evolving Global Flag Delivery - Flag Delivery at Edge
• Herberto Graça - DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together

Distributed Systems

• Shiju Varghese - Building Distributed Event Streaming Systems In Go With NATS JetStream
• Instagram Engineering - Sharding & IDs at Instagram
• Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier - The canonical spec for ulid

Databases

• Kevin Sookocheff - Write-ahead logging and the ARIES crash recovery algorithm. How do databases recover from failure?
• Andrzej Ludwikowski - Reactive Event Sourcing benchmarks, part 1: PostgreSQL
• LiteFS - FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines
• Justin Graf - PostgreSQL and Financial Calculations - Part One

Frontend

• Virtual Domain-Driven Design - Domain-Driven Frontend with Francesco Strazzullo
• Mauro Servienti - Designing a UI for Microservices
• Microsoft - Fluid Framework - Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications

AI

• João Pedro - Machine Learning Streaming with Kafka, Debezium, and BentoML
• The Register - GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises

Azure

• Kamil Mrzygłód - ACE (Azure Cost Estimator) - automated cost estimations for ARM Templates & Biceps
• Azure - The Azure SaaS Development Kit (ASDK) - provides a reference architecture, deployable reference implementation and tools to help developers, startups, ISVs and Enterprises deliver their applications as a SaaS service. A platform for platform creators.

.NET

• Tomasz Pęczek - Micro Frontends in Action With ASP.NET Core - Composition via Blazor WebAssembly Based Web Components
• Mads Torgersen - The functional journey of C#
• Microsoft - Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK
• Patrick Smacchia - C# 11 Raw String Literals Explained

Node.js

• Zod - TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - How playing on guitar can help you to be a better developer?

Management

• Emily Nakashima - An Engineering Manager's Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)
• Continuous Delivery - Agile & Scrum Don't Work | Allen Holub In The Engineering Room
• Scrum Sessions Podcast - Episode 01 with special guest Dr. Jeff Sutherland

Security

• CNN - Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies
• Microsoft - MagicWeb: NOBELIUM’s post-compromise trick to authenticate as anyone

Trivia

• Gergely Orosz - Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice

22nd August 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Rebecca Wirf-Brock - Responsibility-Driven Design
• David Bryant Copeland - A Framework for Product Design Beyond the Happy Path
• Hillel Wayne - I have complicated feelings about TDD
• Engineering at Meta - Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
• The Register - Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again
• Azure DevOps Podcast - Greg Young: CQRS and EventSourcing
• Bennie Johnston - Process Managers
• FIX Trading Community - FIX Latest Online Specification of the application layer of the FIX Protocol
• securiti.ai - Right to delete under California Consumer Privacy Act

Distributed Systems

• Allen Helton - Starting Over With Purpose - My Serverless Adventure

DevOps

• Jose Adan Ortiz - Awesome Cloud Native Trainings
• StackBlitz - WebContainer

Databases

• CrunchyData - Learn Postgres at the Playground

Frontend

• Kent C. Dodds - When to break up a component into multiple components
• SnoopForms - The Open-source Typeform Alternative

Testing

• James Shore - Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

Hardware

• Raymond Chen - Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers

Azure

• Microsoft - Windows Authentication for Azure AD principals for SQL Managed Instance is now Generally Available

Clojure

• Janet A. Carr - Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 1)

JavaScript

• Deno - Big Changes Ahead for Deno

.NET

• Ubuntu - Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers
• Oskar Dudycz - Pragmatic Event Sourcing in .NET With Marten
• Jeremy D. Miller - Event Sourcing and CQRS with Marten

Rust

• Dhghomon - Rust for Fsharpers and F# for Rustaceans

Scala

• Adam Warski - Implementing Raft using a functional effect system

Coding Life

• Jessica Kerr - Those pesky pull request reviews

Security

• CSO - Google Cloud blocks largest HTTPS DDoS attack ever

Trivia

• Seattle Times - For Gravity Payments CEO, social media was bullhorn and way to lure women
• Susan Cain - The power of introverts

15th August 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• InfoQ - Panel: the True Bottleneck in Software Engineering - Cognitive Load
• Jeremy D. Miller - Putting SOLID into Perspective
• Oskar Dudycz - Why are we afraid of our decisions?
• Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski - Story 2: Call it microservices…or distributed modules?
• Damian Płaza - Organization-Driven Design
• W3C - Decentralized Identifiers
• Nick Tune, Kacper Gunia - Independent Value Streams with Domain-Driven Design

Distributed Systems

• Tsviatko Yovtchev - SQS FIFO Queues: Message Ordering and Exactly-Once Processing Guaranteed?
• Carl Mastrangelo - Why Does gRPC Insist on Trailers?

Databases

• Alex Garcia - Introducing sqlite-http: A SQLite extension for making HTTP requests

DevOps

• Colima - container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
• InfoQ - Are Recursive Serverless Functions the Biggest Billing Risk on the Cloud?

Frontend

• Jamie Turner - Let's use Convex with SolidJS!

Functional Programming

• John De Goes - What Functional Programming Can Learn From Object-Oriented Programming

Go

• Sqlc - Compile SQL to type-safe code

Java

• Java Platform Evolution

.NET

• Layla Porter - Building a Topic Exchange with RabbitMQ and .NET 6
• Filip Wojnarowski - dotnet script - Run C# scripts from the .NET CLI
• Explore Entity Framework quickly
• Maarten Balliauw - Happy 5th birthday, Rider 🥳

Coding Life

• Birgitta Böckeler, Nina Siessegger - On Pair Programming
• Woody Zuill - Mob Programming and the Power of Flow
• Anjuan Simmons - Lending Privilege
• Dennis Doomen - How I keep my Git source control history clean
• Matt Rickard - Commit Messages Don’t Matter
• Bret Cameron - Why the Dunning-Kruger Curves You’ve Seen Are Wrong

Security

• Programming With Style - How I Hacked my Car
• ArsTechnica - North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail
• Twilio - Incident Report: Employee and Customer Account Compromise

Industry

• Bloomberg - Apple Slows Pace of Dealmaking Even as Its Tech Peers Plow Ahead
• Business Insider - Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff he's upping performance goals to get rid of employees who 'shouldn't be here,' report says

8th August 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Gregor Hohpe - Mastering the Architecture Mindset
• Trond Hjorteland - Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
• Pete Hodgson - Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working for You
• Jérémie Chassaing - Event Sourcing vs Command Sourcing

Databases

• AWS - Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service
• Alex DeBrie - Key Takeaways from the DynamoDB Paper

DevOps

• Steven Giesel - Git-Flow, GitHub-Flow, Gitlab-Flow and Trunk Based Development explained

Frontend

• Luis Aviles - Routing Management with LitElement and TypeScript
• Angular - Minko Gechev - 4 Runtime Performance Optimizations

Go

• Go Blog - Go 1.19 is released!

.NET

• On .NET Live - LINQ to GraphQL: Query GraphQL with LINQ syntax with Giorgi Dalakishvili
• EfficientDynamoDB - High-performance C# DynamoDb library
• AWSLabs - AWS Lambda Powertools for .NET - A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda Functions that makes tracing with AWS X-Ray, structured logging and creating custom metrics asynchronously easier
• FluentMermaid - Mermaid.js fluent api for .NET
• Hirotada Kobayashi - PlantUmlClassDiagramGenerator - This is a generator to create a class-diagram of PlantUML from the C# source code

Node.js

• Oskar Dudycz - Straightforward Event Sourcing with TypeScript and NodeJS

Rust

• Aleksey Kladov - Almost Rules
• SourceGear Rust - Rust extension for Visual Studio

WebAssembly

• Gavin Ray - A Quarkus app that allows deploying WASM & and other language functions as API handlers at runtime, using GraalVM

Coding Life

• Sebastian Gebski - A tech career advice: learn to set pieces

Management

• Lucas F. Costa - Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix them
• Guy Dickinson - Skills as a System
• N. Meslec, I. Aggarwal, P.L. Curseu - The Insensitive Ruins It All: Compositional and Compilational Influences of Social Sensitivity on Collective Intelligence in Groups

Product Design

• Jason Beres - Why DesignOps Matters: How to Improve Your Design Processes

Industry

• Machable - How fraudulent DMCA takedowns censored a prominent cryptocurrency critic on Substack

Trivia

• Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge

1st August 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Alicja Halamska, Dawid Kubicki - Exploring GraphQL’s performance tradeoffs
• Miki Pokryvailo - Shipping multi-tenant SaaS using Postgres Row-Level Security
• Jessica Kerr - To share the work, share the decisions
• Michael Plöd - Context Maps - a deep dive
• Mathias Verraes - Bandwidth and Context Mapping
• Simon Brown - Visualising software architecture with the C4 model
• DDDEU - A Commune in the Ivory Tower? - A New Approach to Architecture

Databases

• Greg Young - Building an Event Storage

DevOps

• Kristof Kowalski - otelgen - A tool to generate synthetic OpenTelemetry logs, metrics and traces

Functional Programming

• Cassidy Williams - Functional Programming 101

C++

• Google - Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
• Maslow's Inferno - Unreal Engine Tutorials

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Union types in C#
• Jeremy D. Miller - Projecting Marten Events to a Flat Table
• Christophe Nasarre - Digging into the CLR Diagnostics IPC Protocol in C#
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Entity Framework Core with PostgreSQL and Timescale
• FSharp Companies - Community curated list of companies that use F#

Coding Life

• Marcin Kern - Does business care about programming languages?

Management

• GitHub - Planning next to your code – GitHub Projects is now generally available

Product Design

• Phil Haack - Lessons From a Startup Pivot

Industry

• TechPays.com - Information about salaries in tech industry
• Cindy Sridharan - Why Success Is Often Elusive at the Highest Echelons
• Mashable - Slack finally realized that Slack makes permanent remote work possible

Security

• Indent - Indent for Tailscale
• Chinmayi Sharma - Open-Source Security: How Digital Infrastructure Is Built on a House of Cards

Trivia

• type-signature.com - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - but with types
• Giscuss - A comment system powered by GitHub Discussions
• 1x Engineer

25th July 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to effectively compose your business logic
• Anton Stöckl - Event Sourcing: Why Kafka is not suitable as an Event Store
• David Boike - Let's talk about Kafka
• Bob Nystrom - Game Programming Patterns
• Tony Hoare - Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
• Byron Ruth - Implementing an event store on NATS: Design
• InfoQ - Susanne Kaiser on DDD, Wardley Mapping, & Team Topologies

Distributed Systems

• The Register - Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites

Databases

• Oren Eini - Efficiency all the way to Out of Memory error

API

• HTMX - How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?

Frontend

• Yves Goeleven - Building offline Progressive Web Apps

AI

• Jeremy Howard - Practical Deep Learning for Coders
• Emmanuel Raj - Engineering MLOps

Java

• OpenJDK - Project Amber

.NET

• Daniel Marbach - Performance tricks I learned from contributing to open source .NET packages
• NDepend - Visual Studio vs. Jetbrains Rider Performance
• .NET Rocks! - WASM Everywhere with Steve Sanderson
• Brian Surowiec - dotnet-run-script - A dotnet tool to run arbitrary commands from a project's "scripts" object

Go

• Karan Pratap Singh - Go Course

JavaScript

• Shawn Wang - Bun and Deno: New Runtimes for the Third Age of JavaScript

Node.js

• Software Engineering Daily - Remix with Ryan Florence

Coding Life

• Martin Fowler - Advocate, educator, and authorial stance

Security

• Bruce Schneier - Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
• The Citizen Lab - GeckoSpy - Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement

Trivia

• Maxim Gumin - MarkovJunior - Probabilistic language based on pattern matching and constraint propagation

18th July 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Neal Ford - Granularity and Communication Tradeoffs in Microservices
• Z. Zhang, M. K. Ramanathan, P. Raj, and A. Parwal, T. Sherwood, M. Chabbi - CRISP: Critical Path Analysis of Large-Scale Microservice Architectures
• Oskar Dudycz - Event-driven distributed processes by example
• Andrzej Ludwikowski - Event Sourcing - what could possibly go wrong?

Distributed Systems

• SoftwareMill - Kafka Visualization
• Antón Rodríguez - Monitoring Kafka without instrumentation using eBPF

DevOps

• Adrian Smijulj - GitHub Actions - Workflows as Code

Databases

• Daniel Palma - High-performance open-source Data Lakehouse at home
• Replibyte - Seed your development database with real data

AI

• Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan - Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science
• Simon Willison - Using GPT-3 to explain how code works

AWS

• AWS Compute Blog - Simplifying serverless best practices with AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript

Go

• Egon Elbre - lensm - Go assembly and source viewer

Google Cloud

• InfoWorld - Google Cloud targets high performance workloads with Arm-based VMs and Batch job scheduling

.NET

• Dina Bogdan - Intro to Virtual Actors by Microsoft Orleans
• Microsoft - Announcing Rate Limiting for .NET
• Marc Gravell - Unusual optimizations; ref foreach and ref returns
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - EF Core and Minimal API sample for multi-tenancy example using global filters

Rust

• Dorian Scheidt - Improving “Extract Function” in Rust Analyzer
• Gaëtan Renaudeau - Plottable Era: (I) Primitive

WebAssembly

• Colin Breck - Why Am I Excited About WebAssembly?

Coding Life

• Nicolas Dao - What you need to know to choose an open source license

Management

• Paweł Huryn - Watch Out, Waterfall Ahead! The Truth About SAFe
• CA Technologies - The Impact of Agile. Quantified.

Industry

• TechTarget - What the Broadcom-VMware acquisition means for cloud users

Trivia

• Gunnar Morling - Ten Tips to Make Conference Talks Suck Less
• The Verge - BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month

11th July 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Is keeping dates in UTC really the best solution?
• T. Bøgh Fangel & B. Nielsen - Event driven architecture & hyperbygrowth
• Chris Condron - Process Managers Made Simple
• Martin Fowler - TolerantReader
• Mark Seemann - Postel's law as a profunctor
• Derek Comartin - What is Software Architecture?

Distributed Systems

• Corey Keller - How to Relieve Backpressure In Message-Based Systems
• Alyssa Wilk - HTTP/3, Including Google's Adoption, and Benefits and Challenges

Databases

• Rafal Wilinski - DynamoDB Streams - The Ultimate Guide (w/ Examples)

JavaScript

• bun - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler and package manager – all in one
• Gary Bernhardt - The Birth & Death of JavaScript
• Jakub T. Jankiewicz - Wayne - Service Worker Routing library for in browser HTTP requests

Java

• Oskar Dudycz - Introduction to Event Sourcing in Java - Self-paced kit
• Fabian Stäber - How to capture Spring Boot metrics with the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation Agent
• Tom Hombergs - Tracing with Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger

Linux

• Bryan Lunduke - Linux Sucks 2022

.NET

• Ian Russell - Essential F# (Free ebook)
• Jérémie Chassaing - F# Deciders implementation
• Manfred Steyer - Proof of Concept for an Auth Gateway for SPA
• Andrew Lock - Consuming anonymous types with DiagnosticListener in .NET 6

Tools

• Visual Studio Code - The Visual Studio Code Server

Coding Life

• The Hanselminutes podcast - Engineering Stack Overflow with Roberta Arcoverde

Management

• Peter Aughton, Trond Hjorteland - An Open Systems Thinking perspective on Agile transformation
• Runtastic - How we improved our sprints when we stopped estimating stories

Security

• Troy Hunt - Welcoming the Polish Government to Have I Been Pwned
• Keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System"
• CNET - Apple's Lockdown Mode: Why There's a New Level of Security for Your iPhone

Industry

• Reuters - Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal

4th July 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Derek Comartin - Avoiding Batch Jobs by a message in the FUTURE
• Mark Seemann - Fractal Architecture
• Nick Tune - The Structure and Process Fallacy
• Kenny Baas-Schwegler - Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Distributed Systems

• Cockroach Labs - Why We Run Managed CockroachDB on Kubernetes

Databases

• Pat Helland - I'm SO Glad I'm Uncoordinated: Coordination Is Increasingly Painful... What Can Be Done?
• Zalando: Enriching E-Commerce Search with Elasticsearch 8's k-Nearest Neighbours

API

• Oskar Dudycz - Should you generate the client code from the API?
• Julien Topçu - REST next level : Crafting business-oriented web APIs

Go

• Byron Ruth - Rita - Toolkit for event-centric and reactive patterns leveraging NATS

.NET

• Tomasz Pęczek - Micro Frontends in Action With ASP.NET Core - Server-Side Routing via YARP in Azure Container Apps
• AngleSharp - The ultimate angle brackets parser library parsing HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specifications
• Octokit.Webhooks - GitHub webhook events toolset for .NET
• Steve Sanderson - Experimental WASI SDK for .NET Core

Python

• John Bywater - Event Sourced Building Blocks for DDD with Python

Tools

• Upptime - Free uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub
• Scott Hanselman - Developing for Linux on Windows
• GitHub - Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor

Coding Life

• Computer History Museum - Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1
• Computer History Museum - Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 2
• Dev Interrupted - The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs

Industry

• Dustin Moris Gorski - Fund OSS through package managers
• Software Freedom Conservancy - Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Security

• Troy Hunt - Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity
• Ryan Badger - “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.

Trivia

• Bridget Kromhout - in the kingdom of the blind
• ifuckinghatejira.com

27th June 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Jessica Kerr - Systems Thinking for Developers
• Susanne Kaiser - Building Adaptive Systems For a Fast Flow of Change
• Adam Furmanek - Ordering the chaos - cleaning logs and ordering events in microservices
• Gandalf Hudlow - The value destroying effect of arbitrary date pressure on code

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - Unobvious things you need to know about key-value stores
• Azure Cosmos DB - Data modeling & partitioning: What every relational database dev needs to know
• Amit Kapila - Logical Replication Improvements In PostgreSQL-14

DevOps

• Yacht - A web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments
• Skaffold - Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

Testing

• Mark Seemann - Some thoughts on naming tests
• Ian Cooper - TDD Revisited
• James Shore - Acceptance Testing Revisited
• Aslak Hellesøy - BDD is not test automation

Azure

• Microsoft - New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps

Java

• Java - Structured Concurrency

.NET

• Sean Killeen - .NET OSS Maintainer Support Survey – The Results!
• Jérémie Chassaing - eskv - In-memory key/value and event store, for educational purposes
• Domn Werner - C# discriminated union source generator
• Nick Chapsas - .NET-Backend-Developer-Roadmap

Rust

• Rust - Rustlings - Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!

Tools

• Mermaid - C4 Diagrams
• MinJae Kwon - Diagrams - Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
• Helix - A post-modern modal text editor

Coding Life

• Thierry de Pauw - On the Evilness of Feature Branching - A Tale of Two Teams

Product Design

• Joe Procopio - This Is Why Your Customers Hate Your Minimum Viable Product

Trivia

• Scientific American - Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down
• The Hanselminutes podcast - 3D Movie Maker Forever with Foone Turing

20th June 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• B. Fan, Hy. Lim, D. G. Andersen, M. Kaminsky - Small Cache, Big Effect: Provable Load Balancing for Randomly Partitioned Cluster Services
• Kent Beck - Outcome Over Output: Also Impact and Effort
• Lutz Hühnken - Event Collaboration And Event Sourcing

Distributed Systems

• LinkedIn - How LinkedIn customizes Apache Kafka for 7 trillion messages per day
• Apple - Meet distributed actors in Swift

Databases

• Alex Merced - Comparison of Data Lake Table Formats (Iceberg, Hudi and Delta Lake)

Frontend

• InfoQ - Angular 14 - Typed Forms and Standalone Components
• Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen - The Angular Developer's Nx Handbook

Testing

• Blockade - Docker-based utility for testing network failures and partitions in distributed applications

AI

• The Washington Post - The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
• Blake Lemoine - Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview

Edge Computing

• Timescale - How Conserv Safeguards History: Building an Environmental Monitoring and Preventive Conservation IoT Platform

Low Level

• Project Stretch - Planning a Computer System

JavaScript

• Miłosz Piechocki - Implementing API Polling with RxJS

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Ogooreck, a sneaky testing library in BDD style
• Oleksii Holub - Learning F# by Designing Your Own Language
• Microsoft Docs - Code-first gRPC services and clients with .NET
• Nevermore - A micro-ORM that treats SQL Server as a document store
• Microsoft - Microsoft closed part of source codes for C# VSCode extension

TypeScript

• Matt Pocock - TypeScript tips and Tricks with Matt

Management

• Charity Majors - Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder

Industry

• GeekWire - Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit

Security

• Adrian Colyer - ACIDRain: concurrency-related attacks on database backed web applications
• Molly White - Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?
• Wired - Smartphones Blur the Line Between Civilian and Combatant
• ArsTechnica - Credentials for thousands of open source projects free for the taking—again!
• Steve Syfuhs - Understanding Windows Authentication

13th June 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• AWS Prescriptive Guidance - Using architectural decision records to streamline technical decision-making for a software development project
• Pierre Pureur - Software Architecture: It Might Not Be What You Think It Is
• Oskar Dudycz - Should you throw an exception when rebuilding the state from events?
• Exploring Axon Podcast - DDD, CQRS, EDA in the Front-End
• InfoQ - Andrew Harmel-Law - The Architecture Advice Process

Distributed Systems

• Gwen Shapira - The Magical Rebalance Protocol of Apache Kafka

Databases

• Alex Petrov - Algorithms behind Modern Storage Systems

AI

• European Parliament Think Tank - AI and digital tools in workplace management and evaluation: An assessment of the EU’s legal framework

API

• Eric Wilde - What is HTTP/3 and what does it mean for APIs?
• Mark Nottingham - A New Definition of HTTP
• IETF - HTTP/3
• Kim Lane - A Standardized, Specification-Driven API Lifecycle

Frontend

• Learn With Jason - Build an Ecommerce Site Using Stripe and Gatsby

Edge Computing

• Arturo Lotito - Stretching the IoT Edge performance limits

Java

• InfoWorld - JDK 19: The new features in Java 19

.NET

• Andreas Gullberg Larsen - Units.NET - Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better
• Jeremy D. Miller - Marten just got better for CQRS architectures
• Simon Cropp - XunitContext - Extends xUnit to expose extra context and simplify logging
• Marcin Budny - Comparing .NET virtual actor frameworks

Node.js

• Nexe - create a single executable out of your node.js apps

Python

• Event Sourcing in Python - Python package for eventsourcing with EventStoreDB

Coding Life

• Mike Hadlow - The Configuration Complexity Clock

Management

• Docker - Building Stronger, Happier Engineering Teams with Team Topologies

Industry

• The Verge - Apple’s giving up ground in its App Store fight with Dutch regulators and Tinder

Security

• ArsTechnica - “Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is… easy to forge

6th June 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Gregor Hohpe - Enterprise Architecture = Architecting the Enterprise?
• Ralph Johnson, Joe Armstrong - the State of OOP
• InfoQ - Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2022
• Interview Ready - System Design Resources
• Quanta Magazine - The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math

Distributed Systems

• Jepsen - Redpanda 21.10.1 Review

DevOps

• Ian Crosby - Kubernetes in Real Life

Databases

• Fly.io - Free Postgres Databases

AI

• KDNuggets - Machine Learning Cheat Sheets

AWS

• Real World Crypto conference - Shay Gueron - AWS key management service KMS
• MHLabs - cfn-diagram - CLI tool to visualise CloudFormation/SAM/CDK stacks as visjs networks, draw.io or ascii-art diagrams.

Java

• Jim Cownie - To sched_yield() Or Not To sched_yield()?
• Andrey Pechkurov - Scalable Readers-Writer Lock

.NET

• Gérald Barré - Round-robin DNS support in .NET HttpClient
• Uno Platform - Release 4.3 – Figma Plugin, Uno Extensions, Material Design 3 Support, New Sample App and more
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Change C# Record Comparison with Source Generators
• LinkDotNet.Blog - A blog (engine) completely written in C# and Blazor

TypeScript

• Microsoft - Announcing TypeScript 4.7

Tools

• GitHub - GitHub is free for teams

Coding Life

• Silvia Botros - Not My Job
• Tim Ottinger - Managing Interruptions
• Oskar Dudycz - Why I'm leaving Event Store and getting ready for the next episode

Management

• Toxic work cultures make Best Employees Quit

Industry

• Jason Cohen - The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
• Tech a break meetup - Gender inequality in tech
• Reuters - Musk sued by Twitter investors for stock 'manipulation' during takeover bid
• MSN - Video game developers want fair online games. Some players really don’t

Trivia

• BuzzFeed - Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show

30th May 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Eric Evans - Getting Started with DDD when surrounded by legacy systems
• Thomas Pierrain - Hexagonal != Layers
• Eleanor Kolossovski - A Strategist’s Guide to Platform Thinking
• Mathias Verraes - Conway’s Law Doesn’t Apply to Rigid Designs
• Mustapha Hadid - Software Architecture Books
• Gregor Hohpe - The Architect’s Path (Part 2 - Bookshelf)
• Aaron Stannard - High Optionality Programming: Software Architectures that Reduce Technical Debt - Part 1

Databases

• Daniel Holt - CockroachDB vs AWS Aurora
• CockroachDB - Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible

API

• Asbjørn Ulsberg - The REST And Then Some
• Stefan Tilkov - REST: I don't Think it Means What You Think it Does

AI

• DAIR.AI - Transformer Recipe

AWS

• CDK Day - CDK Day May 2022 Recordings - Track 1

Go

• Fiber - Express inspired web framework written in Go

Hardware

• Endgaget - Microsoft's Project Volterra is a mini PC for ARM developers

JavaScript

• js-joda - Immutable date and time library for JavaScript

.NET

• Grzegorz Orwat - Decorating Command Handlers Using MediatR and ASP.NET Core DI
• .NET Blog - The Azure Cosmos DB Journey to .NET 6
• Coravel - Near-zero config .NET Core library that makes Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Mailing, Event Broadcasting (and more) a breeze!
• .NET Blog - Introducing .NET MAUI – One Codebase, Many Platforms

TypeScript

• Drew Colthorp - Flavoring: Flexible Nominal Typing for TypeScript

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Power of ignorance, or how to write simple code

Management

• Melanie S. Brucks, Jonathan Levav - Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

Security

• The Hacker News - Nearly 100,000 NPM Users' Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach
• The Linux Foundation - The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan

Trivia

• Yves Lorphelin - 31 years and about 6000 hours later
• Patrick Stoke - No, you’re not entitled to your opinion

23rd May 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - What onion has to do with Clean Code?
• InfoQ - Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices with Holly Cummins
• Antoine Craske - Airbnb's Microservices Architecture Journey To Quality Engineering
• Roni Dover - Improving Code Design With OpenTelemetry — A Practical Guide
• Carola Lilienthal - When we lose sight of our domain
• Alexey Zimarev - The Right Way
• Gary Bernhardt - Boundaries
• Noah Sussman - Falsehoods programmers believe about time

Distributed Systems

• Provectus - Kafka-ui - Open-Source Web GUI for Apache Kafka Management
• BlueSky - A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol
• The Verge - Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code

Databases

• Alex Vondrak - How Time Series Databases Work—and Where They Don't
• VentureBeat - Why SQLite may become foundational for digital progress

Hardware

• Singularity Hub - Moore’s Law: Scientists Just Made a Graphene Transistor Gate the Width of an Atom

AWS

• Daniel Schroeder - IAM Floyd - AWS IAM policy statement generator with fluent interface

Edge Computing

• Turing Pi 2 - Reliable, scalable, cloud-native computer for the edge

Go

• Chris Noring - Go, from the beginning

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Multi-Tenancy with Marten
• .NET Conf - 2021 - Focus on F# Recording
• StrathWeb - Running .NET 7 apps on WASI on arm64 Mac
• Gérald Barré - Getting telemetry data from inside or outside a .NET application

Kotlin

• Johan Haleby - Pragmatic Event Sourcing with Pure Functions

Python

• Plotly - Dash - Analytical Web Apps for Python, R, Julia, and Jupyter. No JavaScript Required.

TypeScript

• Yuriy Bogomolov - Compile-time validation of UUIDs
• Jose Granja - Mastering TypeScript Template Literal Types

Industry

• Lago - Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers

Trivia

• Reza Shakeri - Beautify GitHub Profile

16th May 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Honeycomb's O'Reilly Book Observability Engineering
• Derek Comartin - Building a Webhooks System
• luminousmen - Modern Big Data Architectures - Lambda & Kappa
• William Boxhall - Event sourcing - basic concepts
• Martin Fowler - Responsible Tech Playbook
• Jim Humelsine - Hexagonal Architecture & Legacy Code
• William Boxhall - Event sourcing - basic concepts
• Slack Engineering - Reducing Slack's memory footprint

Distributed Systems

• B. Fan, H. Lim, D. G. Andersen, M. Kaminsky - Small Cache, Big Effect: Provable Load Balancing for Randomly Partitioned Cluster Services

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - A few tricks on how to set up related Docker images with docker-compose
• Stack Overflow - blackbox - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion
• GitHub - Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
• Docker - The Magic of Docker Desktop is Now Available on Linux
• LearnK8S - Research documents on node instance types, managed services, ingress controllers, CNIs, etc.

Databases

• Timescale - Time-series compression algorithms, explained

API

• Manning - APIs Conference 2021 Recordings
• Redoc - OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

Java

• Angie Jones - Free Courses

.NET

• .NET Blog - YARP 1.1 is here with new requested reverse proxy features
• Aaron Stannard - An Overview of Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry in .NET 6
• Andrew Lock - Generating sortable Guids using NewId
• Oleksii Nikiforov - Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6

Node.js

• Michael Herman - Node, gRPC, and Postgres

TypeScript

• Colin McDonnell - Zod - TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

Coding Life

• Gergely Orosz - How to (not) choose a startup to join: lessons from Fast

Trivia

• ArsTechnica - Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995's 3D Movie Maker because someone asked
• Microsoft - Microsoft 3D Movie Maker source codes

9th May 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Atlassian Engineering - Post-Incident Review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage
• T. Winters, T. Manshreck, H. Wright - Software Engineering at Google
• Derek Comartin - Real-World Event Driven Architecture! 4 Practical Examples
• Sophie Weston - How to optimize for speed and flow - insights from QCon London 2022
• Rich Hickey - Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
• Eric Siegel - Why Ice Cream Is Linked to Shark Attacks – Correlation/Causation Smackdown

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - Persistent vs catch-up, EventStoreDB subscriptions in action
• Citus Con: An Event for Postgres - All Recorded Talks
• T. Kersten, V. Leis, A. Kemper, T. Neumann, A. Pavlo, P. Boncz - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compiled and Vectorized Queries But Were Afraid to Ask

Frontend

• React Miami 2022 - Talks recordings
• Una Kravets - You might not need JavaScript

AWS

• Yan Cui - AWS Lambda: function URL is live!

Java

• xalgord - Multi-Threaded Programming in Java
• Evgeniy Khyst - Event Sourcing with EventStoreDB

.NET

• .NET Blog - Microsoft Graph's Journey to .NET 6
• Nicholas Blumhardt - The semantics of ILogger.BeginScope()
• Tess Ferrandez - Debugging Labs - .NET and WinDbg
• Jimmy Bogard - You Probably Don't Need to Worry About MediatR

TypeScript

• Melvin George - How to convert an array into string literal union type in TypeScript?

Coding Life

• Jeremy D. Miller - Why I hate the word “Pragmatic” and other rants

Management

• Anton Stöckl - 4 reasons why 4 is the perfect team size for (agile) software development

Product Design

• John Cutler - TBM 20/54: "You're Making This Too Complicated"

Industry

• CNET - Google Revamps Employee Review System Following Criticism
• Apple Together - Thoughts on Office-bound Work

Trivia

• Ted Neward - Speaking Tips
• Hadi Hariri - Public Speaking - Should I speak?
• Michael Liendo - The in-depth guide to selling digital products with AWS Amplify and Stripe

2nd May 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Enrico Piccinin - Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game
• Mauro Servienti - We need insights, not data
• Slack Engineering - Slack's Incident on 2-22-22
• Simon Emms - Building a RESTful API With Functions
• Dinker Charak - Quality should be everyone's focus

Distributed Systems

• WhatsApp Raft - WARaft - An Erlang implementation of RAFT from WhatsApp
• Istio - Istio has applied to become a CNCF project

DevOps

• Viktor Farcic - Terraform? Pulumi? Helm? Kustomize? Ansible? None Of Those?
• Jason Cox - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist

Frontend

• DesignCourse - Learn HTML & CSS in 2022 | Crash Course
• The Net Ninja - Make a Wordle Clone with React
• Facebook - Lexical - an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance

AI

• J.C. Petersona, S. Uddenberg,T.L. Griffiths, A. Todorov,J.W. Suchow - Deep models of superficial face judgments

Go

• Amos Wenger - Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

.NET

• Steven Giesel - From Zero to Production - Generate everything with a single button
• Muhammad Azeez - Mocking Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core Integration Tests
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Testing ASP.NET Core 6 Apps
• Andrew Lock - Keeping up with .NET: learning about new features and APIs
• Oskar Dudycz - How to build a simple event pipeline

Node.js

• Google - WireIt - Upgrades your npm scripts to make them smarter and more efficient

Ruby

• Avdi Grimm - Keep Ruby Weird 2018

Coding Life

• Felienne Hermans - The Programmer's Brain
• Michael Jin - Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix

Management

• Scott Hanselman - Building Teams Through Systems Thinking and Stories
• Mike Griffiths - Toptal Blog Proposal: Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Industry

• Daniel Stenberg - Uncurled - everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades
• CNBC - Twitter accepts Elon Musk's buyout deal
• TechCrunch - Twitter is protecting its source code from disgruntled employees, reports say

25th April 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Software Crafts Podcast - Interview with Jessica Kerr
• Lee Atchison - Use of consumption apps in the enterprise
• Michiel Uithol - Security in Domain-Driven Design
• Joshua Kerievsky - Refactoring to Patterns: Simplification
• Pavel Azaletskiy - Dynamic Value Stream Mapping to Help Increase Developer Productivity
• Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz - Hexagonal Architecture pills
• The Valuable Dev - Cohesion and Coupling in Software with Examples

Distributed Systems

• I. Levine, C. Posta, Y. Kohavi - eBPF for Service Mesh? Yes, but Envoy Proxy is here to stay

DevOps

• Michael Vittrup Larsen - The future of Kubernetes – and why developers should look beyond Kubernetes in 2022
• Vector - A lightweight, ultra-fast tool for building observability pipelines
• DigitalOcean - How To Use Journalctl to View and Manipulate Systemd Logs
• Kelsey Hightower - Automation is the serialization of understanding

Frontend

• Paul Hebert - Web Components as Progressive Enhancement

.NET

• Maksim Volkau - ImTools - Fast and memory-efficient immutable collections and helper data structures
• Tobias Ahnoff & Martin Altenstedt - Defence in depth as Code
• .NET MAUI Release Candidate – Ready for cross-platform app development
• Maarten Balliauw - Nullable reference types in C# - Migrating to nullable reference types - Part 1

Hardware

• RedPanda - Evaluating Graviton 2 for data-intensive applications: an Arm vs Intel comparison

Tools

• Nushell - A new type of shell
• Wilfred Hughes - Diffastic - a diff that understands syntax
• GitHub - You can now name your fork when creating it

Management

• Will Larson - Staff archetypes
• Tim Ottinger - Story Points: Why is this so hard?

Coding Life

• Tekna - Non-Competition Clauses

Industry

• BleepingComputer - GitHub suspends accounts of Russian devs at sanctioned companies

Security

• Oracle - Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022

Trivia

• Markham Heid - The Science Behind Gut Feelings
• PBS - False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news

18th April 2022

Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

Architecture

• Adam Ralph - Finding your service boundaries - a practical guide
• Udi Dahan - Microservices and Rules Engines – a blast from the past
• Mat McLoughlin - Model timelines not entities
• Mauro Servienti - Talk Session: Welcome to the (State) Machine
• G. S. Kuaban, R. Kumar, B.S. Soodan, P. Czekalski - Multi-Server Queuing Model With Balking and Correlated Reneging With Application in Health Care Management

DevOps

• The Register - At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks
• Gergely Orosz - The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time
• Tomasz Brzoza - Managing complex configurations in large scale environments
• Logz.io - The Complete Guide to the ELK Stack
• Mike Rogers - Testing Logstash configuration with JSON input/output

Databases

• Alex DeBrie - GraphQL, DynamoDB, and Single-table Design

Testing

• Testcontainers - New milestone, new look, new release, same Testcontainers!

Frontend

• Christian Heilmann - One million broken web sites – and a way to prevent that

.NET

• .NET Blog - Introducing Central Package Management
• JorgeCandeias - Trader - An algorithmic trading framework and host built on Microsoft Orleans
• Nicholas Blumhardt - Customizing Serilog text output
• ASP.NET Documentation - Basic tests with the default WebApplicationFactory
• .NET Blog - ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 3

Go

• Dmitry Vyukov — Go scheduler: Implementing language with lightweight concurrency
• İnanç Gümüş - Learn Go - A Huge Number of Go Examples, Exercises and Quizzes