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8th July 2024

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Architecture

• Michał Kosmulski - Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices
• David Cramer - The Problem with OpenTelemetry
• Google web.dev blog - Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC
• Sindhu Pillai, Gregor Hohpe - Refactoring to Serverless: From Application to Automation
• Yan Cui - I’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrong
• Sheen Brisals - The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications
• Matt Wynne - The Iceberg Model: towards unraveling our patriarchal legacy

Databases

• pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

Testing

• Kent Beck - TDD is Not Hill Climbing

.NET

• Oren Eini - Cloned Dictionary vs. Immutable Dictionary vs. Frozen Dictionary in high traffic systems
• NDepend Blog - Readonly, Immutable, and Frozen Collections in .NET
• Mark Seemann - An immutable priority collection
• Andrew Lock - Exploring the generated code: List and fallback cases

Node.js

• Pongo - Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
• Oskar Dudycz - Introduction to Pongo
• Matteo Collina - Do not thrash the Node js event loop

Rust

• Austin Starks - I spent 18 months rebuilding my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I’m filled with regret.

TypeScript

• Alexey Berezin - Extract object type with optional fields in TypeScript

Performance

• Denis Bakhvalov - The book "Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPU"

Tools

• Chris Wanstrath - Why we need Ladybird
• Git Immersion - A guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.

Management

• Daniel S. Katz - How groups can immediately benefit when new members join

Industry

• Goldman Sachs - Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?
• Sequoia - AI’s $600B Question
• The Verge - Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly okay to steal content if it’s on the open web

Security

• Taylor Beseda - WebAuthn: Enhancing Security with Minimal Effort

Trivia

• ArsTechnica - Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech
• Jimb Esser - Regex crossword

1st July 2024

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Architecture

• Simon Brown - Misconceptions, misuses, and mistakes
• Indu Alagarsamy - Document your product and software architecture decisions.
• Loïc Carr - Falsehoods Software Developers Believe About Event-Driven Systems
• Uber - Modernizing Uber’s Batch Data Infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform
• 📺 Michael Staib - Why you should consider using persisted queries with GraphQL
• Gregor Hohpe - Old Books that Every Architect Should Read

Databases

• Oskar Dudycz - Filtering EventStoreDB subscriptions by event types
• F. Cardeneti Mendes, P. Sarna, P. Emelyanov, C. Dunlop - Database Performance at Scale

DevOps

• DataDog - State of Cloud Costs
• RKE2 - Rancher's next-generation Kubernetes distribution

AI

• Kaan Can Fidan - How Event Sourcing Can Power Machine Learning
• Ian Cooper - Is AI a Silver Bullet?
• Firefox - Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox

AWS

• Tejas Mane - AWS Bastion Host: Secure Remote Access to Your Private Instances

.NET

• linux-dev-certs - global tool that creates and installs a developer certificate on Linux
• Microsoft - Announcement: Swashbuckle.AspNetCore is being removed in .NET 9
• David Fowler - "Eventing framework" postponed and won't be a part of .NET 9
• 📺 Oren Eini - Building a Database Engine in C# & .NET

Coding Life

• Nat Bennett - Don't be results-oriented
• Tyler Sticka - Burned by My Own Hot Take
• Rich Hickey - Open Source is Not About You

Industry

• Ecosyste.ms - provides a set of free and open resources for those working to sustain and secure open source software
• PC World - Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
• ArsTechnica - Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

Security

• Sansec - Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
• Bleeping Computer - Polyfill.io, BootCDN, Bootcss, Staticfile attack traced to 1 operator
• The Cloudflare Blog - Automatically replacing polyfill.io links with Cloudflare’s mirror for a safer Internet
• The Register - Polyfill.io owner punches back at 'malicious defamation' amid domain shutdown
• Guardian - NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood test

Trivia

• 📺 Adam Savage - Avoid These Words (And Not Just at Work)
• Berta And Butterflies - "Game & Watch" like game for the Atari 2600

24th June 2024

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Architecture

• Pierre Pureur, Kurt Bittner - Architectural Trade-Offs: the Art of Minimizing Unhappiness
• Gregor Hohpe - The Many Facets of Coupling
• 📺 Jim Weirich - Connascence Examined
• 📺 James Eastham - So You Want to Build An Event Driven System?

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - How to automatically setup pgAdmin with a Docker database
• Jesse Chen - Improving CI/CD with a Focus on Developer Velocity
• Johan Olsson - OpenTelemetry Part 3 - Observability
• Clickhouse - Building an Observability Solution with ClickHouse - Part 2 - Traces
• qryn - a fast, thin, all-in-one polyglot observability stack built on top of ClickHouse
• Nikolay Sivko - You're overpaying for OpenTelemetry's verbosity by at least 30%

Databases

• Manticore Search - Easy to use open source fast database for search

Frontend

• Dominik Dorfmeister - React 19 and Suspense - A Drama in 3 Acts
• Nadia Makarevich - I tried React Compiler today, and guess what... 😉
• Carson Gross - htmx sucks

AI

• Felix GV - Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI Data Platform

Azure

• Tore Nestenius - DefaultAzureCredentials Under the Hood

Go

• Miłosz Smółka - Live website updates with Go, SSE, and htmx

Java

• Venkat Subramniam, Josh Long - What's Looming in Spring?

.NET

• YoshiMaker - Serializers in IoT: Json.NET and System.Text.Json are Both Terrible!
• 📺 Dennis Dietrich - Introduction to unsafe C#: Calling native code and crashing in entirely new ways
• João Antunes - Transactional outbox pattern meets distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry
• Freakout - Just a general outbox thing

WebAssembly

• 📺 Katie Bell - Don't Trust Anything! Real-world Uses For WebAssembly

Security

• Wired - Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake
• EPAM - Response to Hacker Misinformation Regarding Data Breach
• Mandiant - UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft and Extortion

Trivia

• Dan Luu - How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written

17th June 2024

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Architecture

• Sam Rose - Queueing. An interactive study of queueing strategies
• 📺 William Brander - Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever
• 📺 Developer Voices - Reimplementing Apache Kafka with Golang and S3
• Amarachi Iheanacho - Data journey through the Internet - The OSI model approach

Databases

• Awesome DuckDB - A curated list of awesome DuckDB resources
• Percona - PostgreSQL 17: Two Small Improvements That Will Have a Major Impact
• TimescaleDB - Fireside chat with AmazingCTO: Why use PostgreSQL for Everything?!

JavaScript

• Isaac Junior - A Guide to the Temporal API in JavaScript

AI

• ArsTechnica - Apple unveils “Apple Intelligence” AI features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
• Slack - Balancing Old Tricks with New Feats: AI-Powered Conversion From Enzyme to React Testing Library at Slack

Azure

• Scott Hanselman - Securing an Azure App Service Website under SSL in minutes with Let's Encrypt

Elixir

• Yevhenii Kurtov - An end-to-end ES/CQRS example with EventStoreDB and Phoenix/LiveView

Java

• Jonathan Ellis - Indexing all of Wikipedia, on a laptop
• Olimpiu Pop - Chicory - a WebAssembly Interpreter Written Purely in Java with Zero Native Dependencies

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Setting up NGINX load balancer for .NET WebApi
• David Fowler - Replacing WebApplicationFactory dependencies in Aspire integration tests
• Brian Gorman - Azure Queueing Messaging and Events
• Yoh Deadfall - Weakly and strongly typed values in .NET
• Andrew Lock - Introducing collection expressions in C#12. Behind the scenes of collection expressions - Part 1

Rust

• JetBrains - RustRover Is Released and Includes a Free Non-Commercial Option

Management

• Charity Majors - Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You

Industry

• Oracle - OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
• Android Authority - Adobe wants to use your work to train its AI, and everyone is mad at it

Security

• ProPublica - Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says
• noyb - Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school

Trivia

• Hackaday - Homebrew Reader Brings Paper Tape Programs Back To Life
• Holly Cummins - How to draw when you can’t draw, part i: a growth mindset story

10th June 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Combining the To-Do List and the Passage Of Time patterns for resilient business workflows
• Marc-Andre Giroux - Why, after 8 years, I still like GraphQL sometimes in the right context
• Matt Bessey - Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL
• 📺 How About Tomorrow? Podcast - What Does “Full Stack” Mean? w/ Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence
• 📺 Mufrid Krilic - Multiple Models with Multiple Perspectives in a Cross-Functional Team
• Ralf Westphal - Integration Operation Segregation Principle (IOSP)
• DocuEye - A tool that lets You visualize views and documentation created using Structurizr DSL
• Matt Wynne - Introducing Example Mapping
• Gojko Adzic - Example Mapping

Database

• Stripe - How Stripe’s document databases supported 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime data migrations
• Lukas Fittl - Understanding Postgres GIN Indexes: The Good and the Bad

Testing

• smtp4dev - the fake smtp email server for development and testing

Azure

• Johnny Hooyberghs - Goodbye Azure Kubernetes Service! Hello Azure Container Apps!

Node.js

• Streams - Living Standard
• 📺 Matteo Collina - A Deep Dive into Node.js Streams
• web-streams-polyfill - Web Streams, based on the WHATWG spec reference implementation
• Turbo - Turborepo 2.0 released
• Jack Herrington - NextJS 15: React 19, Less Caching, Turbopack, Better Hydration Errors and MORE from Vercel Ship!

.NET

• Ian Cooper - Practical Messaging
• Dustin Campbell, Mads Torgersen - What’s new in C# 13
• Tim Deschryver - Consuming .NET Feature Flags within an Angular Application
• Blazor.TSRuntime - An improved JSRuntime with automatic JS-module loading and caching, compile time errors instead of runtime errors and nice IntelliSense guidance

Coding Life

• ArsTechnica - Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

Management

• Christiaan Verwijs - Why Science Is Essential To Professionalize Our Community
• Christiaan Verwijs & Daniel Russo - Do Agile scaling approaches make a difference? an empirical comparison of team effectiveness across popular scaling approaches

Security

• Mat Duggan - IAM Is The Worst
• Sam Curry - Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
• ArsTechnica - Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems

Trivia

• Gregor Hohpe - The Economics of Writing Technical Books
• Alex Lawrence - The financial cost of writing a book

3rd June 2024

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Architecture

• Google Cloud Blog - 5 myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn’t
• Andy Jiang, Luca Casonato, Jo Franchetti - How to document your JavaScript package
• Afrefs - How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure With a 90% Discount
• Tommi Hovi - Demystifying cookies and tokens
• Decentralized Identity Foundation - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as an Identifier Metasystem

DevOps

• GitHub - Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta

Frontend

• Dan Abramov - React for Two Computers

Database

• Markus Winand - Use the Index, Luke! A Guide to Database Performance for Developers
• CedarDB - An ode to PostgreSQL, and why it is still time to start over

Testing

• Matteo Vaccari - Test-Driving HTML Templates

AWS

• AWS Database Blog - Continuously replicate Amazon DynamoDB changes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Lambda

Java

• Nicolai Parlog - Model Data, the Whole Data, and Nothing but the Data - Data Oriented Programming v1.1
• Vlad Mihlacea - PostgreSQL COPY result set to file

.NET

• Damien Bod - Implement a Microsoft Entra ID external authentication method using ASP.NET Core and OpenIddict
• Michael Staib - Getting Started with OpenTelemetry and GraphQL in .NET
• Andrew Lock - Thoughts about primary constructors: 3 pros and 5 cons
• dnvm - A command-line interface for installing and updating different dotnet SDKs

Coding Life

• Mark Seemann - Fundamentals

Industry

• Robin Dev - Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
• VentureBeat - Dell earnings reveal sluggish enterprise AI adoption
• TechRadar - EU ChatGPT Taskforce: a road to GDPR enforcement on AI?
• Above the Law - Airline Said It's Not Responsible For Terrible Advice From Its Own Customer Service AI Bot. The Court... Disagreed.

Security

• Kevin Beaumont - Snowflake at centre of world’s largest data breach
• ArsTechnica - Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
• Kevin Beaumont - Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.
• Zeev Kalyuzhner - Exploiting LLMs: Unpacking Excessive Agency in a 6-Step Guide

Trivia

• Computing: the Details - Call the compiler, fax it your code

27th May 2024

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Architecture

• Uber - Migrating a Trillion Entries of Uber’s Ledger Data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
• The Register - Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time
• Pinterest Engineering - How a one line change decreased our clone times by 99%
• the engineering club - Inverse-Conway-Maneuver with Nick Tune
• Jonny LeRoy - Dealing with creaky legacy platforms
• Bruno Costa - You probably don’t need microservices
• Adam Bellemare - Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams — Part 2
• 📺 Developer Voices - Mojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)
• Maaret Pyhäjärvi - Making Releases Routine
• Antithesis - The worst bug we faced at Antithesis
• J. Liu, S. Poulsen, E. Goodwin, H. Chen, G. Williams, Y. Gertner, D. Franklin - Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review
• David Boike - What does idempotent mean in software systems?

DevOps

• Joseph Lynch - How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems

Databases

• Mike Stonebraker - Introducing DBOS Cloud: Transactional Serverless Computing on a Cloud-Native OS
• Alexander Belanger - An unfair advantage: multi-tenant queues in Postgres
• Jonathan Katz - Scalar and binary quantization for pgvector vector search and storage

Frontend

• Minko Gechev - Angular v18 is now available!
• Jack Herrington - React Compiler With React 18
• React - React Compiler

Java

• Aleksey Stukalov, Catherine Edelveis - Java Runtimes: Insights From the Spring Boot Point of View

Kotlin

• Artur Skowronski - Kotlin 2.0 & opinionated Wrap-up of KotlinConf 2024 – JVM Weekly vol. 84
• JetBrains - Celebrating Kotlin 2.0: Fast, Smart, and Multiplatform
• Kotlin - What's new in Kotlin 2.0.0

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Why you should batch message processing and how to do it with .NET AsyncEnumerable
• Microsoft - General Availability of .NET Aspire: Simplifying .NET Cloud-Native Development
• Microsoft - .NET Announcements and Updates from Microsoft Build 2024
• Andrew Lock - Thoughts about primary constructors: 3 pros and 5 cons
• Chris Simon - TDD, DDD, and C# from the Ground Up

Tools

• Gorilla CLI - LLMs for your CLI . Powers your command-line interactions with a user-centric tool

Management

• Aleix Morgadas - Awesome Engineering Strategy

20th May 2024

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Architecture

• 📺 Oskar Dudycz - Let's build the worst Event Sourcing system!
• ArsTechnica - “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
• chubernetes - Evolution of Monolithic Systems
• 📺 Tech Leaders Launchpad - How to Stay Adaptable as a Startup CTO with Chris Simon
• Udi Dahan - Race Conditions Don’t Exist
• Learn Software Architecture - The Functional Turn: Rethinking Programming Paradigms - LIVE interview with Urs Enzler
• Uptime - Building sustainable software architectures using residuality theory
• James Shore - Free Self-Guided “Testing Without Mocks” Training

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - Docker Compose Profiles, one the most useful and underrated features
• The Stack - Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
• Maciej Pocwierz - How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
• AWS - Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
• Marc Campbell - Understanding how uid and gid work in Docker containers
• GitHub - dependabot-core is now open source with an MIT license

Databases

• Alejandro García Montoro - Making a Postgres query 1,000 times faster

Testing

• Emily Bache - I REGRET Not Telling Dave Farley THIS about Approval Testing
• Hillel Wayne - "Integration tests" are just vibes

AI

• Reuters - OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
• Slack - How Slack protects your data when using machine learning and AI
• The NewYork Times - What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?

AWS

• Saurabh Sharma, Jordan Rosenbloom - Event Driven Architecture using Amazon EventBridge – Part 1

Java

• OpenJDK - JEP 467: Markdown Documentation Comments

JVM

• Tobi Ajila - Optimizing JVM for the Cloud: Strategies for Success

.NET

• Microsoft - .NET 7 will reach End of Support on May 14, 2024
• Dan Clarke - Snapshot Testing with Verify
• 📺 Aaron Stannard - Make Illegal States Unrepresentable - N+1 and Arithmetic Errors
• Martin Thwaites - Trace Propagation and Public API Endpoints in .NET – Part 1 (Disable All)

Coding Life

• 📺 Natan Silnitsky - Supercharge Your Developer Journey with Tiny Atomic Habits

Industry

• J. Terrell, A. Kofink, J. Middleton, C. Rainear - Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Security

• Infiscal - Open Source Secret Management
• The Verge - Single-tap passkeys are coming to Android 15

Trivia

• Paul Graham - Keep Your Identity Small

13th May 2024

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Architecture

• 📺 Joshua Bloch - How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
• Eugene Yan - Simplicity is An Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better
• 📺 Eberhard Wolff & Alberto Brandolini: The Chasm Between Architecture and Business
• Mohit Palriwal - Unraveling the Enigma: Debunking Myths Surrounding Lambda Cold Starts
• Adam Bellemare - Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams — Part 1
• Matt Butcher - Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach
• Maciej "MJ" Jędrzejewski - When Can't Trunk: Meet Short-Living Branches

DevOps

• Timescale - A Deep Dive Into OpenTelemetry Metrics
• Docker - Wasm vs. Docker: Performant, Secure, and Versatile Containers
• Bert Wullems - Kubernetes–Setup a local cluster through Podman Desktop

Databases

• AWS - Data modeling with Amazon DocumentDB

Distributed Systems

• Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ) - A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres

AI

• Jay Alammar - The Illustrated Word2vec

UX

• 📺 Dean Schuster - The Crisps and Pickle Story: What's Really Behind Infamous, Historic UI Failures?
• How-To Geek - A Visual History of Windows Icons: From Windows 1 to 11

Java

• Oskar Dudycz - How to write a left-fold streams collector in Java

Kotlin

• Zac Sweers - Preparing for K2

.NET

• 📺 Aaron Stannard - Easy, Database Agnostic NET Event Sourcing and CQRS with Akka.NET
• João Antunes - Where are my traces? (weird .NET meets OpenTelemetry gotcha)
• 📺 Stephen Toub, Scott Hanselman - Deep Dive into RegEx
• Richard Lander - Secure your container build and publish with .NET 8

Tools

• VSCode - Using WebAssembly for Extension Development

Coding Life

• Adam Tornhill - Programming like it's 1977: exploring the Atari VCS

Management

• Dale H. Emery - Resistance as a Resource

Industry

• OpenAI - API Partnership with Stack Overflow
• The Register - Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

Security

• Daniel Bass - 45 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Modeling Authorization

6th May 2024

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Architecture

• Corey Quinn - Multi-Cloud is the Worst Practice
• Vercel - Why all application migrations should be incremental
• Anton Zaides - How refactoring almost ruined my marriage. And why it should be your LAST choice
• 📺 Jacqui Read - Knowledge Management for the Technically Inclined
• John D. Sterman - All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist

DevOps

• TraceLens - the OpenTelemetry UI
• Alistair Grew - The beginning of the end for Terraform?

Testing

• Steve Berczuk - Really Dumb Tests

UX

• Brad Frost - The art of design system recipes

Frontend

• React - React 19 Beta is available
• 📺 Theo - React 19 Is FINALLY Here

AI

• 📺 Michelle Frost - The Elephant in your Dataset: Addressing Bias in Machine Learning
• Martin Fowler - An example of LLM prompting for programming

AWS

• AWS - Improving Developer Productivity at Disney with Serverless and Open Source
• Luca Mezzalira - AWS Lambda under the hood

Azure

• Mateusz Jendza - Entra External ID for Customers - first impression

Google Cloud

• Google - Introducing Shadow API detection for your Google Cloud environments

Java

• Oskar Dudycz - This is not your uncle's Java! Modelling with Java 22 records pattern matching in practice
• 📺 Brian Goetz - Java Language Update -- a look at where the language is going

.NET

• TurboMqtt - The fastest Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) client for .NET.
• Daniel Marbach - Beyond simple benchmarks—A practical guide to optimizing code with BenchmarkDotNet
• dotnet-xunit-otel - An xUnit test framework that wraps tests in a trace to provide better visualisation of the test flows
• EFCoreSecondLevelCacheInterceptor - EF Core Second Level Cache Interceptor

Node.js

• primate - Introducing rcompat, a JavaScript interoperability and runtime compatibility layer for servers

Management

• James Shore - A Software Engineering Career Ladder
• Hazel Weakly - Observations of Leadership (Part One)
• John Cutler - Software Development As Collective Learning With Hazel Weakly

Industry

• Harvard Business Review - If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired
• Microsoft - Microsoft announces US$1.7 billion investment to advance Indonesia’s cloud and AI ambitions
• TechCrunch - Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference

29th April 2024

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Architecture

• Shopify - Improving Shopify App’s Performance
• Maxime Chevalier - The Alternative Implementation Problem
• David Hope - Async APIs - don't confuse your events, commands and state

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - How to configure a custom Test Container on the EventStoreDB example
• The NewStack - Top 10 Tools for Kafka Engineers

Databases

• Supabase - Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol
• Marc Brooker - MemoryDB: Speed, Durability, and Composition.

Testing

• MailCrab - Email test server for development, written in Rust

Frontend

• 📺 Theo - From 0 to Production - The Modern React Tutorial (RSCs, Next.js, Shadui, Drizzle, TS and more)
• Evert Pot - ECMAScript 4: The missing version

Azure

• Microsoft - Trusted Signing is in Public Preview

Java

• Petri Kainulainen - Writing Integration Tests for Spring Boot Web Applications: Spring Profiles
• Oracle - JDK 17 approaches end-of-permissive license

.NET

• 📺 Ian Cooper - Kafka for .NET Developers
• Jimmy Bogard - Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Authentication
• Aaron Stannard - Akka.NET, ASP.NET Core, Hosted Services, and Dependency Injection
• Patrick Smacchia - Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?

Node.js

• Zachary Lee - Native Support for CJS/ESM Interoperability Begins in Node.js 22
• Node.js - Node.js 22 is now available!

TypeScript

• 📺 John A. De Goes - Why Effect is more important than ZIO

Product Design

• Daniel D. McKinnon - Product Management at Meta vs. Google or My Take on How to Evaluate your {Google,Meta} Offer
• 📺 Daniel Terhorst-North - How to Bake a Change

Coding Life

• Jared Turner - WIP is waste

Industry

• HashCorp - HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation
• Microsoft - Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0

Security

• William Brown - Passkeys: A Shattered Dream

Trivia

• ArsTechnica - After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip

22nd April 2024

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Architecture

• Indu Alagarsamy - Application and Architecture Modernization - Where do we Start?
• Fred Hebert - Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
• Marc Brooker - Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice?
• Paul Reardon - Messaging Basics
• 📺 Michiel Overeem - How We Write Better Software with Low-Code
• 📺 Tomasz Lelek and Mark Rendle - Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs
• Omid Eidivandi - Automating EventCatalog at Scale
• Swift - API Design Guidelines
• 📺 Valentina Jemuović - Hexagonal Architecture in Monoliths and Microservices

DevOps

• Adidas Engineering - How we are managing a container platform: a tale about the past
• Giannis Papadakis - Evaluate Performance at Massive Scale workshop
• Tim Deschryver - Load testing
• Karpenter - Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity
• Microsoft - Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices

Databases

• Dylan Paulus - Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had
• Neo4j - ISO GQL: A Defining Moment in the History of Database Innovation
• Snowflake - A Breakthrough AI-Powered SQL Assistant

AI

• Meta - Introducing Meta Llama 3

Azure

• Piotr Stapp - Exploring Azure Container Apps (ACA) and the Missing YAML Functionality

AWS

• AWS Compute Blog - Comparing design approaches for building serverless microservices

Java

• OpenJDK - JEP 473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)

.NET

• 📺 Scott Hanselman - Stephen Toub - Deep Dive on LINQ
• Chisel - Remove unwanted dependencies from your dotnet projects
• Jeff Hansen - FxKit - Functional programming utilities and Roslyn components for writing expressive C#
• Oleksii Nikiforov - Building pipelines with System.Threading.Channels

Node.js

• Oskar Dudycz - Mocking the native Node.js Test Runner

Industry

• The Verge - Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
• The Verge - Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest

Security

• Orca Security - LeakyCLI: AWS and Google Cloud Command-Line Tools Can Expose Sensitive Credentials in Build Logs
• PuTTY - Vulnerability vuln-p521-bias - private keys are exposed by biased signature generation

Trivia

• Maria Farrell - We Need To Rewild The Internet

15th April 2024

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Architecture

• Learn Software Architecture - Event Sourcing for Newbies - LIVE interview with Oskar Dudycz
• Discord - How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments
• Netflix - A Tale of Two Frameworks: The Domain Graph Service Framework Meets Spring GraphQL
• Edsger W.Dijkstra - On the role of scientific thought
• Barry O'Sullivan - Event Granularity: Modelling events in event driven applications
• IEEE Spectrum - Q&A: Adele Goldberg on the Legacy of Smalltalk. One of the language’s original developers talks about its influence on modern-day programming

DevOps

• InfoWorld - OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
• Podman - Podman Desktop 1.9 Release
• derekhe - Keygen.sh docker compose example

Databases

• Jonathan Katz - Will PostgreSQL ever change its license?

Frontend

• Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library

Java

• Saeed Zarinfam - How to Detect Cache Misses Using Observability
• Josh Long - Spring Tips: Hello, Java 22!

JavaScript

• Ecma Script Comitee - JavaScript Signals standard proposal

.NET

• PostgreSQL - Announcing pl/dotnet, version 0.99 (beta)
• Howard van Rooijen - ASP.NET Core + Razor + HTMX + Chart.js
• Martin Thwaites - Practical OpenTelemetry in .NET 8
• João Antunes - Primitive vs strongly typed dictionary keys (feat. frozen collections and BenchmarkDotNet)

TypeScript

• Oskar Dudycz - How to build an in-memory Message Bus in TypeScript
• Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library

Tools

• rebase-editor - Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase
• Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows

Coding Life

• Gareth Edwards - She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home. The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern

Industry

• ITPro - AWS fined $525 million after US court rules Amazon S3 storage, DynamoDB services infringed patents
• Kove - Original compliant against Amazon
• Emna Ayadi - Diversity in Tech Conferences

Security

• 9to5Google - Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming
• CVE-2024-24576 (CVSS 10): Rust Flaw Exposes Windows Systems to Command Injection Attacks
• The Register - Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware'
• Arctic Wolf - Behind the Ballot: Insights from Arctic Wolf’s 2024 Election Security Survey
• Assured - Securing a Record-Breaking Election Year: Easier Said than Cyber Done

8th April 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Event modelling anti-patterns explained
• Oliver Wehrens - Why you need a macro architecture
• Mario Bittencourt - Exploring Advanced Error Handling Patterns with Event-Driven Architecture — Part I
• Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave - Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation

DevOps

• Elastic - Elastic now providing distributions for OpenTelemetry SDKs
• OpenTelemetry - Span Links documentation
• The NewStack - Can OpenTofu Become the HTTP of Infrastructure as Code?

Databases

• Sylvain Kerkour - Optimizing SQLite for servers
• ExtendClass - PostgreSQL online playgroun

AWS

• Yan Cui - DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies. But is that a good idea?

Azure

• Microsoft - Announcing Distributed Functions (Preview) for Azure Static Web Apps

Java

• OpenJDK - JEP draft: Module Import Declarations (Preview)

.NET

• Chris Patterson - Using Open Telemetry with the MassTransit Test Harness?
• Steve Gordon, Martijn Laarman - Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
• Microsoft - Testing Your Native AOT Applications
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Responsive Images Crash Course for ASP.NET Core Developers

WebAssembly

• Ryan Levick - Deconstructing WebAssembly Components

Coding Life

• Brent Ozar - How the Company-Startup Thing Worked Out For Me, Year 12
• Brendan Gregg - Brilliant Jerks in Engineering

Management

• Brian Elliott - Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

Security

• Evan Boehs - Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
• Lasse Collin - XZ Utils backdoor
• Gynvael Coldwind - xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
• Thomas Roccia - XZ Outbreak InphoGraphic
• Andres Freund - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
• Rob Mensching - A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects

1st April 2024

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Architecture

• Surabhi Diwan - Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix
• Hazel Weakly - Redefining Observability
• Diana Montalion - Systems Thinking for Software Professionals
• Woody Zuill, Kevin Meadows - But, We Need Proof Before We Try It
• Kurt Bittner, Pierre Pureur - Agile Architecture, Lean Architecture, or Both?
• Claudio Gargiulo - Consuming a Kafka Topic Is Easy, Isn’t It?
• Udi Dahan - Udi & Greg Reach CQRS Agreement
• Confluent - Introducing Tableflow

Databases

• CNCF - Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community
• Harshit Agarwal - Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem
• Hannes Mühleisen - 42.parquet – A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age

Testing

• J. B. Rainsberger - TDD: You're Probably Doing It Just Fine
• Microsoft - APIs load testing using K6

AI

• Michael Feathers 0 Recency Bias or Cognitive Load? Surfacing Capability in Large Language Models

Java

• Baeldung - Spring WebClient vs. RestTemplate
• Spring - Hypermedia and Browser Enhancement

JavaScript

• date-fns - Modern JavaScript date utility library

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - I'm no longer Marten maintainer
• Andrew W. Lock - Implementing Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the shortest path between two nodes using PriorityQueue in .NET 9
• Stephen Toub, Scott Hanselman - Writing async/await from scratch in C#
• Anthony Simmon - .NET Aspire dashboard is the best tool to visualize your OpenTelemetry data during local development
• AWS - Introducing the AWS Message Processing Framework for .NET (Preview)

Tools

• Jesse Duffield - Make advanced Git tasks simple with Lazygit

Management

• Abi Noda, Tim Cochran - Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans

Industry

• The Register - Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

Security

• Orein Eini - Certificates from the ground up
• WebAuthn Local Client - Browser-only utils for locally managing WebAuthn (passkey) API

25th March 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Testing Event Sourcing, Emmett edition
• Swizec Teller - The 3 budgets
• Josh Collinsworth - The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
• Dan North - How simple is too simple?
• Decathlon - BFF: A design pattern helping teams gain ownership
• Expedia - Search Speed: Making Expedia Flights Faster
• Andrew Schofield - Queues for Kafka
• Linda Rising - Understanding the Power of Abstraction in Patterns
• 📺 Gregor Hohpe - Build Abstractions Not Illusions

DevOps

• OpenTelemetry - CNCF OpenTelemetry Graduation proposal
• McDonald's Technical Blog - Reduce, reuse, recycle: McDonald’s reusable workflows
• Retina - eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes

Databases

• Redis - Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
• Microsoft - Introducing Garnet – an open-source, next-generation, faster cache-store for accelerating applications and services
• Raddevus - How Much Can Sqlite Handle? Multiple Threads Concurrently Inserting Into Sqlite

AI

• Adrian Cockcroft - Nvidia GTC: Hyperscaler Happiness and Enterprise Indigestion

Testing

• Bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

Frontend

• TanStack - High-quality open-source software for web developers

Java

• Inside Java - The Arrival of Java 22!
• Piotr Przybył - The best Java 22 feature: concurrent gathering

.NET

• 📺 The Breakpoing Show - Episode 016 – The 1 Billion Row Challenge With Mark Rendle
• Steven Giesel - NCronJob - Scheduling made easy
• Gérald Barré - Generate OpenAPI specification at build time from the code in ASP.NET Core
• Babu Annamalai - Marten native partial updates - patching

Node.js

• Drizzle - Headless TypeScript ORM with a head. Runs on Node, Bun and Deno. Lives on the Edge and yes, it's a JavaScript ORM too

TypeScript

• Matt Pocock - Type vs Interface: Which Should You Use?

Management

• Padmal Vitharana, Shahir A. Daya - Challenges in Adopting and Sustaining Microservice-based Software Development. Organizational challenges can be more difficult than technical ones.

Security

• ArsTechnica - Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Trivia

• Werner Vogels - District heating: Using data centers to heat communities
• LifeHacker - How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again

18th March 2024

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Architecture

• Tim Berners-Lee - Information Management: A Proposal (WWW Proposal)
• Figma - How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale
• Neal Ford — Granularity and Communication in Microservice Architectures
• Rafał Maciak - Big Picture Event Storming - finding the gaps
• Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Bruno Boucard - Model-Driven Design
• DDD Crew - Domain Message Flow Modelling
• The Guardian - Tesco hit by grocery delivery glitch as Sainbury’s works to fix technical issue
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Boeing

Databases

• PGlite - Lightweight Postgres packaged as WASM into a TypeScript library for the browser, Node.js, Bun and Deno
• Astro DB - A fully managed SQL database designed exclusively for Astro

DevOps

• CNCF - Cloud Native FinOps + Cloud Financial Management Microsurvey
• Double Trouble - How to dive deep into Gitlab Metrics with SQLite and Grafana

AI

• Amy Castor - Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Azure

• Alexandre Nedelec - Call your Azure AD B2C protected API with authenticated HTTP requests from your JetBrains IDE
• Microsoft - Announcing the release of workload profile and managed scaling of Timer Trigger for Azure Functions

Node.js

• Mario Bittencourt - Event Sourcing with Emmett: Reducing the Entry Barrier
• Brandon Roberts - Announcing AnalogJS 1.0 🚀
• Confluent - Confluent's Javascript Client for Apache Kafka

Java

• All Java conference talks from 2023 ordered by the number of views

.NET

• Arseniy Sharoglazov - Source Code Disclosure in ASP.NET apps
• SimdLinq - Drop-in replacement of LINQ aggregation operations extremely faster with SIMD.
• Steve Dunn - Prefer test-doubles over mocking frameworks
• Steve Gordon - Understanding System.Diagnostics DiagnosticSource and DiagnosticListener (Part 1)

Rust

• Cloudflare - Open sourcing Pingora: our Rust framework for building programmable network services
• Tower - Tower is a library of modular and reusable components for building robust networking clients and servers
• Ratatui - Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs)

Tools

• Miro - Diagramming draw.io

Coding Life

• Farnam Street - Turning Pro: The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals
• deprocrastination - Stop postponing things by embracing the mess

Management

• Will Larson - Friction isn't velocity
• Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey - An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

11th March 2024

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Architecture

• Natalia Venditto - Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure
• Google - Secure by Design at Google
• White House - Back To the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure And Measurable Software
• Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, James Lewis - Event Interception. Intercept any updates to system state and route some of them to a new component
• Patrick Roos - Ultimate Guide to Non-Functional Requirements for Software Architects: Meeting Stakeholder Expectations
• Buildkite - Goodbye integers. Hello UUIDv7!

DevOps

• Allegro Tech Blog - Unlocking Kafka's Potential: Tackling Tail Latency with eBPF
• The Register - Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters
• cast.ai - 2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark Report
• dockur - Windows in a Docker container

Databases

• Event Store - EventStoreDB 24.2 released
• Google - Introducing vector search in BigQuery

AI

• Jai Vipra & Sarah Myers West - Computional Power and AI

Elixir

• Gleam - Gleam version 1. It's finally here!

Java

• Michael Redlich - JDK 22 and JDK 23: What We Know So Far

.NET

• Andrew Lock - An introduction to the heap data structure and .NET's priority queue
• Antão Almada - Measuring .NET Performance: Unleashing the Power of BenchmarkDotNet
• Scott Hanselman - Updating to .NET 8, updating to IHostBuilder, and running Playwright Tests within NUnit headless or headed on any OS
• NCrunch - NCrunch V5 Now Available

Node.js

• Oskar Dudycz - How to tackle compatibility issues in ECMA Script modules (and in general)
• Sarah Gooding - OpenJS Launches New Collaboration to Improve Interoperability of JavaScript Package Metadata

TypeScript

• Microsoft - Announcing TypeScript 5.4
• tsup - The simplest and fastest way to bundle your TypeScript libraries.

Coding Life

• Mathias Verraes - How to Fix a Bug: Tests, Hypotheses, Timeboxes
• Hillel Wayne - How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

Management

• Elizabeth Ayer - Too many cooks or not enough kitchens?
• Booking.com - DORA Metrics At Work. How we doubled our team’s delivery performance within a year as measured by DORA metrics.
• Brian Kelly - How to keep engineers out of meeting hell

Industry

• SkyNews - Google agrees $118m payout to female staff who were paid less than male colleagues
• The Record - After decades of memory-related software bugs, White House calls on industry to act
• 404 Media - Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
• ArsTechnica - Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt

4th March 2024

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Architecture

• Uber - Cinnamon: Using Century Old Tech to Build a Mean Load Shedder
• Doordash Engineering - Staying in the Zone: How DoorDash used a service mesh to manage data transfer, reducing hops and cloud spend
• Pinterest - Running Unified PubSub Client in Production at Pinterest
• Jacqui Read - Decision Archeology: Using ADRs with Existing Products
• Mario Carrion - Using the C4 model to document Software Architectures
• Ryan Shriver - DDD: Design Bounded Contexts Miro Template
• David Boyne - Beyond producers and consumers: Avoiding common issues with event-driven architectures
• Nathaniel Schutta - Analyzing and Critiquing Architectures
• Michał Grabowski - Do not copy successful architectures

Databases

• Stripe - Ledger: Stripe’s system for tracking and validating money movement

Testing

• Meta - Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models as Meta

Frontend

• Nikita Prokopov - JavaScript Bloat in 2024
• Adam Fortuna - How we Increased Search Traffic by 20x in 4 Months with the Next.js App Router
• Rainer Hahnekamp - Local Change Detection in Angular

AI

• The Verge - Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors

Java

• Paul Bakker - How Netflix Really Uses Java

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Marten 7.0 is Released!
• Martin Ullrich - Optimize for the Cloud – Lightning-speed .NET Container Apps
• Cezary Piątek - Mocking authorization tokens with WireMock.NET
• Aaron Stannard - .NET Performance Optimization: Deferred Allocations

WebAssembly

• Bytecode Alliance - Announcing Jco 1.0

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Keeping our overachieving freak on a leash
• Damian Płaza - Inverse Bruce Lee maneuver
• Vadim Kravcenko - Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior

Management

• Martin Fowler - Periodic Face-to-Face

Industry

• Chris Heilmann - Apple vs. PWAs – Go act now and help avoid this disaster
• Open Web Advocacy - Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible
• Open Collective Official Statement - OCF Dissolution

Security

• TechCrunch - A leaky database spilled 2FA codes for the world’s tech giants

26th February 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Should you always keep streams short in Event Sourcing?
• Jack Lindamood - (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup
• DoorDash - Meeting DoorDash Growth with a Self-Service Logistics Configuration Platform
• Zitadel - Why We Moved From CockroachDB to PostgreSQL
• Randy Shoup - Minimum Viable Architecture
• Zhamak Dehghani - How to break a Monolith into Microservices
• Danica Fine - Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka
• Barry M O'Reilly - Residuality and Representation: Toward a Coherent Philosophy of Software Architecture.

DevOps

• git-secrets - Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
• checkov - Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew
• Gitpod - Develop directly on a Kubernetes cluster using a CDE (Gitpod) and Telepresence

Databases

• Vlad Mihalcea - PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Settings

AI

• Open AI - Sora, Creating video from text
• Modular - Mojo vs. Rust: is Mojo 🔥 faster than Rust 🦀 ?

Azure

• Xavier Mignot - Terraform vs Bicep: the differences you should really know

Node.js

• Emmett - WebApi support
• LLRT - (Low Latency Runtime) is an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Dynamic Tenant Databases in Marten
• Tomasz Pęczek - Azure Functions Extensibility - Runtime Scaling
• Avalonia - Farewell to the .NET Foundation
• Andrew Lock - Using named pipes with ASP.NET Core and HttpClient

TypeScript

• Alexey Berezin - With or without enums in TypeScript
• TypeScript Worksheet - Get the results of your TS or JS code right in your vscode
• Twoslash - Markup for generating rich type information in your documentations ahead of time

Tools

• Draw.io - Interactive diagrams with custom links and actions

Product Design

• Elizabeth Ayer - Enshittification as Overproduction in Software, Part 1: Seeing Overproduction
• Elizabeth Ayer - Enshittification as Overproduction in Software, Part 2: Overproduction in the product lifecycle

Management

• Chris Matts, Olav Maassen - "Real Options" Underlie Agile Practices
• drmorr - OKRs are Bullshit

Security

• Microsoft Threat Intelligence - Staying ahead of threat actors in the age of AI

19th February 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Implementing Closing the Books pattern
• Eric Evans, Dave Farley - How AI Will Change Software Development In The Next 10 Years
• vjeux - End-to-End Encryption in the Browser
• Ivar Jacobson, Alistair Cockburn - Use-Case Foundation
• Michael Nygard - Consequences are not Pros or Cons
• The Serverless Edge - SCORP – the well-architected tool for Architecture Reviews
• Gregor Hohpe - Debugging Architects

DevOps

• Bit - A build system for development of composable software

Databases

• Developer Voices Podcast - Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen)

AI

• The Verge - Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

AWS

• Yan Cui - How would you reprocess Lambda dead-letter queue messages on demand?
• Steef-Jan Wiggers - AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption

Azure

• Mattias Karlsson - Introducing ARI. A DevOps tool to document a Azure tenant resources
• Microsoft - Announcing general availability of Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams meeting recordings
• Microsoft - End of SSH-RSA support for Azure Repos

Java

• Nicolai Parlog - Data Oriented Programming in Java 21
• Paul Sandoz - Emulating C# LINQ in Java using Code Reflection

.NET

• Microsoft - Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8
• Nick Chapsas - Build Clean Messaging in .NET with Wolverine
• Jeremy D. Miller - Answering Some Concerns about Wolverine
• Andrew Lock - 8 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app
• CSharpier - An opinionated code formatter for c#

Node.js

• Node.js - Native test runner
• Sarah Gooding - Node.js Community Debate Intensifies Over Enabling Corepack by Default and Potentially Unbundling npm

Windows

• Microsoft - Introducing Sudo for Windows!

Coding Life

• Gergely Orosz - Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?

Management

• Matthew Roche - Being a PM at Microsoft: Thriving in ambiguity
• Forbes - CEOs Are Using Return To Office Mandates To Mask Poor Management
• The Register - Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

Industry

• Matthew Ball - On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed

Security

• Virgil Security - Essential security platform for your product
• Mateusz Jendza - Time for Passwordless

Trivia

• Jason Grigsby - Handling Death Gracefully in Digital Experiences

12th February 2024

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Architecture

• George Ball - Achieving High Throughput Without Sacrificing Latency
• Luc van Donkersgoed - The single-tenancy to multi-tenancy spectrum
• Microsoft - Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints using containers
• Wim Debreuck - Event Driven Architecture & Governance in action
• Martin Schimak - Tackling Complex Event Flows
• Eric Evans, Dave Farley - Applying DDD Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
• Nick Tune - Architecting for Independent Value Streams
• Tim Wellhausen, Andreas Fießer - How to write a pattern? A rough guide for first-time pattern authors
• Neil B. Harrison - Advanced Pattern Writing. Patterns for Experienced Pattern Authors

DevOps

• Gregor Hohpe - Application architecture as code

Testing

• clumsy - Makes your network condition on Windows significantly worse, but in a controlled and interactive manner

Frontend

• Robin Wieruch - React Trends in 2024

Azure

• Paul Reardon - Azure free offerings
• Microsoft - A/B Testing Infrastructure Changes at Microsoft ExP

Go

• Mat Ryer - How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years

Java

• Devoxx Belgium - Ask the Java Architects By Sharat Chander, Alan Bateman, Stuart Marks, Viktor Klang, Brian Goetz

.NET

• Tim Deschryver - Translating Exceptions into Problem Details Responses
• Fga.Net - OpenFGA & Auth0 FGA for ASP.NET Core + Worker Services
• Reqnroll - Open-source Cucumber-style BDD test automation framework for .NET
• Cronos - Fully-featured .NET library for working with Cron expressions. Built with time zones in mind and intuitively handles daylight saving time transitions

Node.js

• Oskar Dudycz - Announcing Emmett! Take your event-driven applications back to the future!
• Emmett - a Node.js library taking your event-driven applications back to the future!

Performance

• MIT - Performance Engineering of Software Systems Course

Management

• Cliff Hazell - The one thing nobody copies from Spotify

Industry

• Tech Policy Press - The Dangers of Moving Key Internet Governance Functions to Amazon’s Cloud: The Case of the Netherlands

Security

• ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you
• The Hacker News - Hackers Exploit Job Boards, Stealing Millions of Resumes and Personal Data
• ArsTechnica - Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown
• Information is beautiful - World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks

Trivia

• Paul Graham - Life is Short

5th February 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Production-Grade Event Sourcing Workshop - Modelling, DevOps, Process
• RevenueCat - Scaling smoothly: RevenueCat’s data-caching techniques for 1.2 billion daily API requests
• Lastminute.com - Evolution of a high-performance system: from synchronous to seamless scalability
• Alex Strachan - Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency
• Alistair Cockburn - Hexagonal Architecture from its Inventor
• Ian Cooper - Adopting Polyglot Flow
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Announces the Graduation of CloudEvents
• SingleStone - New Miro Templates for Domain-Driven Discovery
• Jeff Atwood - When Understanding means Rewriting
• Kris Van Vlaenderen - 5 pitfalls to avoid when implementing an Event-Driven Architecture

DevOps

• Charity Majors - Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering

Databases

• Greg Wilson - SQL for Data Scientists in 100 Queries

Testing

• Microsoft - APIs testing using HTTP files and Rest Client
• Hillel Wayne - I have complicated feelings about TDD

AI

• LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• Rachel Coldicutt - Is it possible for general purpose AI to do no harm?

.NET

• Kyle Kukshtel - So You Wanna Package Some Native Libs Into A NuGet Package
• Nicholas Blumhardt - SerilogTracing
• Charles Chen - .NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels
• Egil Hansen - Testing .NET Web APIs from A to Z

Node.js

• Yoni Goldberg - The Node.js best practices list

Smalltalk

• Alec Sharp - Smalltalk By Example

TypeScript

• Christian Woerz - A Deep Dive into Advanced TypeScript: A Live Coding Expedition

Management

• Avraham Poupko - You can’t fight Conway’s law
• Jamie McDonald - Roadmaps are tools
• Sam-Nicolai Johnston - Improving Delivery Rate by Subtasking

Industry

• ArsTechnica - Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

Security

• Cloudflare - Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

29th January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How TypeScript can help in modelling business workflows
• Fathom Analytics - Reducing our AWS bill by $100,000
• Pierre Pureur - How Much Architecture Is “Enough?”: Balancing the MVP and MVA Helps You Make Better Decisions
• Discord - Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
• Jack Vanlightly - The advantages of queues on logs
• Andrea Medda, Matt Boyle - Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages
• Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz - Ports and Adapters Pattern
• Cyrille Martraire - Domain modeling with monoids
• Mario Bittencourt - Why AsyncAPI Matters — Bridging the Gap in API Documentation — Part I
• Eduardo da Silva - Towards Architecture Organization Topologies for Sustainable Fast Flow of Change
• Nick Tune - Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team

DevOps

• Bernard Pietraga - Practical solutions for dealing with high cardinality metrics
• Dreams of Code - Using docker in unusual ways

Databases

• Gwen Shapira - The Rise of the Serverless Data Architectures
• QuestDB - An open source time-series database for fast ingest and SQL queries
• Alicja Kucharczyk: Leveraging pgBadger for Effective PostgreSQL Troubleshooting
• PopSQL - How to Calculate Cumulative Sum-Running Total in PostgreSQL

AI

• The Motte - ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023
• Wired - Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

.NET

• Joel Verhagen - The fastest CSV parser in .NET
• Aaron Stannard - How to Distribute Roslyn Analyzers via NuGet
• Microsoft - Introducing the MSTest Runner – CLI, Visual Studio, & More
• .NET Team - Eventing Framework in .NET 9

Node.js

• TypeBox - Json Schema Type Builder with Static Type Resolution for TypeScript

Product Design

• Oskar Dudycz - When Agile is not enough
• Henrik Kniberg - Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable
• Rik Higham - The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT.

Management

• Simon Wardley - Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners
• Bjarte Bogsnes - Hitting the target but missing the point - myths about target setting
• Atlassian - Lessons Learned: 1,000 Days of Distributed at Atlassian

Industry

• John Gruber - Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps
• ArsTechnica - Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming
• The Markup - Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

22nd January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Stream ids, event types prefixes and other event data you might not want to slice off
• Andreas Pinhammer - DDD in large product portfolios
• Slack - Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture
• Pete Hodgson - Tech Debt Walls
• Netflix - Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices
• Phil Calçado - Pattern: Using Pseudo-URIs with Microservices
• MongoDB - A Comprehensive Guide to Data Modeling
• MongoDB - Data Modeling for MongoDB
• InfoQ - The InfoQ Trends Reports 2023 eMag
• Ryan Shriver - Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery
• C.ristian Axenie, O. López-Corona, M. A. Makridis, M. Akbarzadeh, M. Saveriano, A. Stancu, J. West - Antifragility as a complex system's response to perturbations, volatility, and time
• Barry M O’Reilly - An Introduction to Residuality Theory: Software Design Heuristics for Complex Systems
• GitHub - Our move to generated SDKs

DevOps

• Garrit Franke - Cost per Request
• Martin Fowler - Continuous Integration

Frontend

• Tomasz Ducin - Signals are VALUES, not EVENTS
• The AHA Stack - Combine Astro, htmx and Alpine.js to create modern web applications sending HTML over the wire, replacing the SPA JS-heavy approach with a much simpler set of mental models and workflows.

Hardware

• Roy Longbottom - Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets

AI

• A. Tornhill, M. Borg, E. Mones - Refactoring vs Refuctoring: Advancing the state of AI-automated code improvements

AWS

• InfoQ - AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, Their Sole Relational Database with Scaling Capacity to Zero

Azure

• Piotr Krukowski - Azure Cosmos DB RBAC and passwordless authentication

Java

• Johannes Bechberger - Hello eBPF: Developing eBPF Apps in Java (1)

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Building a Critter Stack Application: Messaging with Rabbit MQ
• Cezary Piątek - Mocking GraphQL queries with WireMock.NET
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - ASP.NET Basics for Experts with Layla Porter
• .NET Rocks - .NET 8 Migration with Jimmy Bogard

TypeScript

• Wojciech Baczyński - Branding & Flavoring

Coding Life

• Ketan Bhatt - Don’t be the Alpha Geek: Your team deserves better

Management

• Ted Neward - We Need to Talk. If we can't use this, what do we use instead?

Industry

• BBC News - Post Office scandal explained: What the Horizon saga is all about
• Wikipedia - British Post Office scandal

15th January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Should you record multiple events from business logic?
• Martin Schimak - Know the Flow! Events, Commands & Long-Running Services
• Nick Tune - Beyond Problem and Solution Space: Better models for modern product development
• Maciej 'MJ' Jedrzejewski - Mastering Strategic Domain-Driven Design – 6. Context Map
• Simon Wardley - Wardley Maps and Cynefin
• Leslie Lamport - Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• The Seattle Times - Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
• Gartner - Software Engineering Predicts 2024: Leadership During Disruption

DevOps

• OpenTofu - OpenTofu is going GA
• Awesome Self-Hosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
• Julia Evans - Some notes on NixOS

AI

• The Guardian - ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
• The Guardian - ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
• ArsTechnica - UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
• Einar W. Høst - The AI Puppet Dance
• Mike Loukides - Can Language Models Replace Compilers? Don’t get your hopes up
• Karawynn Long - Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
• Futurism - Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like "I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy"

C

• Stephen Kell - Some Were Meant for C.The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language

Functional Programming

• Tomas Petricek - What we talk about when we talk about monads

JavaScript

• Feross Aboukhadijeh - When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024

.NET

• João Antunes - A .NET parallel Kafka consumer proof of concept (feat. Akka.NET and the actor model)
• Falco.Htmx - An experimental Falco integration with htmx JS package.
• Andrew Lock - A brief look at StringValues
• Gérald Barré - Making primary constructor parameters read-only

Tools

• Jacqui Read - How to get started with Obsidian Dataview and DataviewJS
• Everything curl - an extensive guide for all things curl.
• Cloudglare Website Analytics - Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics—for free

Coding Life

• Steph Ango - Don't specialize, hybridize
• Salem Group - Unlocking the Secrets of T-Shaped and V-Shaped Employees: How to Position Yourself for Career Success
• Vanderbilt University - Just-in-Time Teaching
• M. Gupta, A. Sharma - Fear of missing out: A brief overview of origin, theoretical underpinnings and relationship with mental health

Management

• Luxshan Ratnaravi — A puppy dies when agile meets reality

Industry

• Rand Fishkin - Google, Apple, and Amazon Stifle Innovation When They Favor Their Own Products
• The Register - Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers
• The Verge - Unity is laying off 25 percent of its staff
• The Verge - Amazon lays off more than 500 employees in its Twitch unit

Trivia

• The Washington Post - No one had ever ‘beat’ Tetris. Then came a 13-year-old phenom.

8th January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Not all issues are complex, some are complicated. Here's how to deal with them
• Leslie Lamport - A Science of Concurrent Programs
• Dave Snowden - Complex Adaptive Systems
• Thomas Pierrain - Discover ReBAC, the next-generation authorization model compatible with DDD
• Steve Sanderson - Keynote: Where Web Tech is Going Now
• Jake Lazaroff - The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist
• Gunnar Morling - Seven Ways to Put CDC to Work
• Shopify - Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern
• Indi Young - Why Problem Space?

Testing

• Scott Wlaschin - The lazy programmer's guide to writing thousands of tests

DevOps

• Google - Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 7: Software Quality
• Sean Trane - GitHub Labels that are logical, colorful and sensible
• Dennis Doomen - 22 reasons to ditch Azure DevOps and switch to GitHub as soon as possible

AWS

• Yan Cui - This is why you should keep stateful and stateless resources together

Java

• JVM Weekly - Everything you might have missed in Java in 2023 – JVM Weekly vol. 66

.NET

• Vogen - A semi-opinionated library which is a source generator and a code analyser. It Source generates Value Objects
• Fluid - An open-source .NET template engine based on the Liquid template language.
• Cezary Piątek - Common Setup and Teardown in dotnet tests without test framework magic
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Faster .NET Database Integration Tests with Respawn and xUnit

Node.js

• Nick Scialli - How to use HTTP2 with Express.js and test it locally

TypeScript

• TSDocs.dev - Browse type documentation for JS libraries

Management

• Charity Mayors - Becoming An Engineering Manager Can Make You Better At Life And Relationships
• Gergely Orosz - Inside Stripe’s Engineering Culture - Part 1

Product Design

• David Bland - An Introduction to Experiment Pairing

Industry

• Financial Times - Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’
• Armin Ronacher - The Life and Death of Open Source Companies
• Josef Průša - The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023

Security

• Jason Koebler - Polish Hackers Say Manufacturer's Repair DRM Killed Train's Power, Broke Compressor
• The Verge - Microsoft is overhauling its software security after major Azure cloud attacks

1st January 2024

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Architecture

• Florian Bellmann - You are never taught how to build quality software
• Denise Yu - Why are Distributed Systems so hard? A network partition survival guide
• Dave Snowden - Patterns all the way down
• Alessio Coser - Escaping the magics of the frameworks: 5. The framework

DevOps

• CoRecursive - Platform Takes The Pain The Inside Story of Spotify's Engineering Growth

AI

• Martin Krasser - Implementing JSON mode for open LLMs
• Rafal Gancarz - Griffin 2.0: Instacart Revamps Its Machine Learning Platform
• GitHub - GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals

Java

• Vlad Mihalcea - The best way to map multiple entities on the same table
• Sirisha Pratha - Spring Boot 3.2 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Modern RestClient and JdbcClient

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Building a Critter Stack Application: Durable Outbox Messaging and Why You Care!
• Ian Russell - Discriminated Unions in C#
• Milan Jovanović - Global Error Handling in ASP.NET Core 8
• Michael Shpilt - How to Debug LINQ queries in C#

Rust

• Iggy.rs - building message streaming in Rust.

Tools

• Scott McKendry - The 5 Stages of Vim: A Humbling Experience

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - What Dune can tell us about setting our goals
• Barry Overeem - Programmer- or Product Developer? Why The Difference Matters!
• CoRecursive Podcast - Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow with Ben Dumke-von der Ehe

Management

• Jeff Gothelf - Roadmaps are linear. Software projects aren’t.
• Jeff Wofford - How to Boss Without Being Bossy
• Stephen P. Anderson - Toward A New Model for Corporate Learning and Development (Part 1)

Industry

• Reuters - Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
• Justin Garrison - Amazon's Silent Sacking
• Adrian Cockcroft - Signs that it’s time to leave a company…
• The Verge - The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
• Axios - Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity

Security

• Debian Public Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive

Trivia

• Dan Luu - How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
• TechDirt - Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign

25th December 2023

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Architecture

• Andrea Magnorsky - Knowledge sharing is Systems building
• Pete Hodgson - Expand/Contract: making a breaking change without a big bang
• Yan Cui - How to perform database migration for a live service with no downtime
• Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
• Oddly Influenced Podcast - Interview: Glenn Vanderburg on engineering
• Stefan Tilkov - Practical (a.k.a. Actually Useful) Architecture
• Einar Høst — Agile and Architecture: a meeting of the undead
• Julien Topçu, Josian Chevalier - Model Mitosis
• McDonald's Technical Blog - Hexagonal Architectures — the sequel

DevOps

• Martin Thwaites - Building a secure OpenTelemetry Collector
• Kubernetes Unpacked Podcast - Kubernetes Long-Term Support With Kubernetes Co-Founder Brendan Burns

Databases

• Gwen Shapira - Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained
• Jepsen - MySQL 8.0.34
• Rajendra Gupta - Table Partitioning in Azure SQL Database
• Branimir Lambov, Shylaja Kokoori - Memtable Pluggability and Alternate Memtables (CEP-11 & CEP-19) in Cassandra

Frontend

• Netlify - Unveiling the state of web development and predictions for 2024 and beyond

AI

• Daily Beast - AI-Written Homework Is Rising. So Are False Accusations

Java

• A N M Bazlur Rahman - Stream API Evolution: a Closer Look at JEP 461's Stream Gatherers
• Inside Java - Introducing the Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Why I won't use .NET Aspire for now
• Anthony Simmon - Exploring the Microsoft Developer Control Plane at the heart of the new .NET Aspire
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - MemoizR - Declarative Structured Concurrency for C#
• Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez - Revisiting WASM for F#
• Jeffrey Rennie - Turn your ASP.NET MVC/Razor Website into a SPA Without Blazor

Coding Life

• Jeff Atwood - The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
• Will Larson - Notes on How Big Things Get Done

Product Design

• The Logan Bartlett Show - Confluent’s Resilient Rise To Software Juggernaut with Jay Kreps
• Krisztina Hirth - Shifting from Projects to Feedback-Based Product Dev: Practical Tips and Insights
• Penpot - The Open-Source design & prototyping platform

Industry

• The Verge - Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma
• Figma - Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
• The Verge - 2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse

Trivia

• Northeastern Global News - Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say

18th December 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Hitchhiker's Guide To Moving From Relational Data To Events
• Dave Farley - Engineering for Software
• Hillel Wayne - Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?
• EDA Summit - 2023 Summit Sessions
• Pierre Pureur - 12 Software Architecture Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
• Martin Kleppmann, Jesse Anderson - Designing A Data-Intensive Future: Expert Talk
• Graphite - Why we use AWS instead of Vercel to host our Next.js app
• Erik Wilde, Fran Mendez - AsyncAPI 3.0: What's new and should you upgrade?
• DDDUS Online Meetup - Alexander Miertsch - prooph board

DevOps

• Honeycomb - Observability Is About Confidence
• Gregor Hohpe - The Magic of Platforms
• Fly.io - Rethinking Serverless with FLAME

Databases

• Arslan Ahmad - Scaling SQL Databases: 8 Challenges of Horizontally Scaling SQL Databases
• Redis - Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)
• Oren Eini - Production Postmortem. The Spawn of Denial of Service

Frontend

• Scott Jehl - How to Use Responsive HTML Video (...and Audio!)
• Facebook - Introducing StyleX
• Dan Abramov - A Chain Reaction

Testing

• Kent Beck - Canon TDD

AI

• DropBox - Introducing new tools for the next generation of knowledge work
• CNBC - How to stop Dropbox from sharing your personal files with OpenAI
• Simon Willison - The AI trust crisis

JVM

• Jean-Philippe Bempel - Chasing a Metaspace leak

.NET

• James Hickey - High-Performance .NET CRON Jobs
• Layla Porter - Cloud-native apps with .NET Aspire
• Damian Płaza - FSM - Functional State Machines
• Fiodar Sazanavets - Building your own audio player with .NET – part 1
• NDepend - .NET Native AOT Explained

Rust

• The Register - Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge

Coding Life

• Matt Wynne - Cognitive Load for Knowledge Work

Industry

• Hashicorp - Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
• TechCrunch - Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
• The Verge - Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

Security

• Kelly Shortridge - Cybersecurity Isn’t Special
• PromptArmor, Kai Greshake - Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection

Trivia

• Octavia E. Butler - A Few Rules For Predicting The Future

11th December 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - A few notes on migrating storage library
• Werner Vogels - Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond
• JetBrains - The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023
• HubSpot - Handling Imbalanced Traffic with Kafka Swimlanes
• Urs Enzler - Our Experience with Bi-temporal Event Sourcing
• J. Varajão, A. Trigo, M. Almeida - Low-code Development Productivity. "Is winter coming" for code-based technologies?
• Adrian Cockcroft - Measuring Carbon is Not Enough — Unintended Consequences
• Trond Hjorteland - Human centred system design
• API Evolution - REST vs RPC. Verbs are just not that evil

AI

• Android Developers Blog - A New Foundation for AI on Android
• The Verge - Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4
• Martin Fowler - Latest Memo: How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants
• JetBrains - AI Launch Event

DevOps

• Bryan Boreham - How Prometheus Halved Its Memory Usage
• OTelBin - Web-based tool to facilitate OpenTelemetry collector configuration editing and verification
• Prometheus + Grafana + Loki in docker

Databases

• SQLite - JSONB has landed

Testing

• Kent Beck - TDD Isn't Design
• Kamil Grzybek - Automated Tests: Strategy

AWS

• Werner Vogels - AWS re:Invent 2023 - Keynote

Java

• JVM Weekly - Feature Freeze for JDK 22: What Will the New Edition Bring? - JVM Weekly vol. 63

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Practical Introduction to Event Sourcing
• Microsoft - Building resilient cloud services with .NET 8
• Shay Rojansky - DbDataSource, a new System.Data abstraction
• Aaron Stannard - 10 Years of Building Akka.NET
• Steven Kirk - 10 years of Avalonia!

Coding Life

• Jessica Kerr - Enabling Gaps

Management

• Engineer's Codex - How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction

Industry

• Bryce Wray - Firefox on the brink?
• ArsTechnica - Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition
• CNBC - Spotify jumps after saying it will cut 17% of workforce — read the full memo from CEO Daniel Ek
• The Register - 40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs
• The State of Inclusion in Dutch Tech
• VideoCardz - U.S. issues warning to NVIDIA, urging to stop redesigning chips for China

4th December 2023

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Architecture

• Sonya Natanzon - It’s a Feature, Not a Bug: A Step-by-step Guide to Architectural Decisions
• Forbes - Citibank’s Billion-Dollar Mistake And How It Turned Out Two Years Later
• Ashley Davis - The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
• Tomasz Stolarczyk - Who calls who? — a simple events heuristic
• Jake Lazaroff - An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

DevOps

• Evan Bottcher - What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms

Frontend

• AirBnb - A Deep Dive into Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System

AI

• Alan Blackwell - ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit

AWS

• AWS - AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests
• AWS - External endpoints and testing of task states now available in AWS Step Functions

Go

• Miłosz Smółka - Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners

Java

• Olga Gupalo - Working with Native Image Efficiently

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Are you Marten or Wolverine user? Tell us more!
• Steve Gordon - Profiling Memory Allocations on Linux using the JetBrains dotMemory Command-Line Profiler
• Andrew Lock - Behind [LogProperties] and the new telemetry logging source generator
• Tim Deschryver - Intercepting HTTP requests with a DelegatingHandler
• Microsoft - How to make libraries compatible with native AOT

Coding Life

• Alexander Reelsen - Goodbye DevRel… (for now)
• Troy Hunt - A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Management

• Urs Enzler - The caretaker model – our way of working
• Will Larson - Navigators
• Sumeet Gayathri Moghe - Adopting Asynchronous Collaboration in Distributed Software Teams

Industry

• Gergely Orosz - A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed
• Fempire - A list of women tech speakers & organizers
• Duke University Libraries - Why We’re Dropping Basecamp
• The Verge - Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats

Security

• ArsTechnica - Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
• Kevin Beaumont - What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US.

Trivia

• Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen - How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Kendra Albert - Care, Not Respect: Teaching Professionalism

27th November 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to deal with privacy and GDPR in Event-Driven systems
• OneUptime - How moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230,000 /yr.
• Spotify - Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly
• Prefixy - How We Built Prefixy: A Scalable Prefix Search Service for Powering Autocomplete
• Krzysztof Przychodzki - Beyond the Code - An Engineer’s Battle Against Knowledge Loss
• Jay Kreps - Streaming into the Future - The Evolution & Impact of Data Streaming Platforms
• Jeff Chao - Squirreling Away $640 Billion: How Stripe Leverages Flink for Change Data Capture (slides)
• Sandi Metz - The Wrong Abstraction
• Claire Carroll - How to be a more Impactful Data Analyst
• Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski - Mastering Strategic Domain-Driven Design - 4. Tuning of Subdomains
• Gien Verschatse - Collaborative Software Design
• Nick Tune - Sustainable software development with collaborative domain modeling

DevOps

• CNCF - Platforms White Paper
• M. McLean, T. Young, A. Sharma, D. Dyla - OpenTelemetry: What's Next? Logs, Profiles...
• Rouan Wilsenach - Ship / Show / Ask. A modern branching strategy
• Yan Cui - Charity Majors on DevOps culture and team dynamic
• Nitric - Why we chose Pulumi over Terraform

API

• API Evangelist - Where Is This API Gateway Thing Going?
• Stefan Tilkov - Why “API-first” might not be a good idea

Databases

• Hussein Nasser - How Shopify’s engineering improved database writes by 50% with ULID
• The Geek Narrator - Graph Database Internals: @neo4j with Michael Hunger

Frontend

• NgRx - Introducing NgRx Signals, Operators, Performance Improvements, Workshops, and more!
• Vite - Vite 5.0 is out!

Testing

• Microsoft - Consumer-driven Contract Testing

Java

• Viktor Klang - Teaching old Streams new tricks

.NET

• Rich Lander - .NET 8 container workshop
• David Whitney - Lo-Fi Service Discovery in .NET8
• Microsoft - Lesson Learned #449: Unleashing Concurrent Threads for Robust Database Health Checks in C#
• Tim Deschryver - NuGet Central Package Management

Industry

• Phil Fersht, Saurabh Gupta - Services firms are out of runway. They must forget Labor Arbitrage and conform to Technology Arbitrage
• The Verge - Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI

Security

• Tom's Hardware - Chinese hackers steal chip designs from major Dutch semiconductor company — perps lurked for over two years to steal NXP's chipmaking IP: Report
• ArsTechnica - Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code

Trivia

• Christine Shea, Chris. W. Johnson - Understanding the Contribution of Degraded Modes of Operation as a Cause of Incidents and Accidents in Air Traffic Management

20th November 2023

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Architecture

• Mario Bittencourt - BPMN for Profit and Fun: Seamless Teams Collaboration in Software Development
• Emily Rosengren - Can We Please Stop Talking About Tech Debt?
• Continuous Delivery - Visualizing & Prioritizing Technical Debt To Identify RED CODE with Adam Tornhill
• Brian Foote, Joseph Yoder - Big Ball of Mud
• David Hope - Understand your data requirements
• Mihir Sathe - Load Balancing: A More Realistic Model
• AirBnB - Scaling Airbnb’s Payment Platform

DevOps

• Google - Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering. Or, Eleven things we have learned as Site Reliability Engineers at Google

API

• IETF - The Idempotency-Key HTTP Header Field

Testing

• The NewStack - The Struggle for Microservice Integration Testing

Frontend

• Micro Frontends Meetup - State of Micro Frontends with Luca Mezzalira
• HTML First
• Jake Lazaroff - Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework
• CSS-Tricks - Web Components Are Easier Than You Think

AI

• Jodie Burchell - Garbage data in, garbage models out

Azure

• azcagit - GitOps Engine for Azure Container Apps

Java

• Yishai Galat - Java at AWS: Lessons Learned from Upgrading and Modernizing a Massive JVM Codebase

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - We introduced support plans for Marten
• Microsoft - Announcing .NET 8
• Microsoft - .NET Conf 2023
• Microsoft - Introducing .NET Aspire: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8
• Microsoft - Announcing F# 8

Rust

• NGINX - Extending NGINX with Rust (an Alternative to C)

Management

• Ivar Jacobson, Alistair Cockburn - Use Cases are Essential
• Charity Majors - Compliance standards should be modern development practices

Product Design

• Joakim Sundén - The Product Model at Spotify

Industry

• Simon Wardley - Why open source AI matters.
• OpenAI - OpenAI announces leadership transition
• The Verge - OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
• The Verge - Sam Altman isn’t coming back to OpenAI
• The Verge - Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Security

• BleepingComputer - New Microsoft Exchange zero-days allow RCE, data theft attacks

13th November 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - GDPR for busy developers
• Adrian Cockcroft - Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) from Netflix
• Pierre Pureur - Has Your Architectural Decision Record Lost Its Purpose?
• Yves Goeleven - What is Event Modeling? (with example)
• Ludic - I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars
• Mark Nottingham - Technical Standards Bodies are Regulators
• Arpit Bhayani - Understanding the read-your-write consistency and why it is important
• Joseph-Emmanuel Banzio - Building a reliable notification system
• Olimpiu Pop - Do Gen AI and OSS Regulation Bring Us Further Away from Exiting the Dependency Hell?
• Michael Shpilt - Premature Infrastructure is the Root of All Evil

DevOps

• Paul Ingles - Convergence to Kubernetes
• Martin Thwaites - How to Avoid Paying for Honeycomb

Databases

• Fujitsu - What are the partitioning types available in PostgreSQL, and how should I choose one?

Testing

• Ivan Dugalic - Specification By Example

Node.js

• Kent C. Dodds - Why I Won't Use Next.js
• Lee Robinson - Why I'm Using Next.js
• Ethan Glover - I Hate NestJS

AI

• GitHub - Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
• Docker - Docker with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama Launches New GenAI Stack for Developers
• The Verge - AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
• The White House - FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
• GitHub - The architecture of today’s LLM applications
• bloop - ChatGPT for your code. Ask questions in natural language, search for code and generate patches using your existing codebase as context.

Java

• Brian Goetz - A Classfile API for the JDK

JVM

• Adam Warski - Limits of Loom's performance

.NET

• Guilherme Ferreira - Apache Kafka in 1 hour for C# Developers
• Steve Gordon - Automating Memory Profiling with the JetBrains dotMemory Profiler API
• Andrew Lock - Avoiding flaky tests with TimeProvider and ITimer
• Stephen Cleary - ConfigureAwait in .NET 8

TypeScript

• Amir Khansari - TypeScript prototype of the Decider pattern

WebAssembly

• Google - WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) now enabled by default in Chrome

Industry

• Dennis Doomen - Monetizing open-source development and supporting the community
• The Register - Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland
• Molly White - Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges

Security

• The Linux Foundation - App Defense Alliance Migrates Under Joint Development Foundation with Google, Meta, and Microsoft as the Steering Committee
• Mailbox.org - Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft

6th November 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Anti-patterns in event modelling - Clickbait event
• Sam Newman - You Keep Using That Word: Asynchronous And Interprocess Comms
• IcePanel - C4 Model - Getting Started Workshop
• Carl Sverre - Offline and Thriving: Building Resilient Applications with Local-First Techniques
• Jonas Bonér - Designing Events-First Microservices
• Michael Feathers - Moving Past the Scaling Myth
• Nigel Thurlow - A series of exploratory sessions on the OODA Loop. (observe, orient, decide, act)
• Marc Brooker - Optimism vs Pessimism in Distributed Systems

DevOps

• HashiCorp - Terraform 1.6 adds a test framework for enhanced code validation

Databases

• Cloudflare - Hyperdrive: making databases feel like they’re global

API

• Sam Combs - Accelerating GraphQL API Development with Schema Storming and Code-first Implementation

AWS

• AWS - Amazon SNS now supports in-place message archiving and replay for FIFO topics

Azure

• Microsoft - Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps

.NET

• Brandon Minnick - Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 8
• Layla Porter - ASP.NET Basics for Experts
• Jeremy D. Miller - Low Ceremony Web Service Development with the Critter Stack
• Steven Giesel - Interfaces can have private methods

Node.js

• Analog - The fullstack Angular meta-framework
• Hono - Fast, Lightweight, Web-standards
• Fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

PHP

• Dariusz Gafka - Finally, Tracing in PHP — Say Hello to OpenTelemetry

WebAssembly

• Colin Eberhardt - The State of WebAssembly 2023

Tools

• Sameer Kumar - Overcoming Vim-Phobia: My Journey of Redemption

Coding Life

• Emily Bache - Technical Coaching with the Samman method

Product Design

• Pawel Huryn - How to Craft a Winning Product Strategy

Management

• Aleix Morgadas - Design and execute your own engineering strategy
• Ryan Bonnici - Why I Encourage My Best Employees to Consider Outside Job Offers

Industry

• Business Insider - The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem
• Serverless Framework - V4: A New Model

30th October 2023

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Architecture

• Forrest Brazeal - Wait, is cloud bad?
• TechDirt - The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center
• Mark Richards - Software Architecture Monday Lessons
• AWS Database Blog - How Zalando migrated their shopping carts to Amazon DynamoDB from Apache Cassandra
• Rebecca Parsons - How Will Evolutionary Architecture Evolve?
• Eberhard Wolff — Software Architecture for Humans!
• Maxime Sanglan-Charlier & Nick Tune - From Domain Boundaries to Software Architecture
• Jez Humble, Holly Cummins - The Current State of Software Engineering
• Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter Alvaro - Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency is Easy
• Mark Seemann - Do ORMs reduce the need for mapping?
• Mark Seemann - Domain Model first

Distributed Systems

• Andrew Schofield - Queues for Kafka
• Kafka - KIP-932: Queues for Kafka
• Gunnar Morling - Change Data Streaming Patterns With Debezium & Apache Flink | Decodable

DevOps

• Clare Sudbery - Continuous Integration: That’s Not What They Meant

Databases

• Pete Naylor - Single table design for DynamoDB: The reality
• Developer Voices Podcast - Semantic Search: A Deep Dive Into Vector Databases (with Zain Hasan)
• FerretDB - A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative
• Electric - Local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps. Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.

Frontend

• Amy Kapernick - Your website does not need JavaScript

AI

• Olena Kutsenko - TensorFlow, Postgres, PGVector & Next.js: building a movie recommender

Java

• Jarosław Pałka - Bare metal Java

.NET

• Khalid Abuhakmeh - How to use Testcontainers with .NET Unit Tests
• Gérald Barré - Customizing the behavior of record copy constructors
• Tim Deschryver - How to fully leverage Wolverine with its HTTP package
• Patrick Smacchia - C# Record Explained

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Women in IT

Product Design

• Crisp Academy - Master Class with Marty Cagan
• Pawel Huryn - How to Craft a Winning Product Strategy

Industry

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - McKinsey
• TechRadar - Microsoft is reportedly losing huge amounts of money on GitHub Copilot
• ZDNet - Microsoft has over a million paying Github Copilot users: CEO Nadella

Security

• Brian Krebs - Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit
• CloudFlare - How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
• Rest of World - Signal President Meredith Whittaker on resisting government threats to privacy

23rd October 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - In the defence of Object-Relational Mappers
• Engineering at Meta - Automating product deprecation
• GitHub - Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry
• Mauro Servienti - The power of timeouts to compensate for failures and other tales
• Ken Mugrage - Why embracing complexity is the real challenge in software today
• Alanna Burke - Creating a Culture of Documentation
• Layla Porter - Understanding Microservices: A Guide For the Monolithic Developer
• Derek Comartin - Event-Driven Architecture Gotcha! Inside or Outside Events

Databases

• Martin Heinz - You Don't Need a Dedicated Cache Service - PostgreSQL as a Cache
• Greg Sabino Mullane - PostgreSQL Unlogged Tables - Look Ma, No WAL!
• Adriano Caloiaro - Choose Postgres queue technology

AI

• Reuven Lerner - I’m banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python

AWS

• Luc van Donkersgoed - When the shoulders of giants are offered, you’d do well to stand on them

Node.js

• OpenJS Foundation - Node.js 21 Available Now!

.NET

• Mads Torgersen - What’s Next in C#?
• Jeremy D. Miller - Important Patterns Lurking in Your Persistence Tooling
• Andrew Lock - Updates to Docker images in .NET 8
• MongoDB - MongoDB Provider for Entity Framework Core Now Available in Public Preview

Tools

• Typesense - A fast, typo-tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences
• OpenFGA - Modeling Entitlements for a System with OpenFGA

Web Assembly

• Rafael Fernández - Running Wasm Workers Server in Docker Desktop

Management

• Hazel Weakly - The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact
• John Cutler - The Ultimate Guide to Developer Counter-Productivity
• Benji Weber - One does not simply deliver software
• Evan Czaplicki - The Hard Parts of Open Source
• Evan Czaplicki - The Economics of Programming Languages

Industry

• The Stack - HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless the open source model evolves
• Linus Foundation - How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects
• The Verge - Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators

Trivia

• Matt Wynne - Feminism
• Heikki Lotvonen - Amiga ASCII art

16th October 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Internal and external events, or how to design event-driven API
• Oskar Dudycz - Keep your streams short! Or how to model event-sourced systems efficiently
• AWS - How AWS protects customers from DDoS events
• Cloudflare - HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks
• Google - Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398 million rps
• Michael Schoenmaekers, Leon van Dooren - Empowering Security and Privacy. How Axon Framework and Axon Server helped Linckr to ISO Certification
• Hashnode - Hashnode's Overall Architecture. How Hashnode runs on a scale (almost) completely serverless
• Yan Cui - How I built an affiliate tracking system in a weekend with serverless
• Marc Klefter - Powering Event-Driven APIs with Event Sourcing
• Jim Fisher - Redis Pub/Sub under the hood
• Bilgin Ibryam - The Commoditization of the Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
• Derek Comartin - How to seed a new Microservice with data?
• Bart Wullems - Gall’s law and how it applies to software architecture

DevOps

• Malin Litwinski - Empathy: The Secret sauce of Resilience

Databases

• Timescale - How We Made PostgreSQL a Better Vector Database
• Timescale - Vector Cookbook. A collection of recipes to build applications with LLMs using PostgreSQL and Timescale Vector.
• .NET Rocks - Data Sharding with Oren Eini

API

• HTTPie Desktop — cross-platform API testing client for humans. Painlessly test REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs.

AWS

• AWS - GraphQL Gateway Based Federation with AWS AppSync and GraphQL Fusion

JVM

• Luiz Hespanha, Flavio Brasil - A JVM threading model for the containerized times

.NET

• Jamie Maguire - Handling Database Migrations in Mature Applications with Fluent Migrator
• Tim Deschryver - Wolverine is for the developers
• Anthony Simmon - Preventing breaking changes in .NET class libraries
• Jim Aho - .NET Developer on MacOS

Coding Life

• Taylor Poindexter, Scott Hanselman - How to Build a Meaningful Career

Management

• Gregor Ojstersek - How I measure developer productivity

Industry

• TechCrunch - Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M
• Harvard Business Review - When Blind Hiring Advances DEI — and When It Doesn’t
• The Register - Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster
• The Register - Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

Security

• Solid - A specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods
• Auth0 - In Celebration of Vittorio Bertocci

9th October 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How to design software architecture pragmatically
• Nathan Mraz - How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x
• Cycle - Scaling GraphQL with Postgres - Lessons learned from our database timeout issues
• Engineer's Codex - How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
• Jakob Ehn - Real Programmers Commit To Master
• Dave Snowden - the pachyderm post
• Mark Seemann - Dependency Whac-A-Mole
• Martin Kleppmann - New algorithms for collaborative text editing
• Kyle Carter - Analyzing New Unique Identifier Formats (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8)
• Jeremy D. Miller - The Lowly Strategy Pattern is Still Useful

DevOps

• Zalando - Sunrise: Zalando's developer platform based on Backstage
• GitLab - Building GitLab with GitLab: Why there is no MLOps without DevSecOps

Databases

• Oren Eini - RavenDB version 6.0 is now live
• Chelsea Dole - Understanding & Managing Postgres Table Bloat
• Nuri Halperin - Design Good Schemas - Get a Better Database
• Oracle - Experience the best of PostgreSQL with OCI Database with PostgreSQL

Azure

• Martin Thwaites - Creating an AKS cluster with WebApplication Routing using Pulumi

Java

• Cay S. Horstmann - Java 21: The Nice, The Meh, and the ... Momentous

.NET

• Roman Provazník - In Defense of Exceptions: Throw away your Result
• Andrew Lock - Can you use the .NET 8 Identity API endpoints with IdentityServer?
• Dennis Frühauff - How to version your ASP.NET API
• Microsoft - Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 8

Coding Life

• Julia Evans - Making Hard Things Easy
• Abin Simon - What is in that .git directory?

Management

• Alistair Cockburn - Why Agile Works

Product Design

• John Cutler - 15 Metaphors for Waste In Product Development

Industry

• Irish Data Protection Commission - Announces €345 million fine of TikTok
• Reuters - RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war
• Yahoo - Slack will pause normal business operations for one week on Monday because employees have fallen behind on internal training

Security

• NSA and CISA - Red and Blue Teams Share Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

2nd October 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Is the Strategy Pattern an ultimate solution for low coupling?
• Engineering at Meta - Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system
• Eric Evans - DDD and Microservices: At Last, Some Boundaries!
• Tomas Ekeli - On microservices
• Mauro Servienti - Append-only models: The why, the when, and the how

DevOps

• Rover - Interactive Terraform visualization. State and configuration explorer
• CloudNativePG - A Kubernetes operator that covers the full lifecycle of a PostgreSQL database cluster with a primary/standby architecture, using native streaming replication

AI

• Google - Pair Programming with a Large Language Model Free Online Course

AWS

• Yan Cui - Is Bun the Next Big Thing for AWS Lambda? A Thorough Investigation
• AWS - Give Your Graph Workload a Cost-Performance Boost with Neo4j and AWS Graviton

Azure

• Troy Hunt - How to get your SSL for free on a Shared Azure website with CloudFlare

Java

• Piotr Przybył - Java 21™ What's new and noteworthy?
• Oracle - Introducing GraalOS
• Johannes Bechberger - C2 might slow down your builds

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Wolverine Interoperability with Others
• Ian Russell - Testing C# with F#
• Andrew Poole - Async method chaining in C#
• Whaally.Domain - An orchestrator of core-domains, facilitating the abstraction of infrastructure, for a scalable domain model

Tools

• Zach Leatherman - Which Generator builds Markdown the fastest?

Coding Life

• Cloudflare - We rebuilt Cloudflare's developer documentation - here's what we learned

Management

• David D. Woods - The Strategic Agility Gap: How Organizations Are Slow and Stale to Adapt in Turbulent Worlds
• Jerry Neumann - Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You

Product Design

• Lenny's Newsletter - How Linear builds product

Industry

• U.S. Department of Justice - Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies
• Federate Trade Commision - FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
• CNBC - Apple exec Eddy Cue set to testify in Google trial about $19 billion search deal
• CNBC - Cloud stocks falter as Datadog trims 2023 revenue expectations

Security

• TechRepublic - White Hat Hackers Discover Microsoft Leak of 38TB of Internal Data Via Azure Storage
• TheRegister - Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads

25th September 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Oops I did it again, or how to update past data in Event Sourcing
• Yves Reynhout - The Workflow Pattern
• Ryan Shriver - Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model
• Derek Comartin - Alternative to the Outbox Pattern? Not so fast
• Mark Schwartz - Everyone is Busy: Who Has Time to Transform?
• Alex Russell - A Management Maturity Model for Performance
• Rob Eisenberg - Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of RUM

DevOps

• Seth Eliot - Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon.com Search Uses Chaos Engineering to Handle Over 84K Requests Per Second
• GitLab - 2023 Global DevSecOps Report
• ChartMuseum - an open-source, easy to deploy, Helm Chart Repository server

JavaScript

• Matteo Collina - My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures

AI

• HuggingFace - Red-Teaming Large Language Models

Java

• Inside Java - The Arrival of Java 21!
• Per Minborg - Java Records are "Trusted" and Consequently Faster

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Wolverine Expands its Multi-Tenancy Story to HTTP
• Maarten Balliauw - Discriminated Unions in C#
• Michal Strehovsky - Reverse engineering natively-compiled .NET apps
• Andrew Lock - Introducing the Identity API endpoints

Rust

• JetBrains - Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains

Coding Life

• Arslan Ahmad - Mastering the System Design Interview: A Complete Guide
• Atlassian - Merging vs. Rebasing

Management

• Aaron Stannard - Internal vs. External Accountabilities
• Jordan Cutler - Influence: Lessons from a Staff Engineer and ex-Twitter 8-year Tech Lead

Industry

• The Street - Salesforce CEO takes another bold stand on remote work
• IEEE Spectrum - The Top Programming Languages 2023, Python and SQL are on top, but old languages shouldn’t be forgotten
• ArsTechnica - Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
• phoronix - The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

Tools

• Free for Developers - This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings with free developer tiers

Security

• The Record - Microsoft accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of data from employee workstations
• ZDNet- Microsoft's CISO: Why we're trying to banish passwords forever
• GitHub - Passkeys are generally available
• The Web SSO Standard OpenID Connect: In-Depth Formal Security Analysis and Security Guidelines

18th September 2023

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Architecture

• Humble Bundle - Software Architecture O'Reilly book bundle
• D4Debugging - Application Caching Strategies
• The InfoQ Pocast- Roi Ravhon on FinOps, Application Unit Economics, and Cloud Cost Optimization
• System Design - Slack Architecture
• Greg Young - 8 Lines of Code
• Steve "Ardalis" Smith - The More You Know The More You Realize You Don't Know

DevOps

• Octopus Deploy - Measuring Continuous Delivery and DevOps

Databases

• Postgres - PostgreSQL 16 Released!
• Glauber Costa - SQLite-based databases on the postgres protocol? Yes we can!
• Google - SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System
• WatermelonDB - Reactive & asynchronous database for powerful React and React Native apps

Testing

• Jeremy D. Miller - Notes on Teaching Test Driven Development
• Ian Russell - Introduction to TDD

AI

• InfoQ - AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report - September 2023
• P. Covington, J. Adams, E. Sargin - Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations
• Elaine Atwell - GitHub Copilot Isn't Worth the Risk

Azure

• Microsoft - What is a multi-tenant organization in Azure Active Directory?

Java

• Artur Skowroński - What is the future of Java in today’s enterprise?

.NET

• Maciej Jędrzejewski, Kamil Bączek - Evolutionary Architecture
• Steven Giesel - struct vs readonly struct vs ref struct vs record struct
• Marina Sundström - The anatomy of an ASP.NET Core app
• MiniExcel - Fast, Low-Memory, Easy Excel .NET helper to import/export/template spreadsheet

TypeScript

• Sergiy Biluk - Type negation in TypeScript

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Architecture Weekly became the Substack Bestseller!
• The Wall Street Journal - Try Hard, but Not That Hard. 85% Is the Magic Number for Productivity
• Uwe Friedrichsen - Forget efficiency

Product Design

• Justin Jackson - How I would build a new startup if I had to do it all over

Industry

• Unity - Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
• Game Developer - The Death of Unity
• ArsTechnica - Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that?
• Business Insider - I earned up to $130K in tech roles, but the jobs felt fake. Here's why I think startups hire people to build a brand only to fire them later on.
• The Guardian - Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses

Security

• ArsTechnica - Microsoft finally explains cause of Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked
• authentik - An open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility
• Kristina Yasuda, Torsten Lodderstedt - OpenID for Verifiable Presentations

11th September 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - My journey from Aggregates to Functional Composition
• Virtual DDD - Fireside chat: Orchestration and choreography with Laila Bougria & Udi Dahan
• Colm MacCárthaigh - Workload isolation using shuffle-sharding
• Kevin Hoffman - Documentation-First Event Sourcing with Concordance, wasmCloud, and Event Catalog
• Yan Cui - Hexagonal architecture: the what, why and when?
• Dariusz Gafka - YOLO Message-Driven Architecture
• Domain Driven Design United States - Launch Final

DevOps

• Netflix - Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

Frontend

• Josh Comeau - Making Sense of React Server Components

AI

• Microsoft - Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers
• Jessica Kerr - A Developer’s Starting Point for Integrating with LLMs

Azure

• Tomasz Pęczek - Deploying a Dapr Sidecar to Azure Container Instances
• Microsoft - Introducing a New Flexible Way of Bringing Identities from Any Source into Microsoft Entra ID!

AWS

• AWS - AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling
• Yan Cui - Step Functions: combine Standard and Express workflows for fun & profit

Java

• Heinz M. Kabutz - Virtual Threads and Parallel Streams

JavaScript

• Bun - Bun 1.0 released
• Snyk - Node.js vs. Deno vs. Bun: JavaScript runtime comparison
• Theo - Bun Is Better Than I Hoped

.NET

• João Antunes - Observing .NET microservices with OpenTelemetry - logs, traces and metrics
• FluentDocker - Use docker, docker-compose local and remote in tests and your .NET core/full framework apps via a FluentAPI
• Jimmy Bogard - Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Empty Proxy
• Oren Eini - Not all O(1) operations are considered equal

Rust

• GitHub - Why Rust is the most admired language among developers

Product Design

• Jason Cohen - Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

Coding Life

• Emily Bache - REFACTORING: What You Need To Know | Guided Learning Hour

Management

• Harward Business Review - How to Build a Blameless Work Culture
• Dave Farley - My Response To The NONSENSE McKinsey Article On Developer Productivity
• Dan North - The Worst Programmer I Know
• Kent Beck - Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey, Part 2
• Gergely Orosz - Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey 2
• Dan North - Blink Estimation

Security

• Octa - We're Living in a Passwordless World

4th September 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Event transformations, a tool to keep our processes loosely coupled
• Vivek Juneja - In the shoes of Nick Tune and David Gebhardt to talk about Architecture Modernization
• Software Engineering Radio - Casey Muratori on Clean Code, Horrible Performance?
• Casey Muratori - "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance
• CodeFoo - Casey Muratori is wrong about clean code (but he's also right)

Distributed Systems

• Fabrice Harbulot, Quang Minh Tran - Zero traffic cost for Kafka consumers

Databases

• OnGres - Performance Benchmark Postgresql/MongoDB

Testing

• Nubank - Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suit
• A. Kolsky, S. Bain, M. Guernsey - Redefining Test-Driven Development, Pt. 1

Frontend

• Theo - The Truth About HTMX
• Kevin Mas Ruiz - The conjunction of the web
• ThePrimeTime - The Truth About HTMX

AI

• TechCrunch - OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plan for enterprise customers
• Stephen King - My Books Were Used to Train AI

C++

• Jimmy Hartzell - C++ Papercuts

Go

• The Go Blog - Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2

Java

• Spring - Tackling the OAuth2 Client component model in Spring Security

.NET

• Microsoft - Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement
• Tim Deschryver - Implementing a Feature Flag-based Endpoint Filter
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - .NET 8 AOT Support with Database Access
• Andrew Lock - Form binding in minimal APIs

Python

• Szymon Miks - How to implement CommandBus in Python

WebAssembly

• wasmCloud - Simple, secure, distributed application development using WebAssembly actors and capability providers

Coding Life

• CodeOpinion - How I became a software architect... (or not)
• Jeremy D. Miller - How I started in software development

Management

• McKinsey - Yes, you can measure software developer productivity
• Gergely Orosz - Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
• Kent Beck - Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
• Martin Fowler - CannotMeasureProductivity

Industry

• Oren Eini - The role of GitHub in paying for Open Source Software
• Reuters - Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage
• The Verge - Spotify reportedly has a $38 million white noise problem

28th August 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Prototyping, an underestimated design skill
• .NET Rocks - Minimal Architecture with Jeremy Miller
• Google - Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 4: Build Latency, Predictability, and Developer Productivity
• Troy Hunt - Fighting API Bots with Cloudflare's Invisible Turnstile
• Tomasz Nurkiewicz - Better Call Fallback: Designing resilient services
• Wired - The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
• Trond Hjorteland - Open Sociotechnical Systems Thinking
• Rob Hornby - We’ve gone Backstage — This is how we use it on our Digital Platform
• Kevlin Henney - Gilding the Rose: Refactoring-Driven Development
• Vaughn Vernon - Reactive DDD: Modeling Uncertainty
• Jonas Bonér - Designing Event-first Microservices

Distributed Systems

• WarpStream - A Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of S3

Databases

• Craig Kerstiens - When Did Postgres Become Cool?
• Bowei Chen - Aggregation Placement — An Adaptive Query Optimization for Snowflake

Frontend

• Nolan Lawson - Use web components for what they’re good at

AI

• D. G. Widder, S. West, M. Whittaker - Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI
• OpenAI - GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates

AWS

• AWS - Introducing the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, now in preview

Java

• Piotr Przybył - Don't look at virtual threads, or else...!

.NET

• Chris Woodruff - ASP.NET Web API Workshop
• João Antunes - "Parse, don't validate" and other type safety driven shenanigans (plus a C# wishlist)
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - .NET 8 Interceptors
• Node API for .NET: JavaScript + .NET Interop - Advanced interoperability between .NET and JavaScript in the same process.

Python

• Microsoft - Announcing Python in Excel: Combining the power of Python and the flexibility of Excel.

Coding Life

• Marta Firlej - Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries

Industry

• Reuters - South Korea to toughen punishments for technology leaks in chips, displays
• The Guardian - How can you tell remote work is over? Zoom has ordered employees back to the office
• CNBC - Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate

Security

• Michael Bahr - Your OIDC Deployments From Public Repositories May Be At Risk

21st August 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests
• Natan Silnitsky - Lessons learned from working with 2000 event-driven microservices
• Sofia Tania, Stefania Stefansdottir - Surging cloud and managed services costs outpacing customer growth
• Fred Moyer - Techniques for SLOs and Error Budgets at Scale
• Gojko Adzic - You're Testing WHAT?
• Ying Liang - From use cases to classes: a way of building object model with UML
• Thierry Malanga - EventStorming – Model your business domain as a team

DevOps

• OpenTF - The OpenTF Manifesto

AI

• Yan Cui - Is AWS Bedrock the OpenAI killer?
• ArsTechnica - An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban

AWS

• Renato Losio - Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System

Java

• Microsoft - Introducing Semantic Kernel for Java
• Krzysztof Ślusarski - JVM internals basics - Stop-the-world phase (safepoints) - how it works?

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz, Jeremy D. Miller - Simplify your architecture with Wolverine
• Damien Bod - Securing APIs using ASP.NET Core and OAuth 2.0 DPoP
• On .NET Live with James Hickey - Scheduling & Queuing Background Jobs In .NET With Coravel
• Dennis Frühauff - Best practices for OpenTelemetry in .NET
• Daniel Cazzulino - SponsorLink: feedback and moving forward

Node.js

• SuperTest - Super-agent driven library for testing node.js HTTP servers using a fluent API

Product Design

• Sam McAfee - The “One Big Customer” Trap
• Teresa Torres - Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Thinking
• Sarah Taraporewalla - Creating an integrated business and technology strategy

Management

• Cat Hicks - Sense of Belonging and Software Teams
• Dror Poleg - Remote Is Not Enough

Coding Life

• Hila Fox - How To Become a Go-To Person

Security

• MIT Technology Review - China is escalating its war on kids’ screen time

Trivia

• INNOQ Deutschland mourns the loss of its co-founder and CEO, Stefan Tilkov

14th August 2023

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Architecture

• Gregor Hohpe - Application Architecture as Code
• Cloudflare - Performance isolation in a multi-tenant database environment
• Uber - Announcing Cadence 1.0: The Powerful Workflow Platform Built for Scale and Reliability
• Rebecca Parsons — Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles and Practices
• Ivan Padabed - The Purpose of Architecture
• Sandro Mancuso - Mocking as a Design Tool
• Lexi Mattick & Hack Club - Putting the “You” in CPU
• Greg Young - Event Sourcing and Post/Pre Dated Transactions

Databases

• Elastic - Unveiling Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)
• Streamstone - Event store for Azure Table Storage

AI

• Stack Overflow - Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow

Azure

• Thomas Maurer - Prepare your Azure Cloud Environment with the Cloud Adoption Framework

Java

• Billy Korando - To Java 21 and Beyond!
• A N M Bazlur Rahman - Preparing for JDK 21: A Comprehensive Overview of Key Features and Enhancements
• Marco Codes - How To Approach Dependency Management in Java

.NET

• Sean Killeen - On Moq and our Part in the OSS Sustainability Social Contract
• Jeremy D. Miller - Using Sql Server as a Message Queue with Wolverine
• Aaron Stannard - We're Rewriting Sdkbin
• Andrew Lock - Comparing WebApplication.CreateBuilder() to the new CreateSlimBuilder() method

WebAssembly

• Radu Matei - Towards sockets and networking in WebAssembly and WASI

Coding Life

• Danah Boyd - Deskilling on the Job

Product Design

• Paweł Huryn - MVP: Everything You Need to Know. MVP vs. MMP vs. MLP

Industry

• The Register - Germany to subsidize Intel €10B for 'Silicon Junction' fab
• Reuters - Intel spends $33 billion in Germany in landmark expansion
• HashiCorp - HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
• The Guardian - Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August
• Gizmodo - CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search

Security

• Independent - Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds
• OpenAI - Disabling GPTBot

7th August 2023

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Architecture

• David Whitney - Intentional Code - Minimalism in a World of Dogmatic Design
• Netflix - Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
• Nathaniel Schutta - Should That Be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind
• João Antunes - Enforce conventions (but don't go overboard) with architecture tests

API

• IETF - RFC 9457 - Problem Details for HTTP APIs
• Darshan Shivashankar - Adopting an API Maturity Model to Accelerate Innovation

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - A simple way to configure integration tests pipeline
• Netflix - Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

Frontend

• Luca Mezzalira - Micro-Frontends in AWS

AI

• StackOverflow - Announcing OverflowAI

JVM

• GraalVM - New GraalVM release

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Understanding Endpoints in Wolverine Messaging
• Andre Hofmeister - How to create and manage unit test Test Containers resources (best practices)
• PublicApiGenerator - Project to generate a public API of an assembly or type (useful for semantic versioning)
• Michael Staib - Building modern applications with GraphQL 2023 and beyond in ASP.NET Core 7

TypeScript

• Michael Arnaldi - Introduction to Effect

Hardware

• Tom's Hardware - China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year

Tools

• HyperSwitch - An Open Source Financial Switch to make Payments fast, reliable and affordable

Coding Life

• Naval - You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time
• Kelsey Hightower - Even the best rides come to an end

Management

• Martin Fowler - TwoPizzaTeam

Industry

• It's FOSS - Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi
• TechDirt - Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
• CNBC - Amazon reports blowout profit, beats on sales and issues optimistic guidance

Security

• Microsoft - Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security
• OWASP - OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications
• Nick Frichette - Evading Logging in the Cloud Disrupting and Bypassing AWS CloudTrail

31st July 2023

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Architecture

• Wix - The Great Migration - How We Migrated All of Our Premium Subscriptions
• Werner Vogels - Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
• Yves Reynhout - Trench Talk: Evolving a Model
• Esther Schindler - Guidelines for keeping pace with innovation and tech adoption
• Rodrigo Branas - Hexagonal Architecture (Ports and Adapters) with Alistair Cockburn
• Alistair Cockburn - Hexagonal Architecture ( Ports & Adapters ) The 2023 version slides
• J. B. Rainsberger - How TDD Seems To Go Against Agility

DevOps

• Gregor Hohpe - Cloud Automation à la DDD: From stringly typed to affordances
• Pete Hodgson - How platform teams get stuff done
• Last week in AWS - Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses
• Steampipe - Use SQL to instantly query your cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP and more). Open source CLI. No DB required
• Reddit - Is MyGet gone for good?
• Feedz.io - Package Hosting and Distribution

Frontend

• Dave Rupert - If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
• Rob Eisenberg - A Few DOM Reminders
• Dan Abramov - Leaving Facebook thread

API

• Insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC

AI

• AWS - Generative AI with Large Language Models (Free Course)

Data Science

• Gin Bai - Unveiling the Benefits of Causal Inference in Measuring Advertisement Impact

AWS

• AWS - Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS

JVM

• Ionut Balosin - Analyzing JVM Energy Consumption for JDK 17: An Empirical Study

Kotlin

• JetBrains - Kotlin 1.9.0 Released

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - How to scale out Marten
• James Newton-King - ASP.NET Core Grafana dashboards
• Joshua Jesper Krægpøth Ryder - The Future Is Here! WebAssembly for .NET Developers
• Tim Deschryver - Entity framework features I wish I knew earlier
• Peter Ritchie - ETags in ASP.NET Core

Coding Life

• Linus Åkesson - A case against syntax highlighting
• Being Human Podcast - Leaving Facebook - Kent Beck

Management

• Phil Calçado - Attention is All A Manager Needs

Industry

• Michelle Coventry - Compensation Decoded: Tech leader salaries at early-stage startups
• CNBC - Microsoft shares dip after quarterly revenue guidance misses expectations

Trivia

• Heather Downing - Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success

24th July 2023

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Architecture

• Yelp - Rebuilding a Cassandra cluster using Yelp’s Data Pipeline
• LinkedIn - LinkedIn Integrates Protocol Buffers With Rest.li for Improved Microservices Performance
• A. Streets, K. Dziublinski, A. Harmel-Law - Decentralizing the Practice of Architecture at Xapo Bank
• George Fairbanks - Intellectual control
• Yan Cui - “Even simple serverless applications have complex architecture diagrams”, so what?
• Mathias Verraes, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - Surfacing Worldviews in Design

DevOps

• InfoQ - DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – July 2023
• Andrew Clay Shafer - More Buzzwords Won't Help: The Long History of DevOps Failures

Databases

• The Hanselminutes Podcast - All the Performance with RavenDB's Oren Eini

Frontend

• Mike Pearson - Signals make Angular MUCH easier
• Matan Borenkraout - Testing Library: everybody uses it, but nobody understands it

AI

• Meta AI - Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
• Fortune - Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds

Azure

• Tomasz Pęczek - DevOps Practices for Azure Infrastructure - Continuous Delivery & Continuous Deployment

Java

• Micronaut - Micronaut Framework 4.0.0 Released!

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - How to set global setting for XUnit tests
• Jeremy D. Miller - A-Frame Architecture with Wolverine
• Thomas Heijtink - CancellationTokens 2.0
• Johnny Hooyberghs - Building a Game with .NET and Orleans
• grate - SQL scripts migration runner

WebAssembly

• Edoardo Vacchi - WebAssembly from the inside out

Coding Life

• Paul Graham - How to Do Great Work

Management

• Aleix Morgadas - Interim Platform Team
• New Relic - Thoughts About Mob Programming From a Manager’s Perspective

Product Design

• Domagoj Pavlešić - Sessionize: From idea to 100.000 speakers, and beyond!

Industry

• CNN Bussiness - ‘Time is money’: Shopify calculator shows how much unnecessary meetings really cost the company
• The Deep Dive - Shopify Employee Breaks NDA To Reveal Firm Quietly Replacing Laid Off Workers With AI

Trivia

• The Washington Post - Kevin Mitnick, hacker and fugitive turned security consultant, dies at 59
• Werner Vogels - A few words on taking notes
• Paul Graham - How to Do Great Work

17th July 2023

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Architecture

• .NET Rocks - Scaling a Monolith with Derek Comartin
• Vlad Khononov - Balancing Coupling in Software Design
• Mark Seemann - Validation and business rules
• Bobby Calderwood, Confluent - Practical Event Modeling Course
• Julia Evans - nginx playground

DevOps

• OrbStack - Fast, light, simple Docker containers & Linux machines for macOS

Database

• Developer Voices - The Evolution of Databases and the Future of Database Technology (with Ben Stopford)

Frontend

• Theo - t3․gg - From 0 to prod for $0 (Next.js, tRPC, TypeScript, Tailwind, Prisma & More)

AI

• GPT Engineer - Specify what you want it to build, the AI asks for clarification, and then builds it
• MIT Technology Review - ChatGPT can turn bad writers into better ones

AWS

• AJ Stuyvenberg - Understanding AWS Lambda Proactive Initialization
• Yan Cui - A self-healing Lambda function that adapts its throughput based on performance

Java

• Chris Seaton - Ten Things You Can Do With GraalVM
• Andrzej Ludwikowski - Introducing Kalix Workflow Component

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - How to create a Docker image for the Marten application
• Matthew MacDonald - Introducing C#12's Future Features
• David Fowler - A sample showing how to setup ASP.NET Core Identity API endpoints for authentication
• Amadeusz Sadowski - A list of C# Source Generators (not necessarily awesome) and associated resources: articles, talks, demos.
• Nobuaki Tanaka - Managed Doom - A Doom port written in C Sharp

Coding Life

• Justin Searls - The looming demise of the 10x developer
• Jason Lengstorf - Clean as you go
• Dennis Doomen - What you can learn from an open-source project with 250 million downloads

Management

• Emily Nakashima - On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP
• John Cutler - TBM 231: Productivity (The Clash)

Industry

• The Verge - Evernote has laid off most of its US staff and will move most operations to Europe
• AI News - Databricks acquires LLM pioneer MosaicML for $1.3B
• The Washington Post - ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

Security

• Microsoft Security - Analysis of Storm-0558 techniques for unauthorized email access

Trivia

• PC Magazine - Thumbs-Up Emoji Is Valid as a Signature in Contracts, Canadian Court Says

10th July 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Facts and Myths about CQRS
• Udi Dahan - CQRS pitfalls and patterns
• Derek Comartin - Building a system that Junior Developers can be productive in
• LinkedIn - Upscaling LinkedIn's Profile Datastore While Reducing Costs
• Gradle - How Gradle cut AWS storage costs by 75% using S3
• Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Alan McKean - Object Design. Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations
• Aardling - Video Tutorial: A Deep Dive into Domain Modelling
• Uwe Friedrichsen - Let’s (not) break up the monolith - Part 1
• Mihir Sathe - Load Balancing: A Counterintuitive Improvement to the Best-of-K Algorithm

DevOps

• Tamás Sallai - How to provide information about the backend environment to frontend clients

AI

• OpenAI - GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API
• Google - Announcing the first Machine Unlearning Challenge
• Duolingo - How Duolingo uses AI to create lessons faster
• Vice - Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People's Brain Activity
• Gizmodo - The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook

JavaScript

• JavaScript Mastery - Next.js 13 Full Course 2023
• Codevolution - Next.js Tutorial for Beginners
• Astro - The all-in-one web framework designed for speed
• Addy Osmani - The Cost Of JavaScript - 2023
• Damien Guard - Email form sender with Nuxt3, Cloudflare, Brevo & reCAPTCHA

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Vertical Slices in practice
• Tim Deschryver - Treat your .NET Minimal API Endpoint as the application layer
• Evolve - Database migration tool for .NET and .NET Core projects. Inspired by Flyway
• AWS - Introducing the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB (Preview)
• Nick Chapsas - JetBrains Rider Gets a ChatGPT-like AI Assistant!

WebAssembly

• Dan Gohman - The World of WASI
• The Linux Foundation - How WASI Makes Containerization More Efficient

Coding Life

• J. B. Rainsberger - Not Only X, But Also Y

Industry

• TechRadar - Intel is biggest loser as cloud giant splashes billions of dollars on rivals
• Mastodon - What to know about Threads
• Gergely Orosz - Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling
• Apple Insider - Goldman Sachs may be trying to get out of its Apple Card deal

Security

• Termageddon - Usage of Google Fonts violates GDPR

3rd July 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Follow the money to get a better design
• Mark Schwartz - Should You Prioritize?
• Mark Seemann - When is an implementation detail an implementation detail?
• Jeremy Miller - A Contrarian View of Software Architecture
• Mikael Vesavuori - Designing a Next-Level EventCatalog Setup for Event-Driven Architectures
• Dave Anderson - The Amazon Working Backward Process for Engineering
• Dave Gray - Pre-Mortem
• Mauro Servienti - What if my command was rejected?
• Damian Płaza - Concept maps

DevOps

• Ken Scambler - Replatform in a Year or Die: The Tale of a Turnaround
• Dave Farley - Don’t Get Caught In The Platform Engineering Hype

Databases

• MongoDB - Introducing Atlas Stream Processing - Simplifying the Path to Reactive, Responsive, Event-Driven Apps
• Tom Asel - Wardley Maps and Graphdatabases

Frontend

• Nicholas Ray - 300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's Total Blocking Time

AI

• Databricks - Introducing English as the New Programming Language for Apache Spark

Java

• David Vlijmincx - Introduction and pitfalls of Java's new concurrency model
• Bruno Borges - Secrets of Performance Tuning Java on Kubernetes

.NET

• Daniel Marbach - Performance tricks I learned from contributing to open source .NET packages
• Steven Sanderson - Experiments with the new WASI workload in .NET 8 Preview 4
• Hamilton - The State of F#
• pgvector-dotnet - pgvector support for C#

TypeScript

• InfoWorld - Microsoft’s DeviceScript brings TypeScript to IoT

WebAssembly

• Peter Malmgren - Getting data in and out of WASI modules

Industry

• Andy Baio - Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour"
• The Guardian - Twitter applies reading limit after users report issues with platform

Security

• Darcy Clarke - The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem

Trivia

• The NewStack - Programmer Fired for Automating Job, Playing Games At Work for Six Years

26th June 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Removability over Maintainability
• Aaron Stannard - High Optionality Programming: Architectural Choices That Mitigate Technical Debt
• Kim Waldén - Reversibility in software engineering
• Simon Brown - Risk Storming
• InfoQ - The Evolution of Evolutionary Architecture with Rebecca Parsons
• Andrew Ayer - The Story Behind Last Week's Let's Encrypt Downtime
• Mihir Sathe - Load Balancing: The Intuition Behind the Power of Two Random Choices
• Gergely Orosz - Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects
• Avanscoperta - Team Topologies: A chat with Manuel Pais and Alberto Brandolini
• Robert Virding, Francesco Cesarini - Concurrency Oriented Programming in a Modern World

DevOps

• Johnson Okorie - Running Kafka in Kubernetes, Part 1: Why we migrated our Kafka clusters to Kubernetes
• Nigel Poulton - WebAssembly on Kubernetes: everything you need to know

Distributed Systems

• Danica Fine - A Kafka Client’s Request: There and Back Again

Frontend

• angular-auth-oidc-client - Angular Lib for OpenID Connect & OAuth2

AI

• Microsoft - Introducing Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data in Public Preview
• GitHub - How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases

AWS

• Be a Better Dev - AWS SQS vs SNS vs Eventbridge – When to Use What?

Go

• Ben E. C. Boyter - How to start a Go project in 2023

Java

• Otavio Santana - Exploring Java Records beyond Data Transfer Objects

.NET

• GRPC-Mock-Server - Super fast, platform independent, standalone component for mocking GRPC services using WireMock.NET stubbing engine
• KafkaFlow - .NET framework to create Kafka based applications, simple to use and extend.
• LLamaSharp - .NET Binding for llama.cpp
• Jeremy D. Miller - Critter Stack Multi-Tenancy

Coding Life

• Nick Tune, Mike Rozinsky & Dan Young - Designing and Facilitating Better Workshops
• Nat Bennett - What was special about Pivotal?
• Just Josh - Best Laptop for Programming in 2023: ULTIMATE Guide

Management

• Jade Rubick - A detailed look at FAST agile -- a practice well worth your time
• HR Brew - HubSpot says remote employees are more engaged, just as productive

Industry

• Time - OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation
• The Register - After giving us .zip, Google Domains to shut down, will be flogged off to Squarespace

Security

• Microsoft - IoT devices and Linux-based systems targeted by OpenSSH trojan campaign

19th June 2023

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Architecture

• StackOverflow - 2023 Developer Survey results
• Matthew Foster - Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams
• Mark Seemann - On doing katas
• William Brander - Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever
• Eduardo da Silva - Sociotechnical Architecture: co-designing technical & organizational architecture to maximize impact
• Confluent - Kafka Summit Videos
• EDA Summit - Videos
• Peter Ritchie - HTTP and ETag Header Fields

DevOps

• Jan Kammerath - How Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You Fired

Databases

• The NewStack - Vector Search Is Coming to Apache Cassandra
• Workable Tech Blog - Postgres — Live Table Partitioning

AI

• Center for AI Safety - Statement on AI Risk
• Technomancers.ai - Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training
• AutoTrain - A no-code tool for training state-of-the-art models for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, for Computer Vision (CV) tasks, and for Speech tasks and even for Tabular tasks.
• Humanloop - OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman

AWS

• Justin Pirtle - Scalable serverless event-driven architectures with SNS, SQS & Lambda

Azure

• Microsoft - Announcing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Java

• Brian Goetz - Design document on nullability and value types

JavaScript

• The Cloudflare - A Community Group for Web-interoperable JavaScript runtimes
• Code with Hugo - Mocking/stubbing the current Date in Jest tests
• Josh Goldberg - Configuring ESLint, Prettier, and TypeScript Together

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Wolverine 1.0 is Out!
• Rachel Appel - Blazor Essentials
• Chris Klug - Introduction to Actor-based Development with Project Orleans
• Stefan Pölz - Let's Code an incremental source generator with Roslyn

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Recap of Event Sourcing Live 2023

Management

• Harvard Business Review - Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous
• Dan North - Why Agile Doesn't Scale & What You Can Do About It

Security

• Vittorio Bertocci - Signing Out and Session Management in 2023

Trivia

• Programmers are also human - Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023

12th June 2023

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Architecture

• Matt Boyle - Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages
• The NewStack - API Management Is a Commodity: What’s Next?
• Cat Swetel - Democratizing Strategy: An Intro to Wardley Maps
• Nick Tune - EventStorming Modelling Tips to Facilitate Microservice Design
• Sebastian Gebski - Unicorn's baby steps: what should you know as a 1st-time startup CTO
• Olena Kutsenko - Using Apache Kafka and OpenSearch to explore Mastodon
• InfoQ - Eric Evans Interviews Greg Young on the Architecture of a Large Transaction System

Database

• Hans-Jürgen Schönig - PostgreSQL performance tips you have never seen before

AI

• Google - Generative AI learning path
• LocalAI - Self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI-compatible API. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running LLMs on consumer-grade hardware.

Testing

• Ted M. Young - I'm Done with Unit and Integration Tests
• Mathias Verraes - EventSourcing Testing Patterns

AWS

• Yan Cui - Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls really so bad?
• Marc Brooker - Container Loading in AWS Lambda
• M. Brooker, M. Danilov, C. Greenwood, P. Piwonka - On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda

JavaScript

• Fly.io Blog - The JavaScript Ecosystem Is Delightfully Weird

JVM

• Graeme Rocher - Micronaut 3 & GraalVM Deep Dive

.NET

• Cecil Phillip - Building payment flows with Stripe and Azure
• Andrew Lock - Using Octokit.GraphQL to interact with the GitHub discussions API
• Jeremy D. Miller - I’m doing it my way. Finally. God help me.
• Isaac Levin - Doing More with SSR Blazor in .NET 8

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - A few words on communication
• Dan North - Seek First to Understand
• Dave Farley - Rockstar Developers Are THE WORST Developers
• Monday Morning Data Chat - The Art of Developer Relations w/ Tim Berglund
• Sam Aaron - Sonic Pi - BEAM Up The VJ!

Management

• A. Noda, M. Storey, N. Forsgren, M. Greiler - DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity
• Ron Jeffries - Developers Should Abandon Agile

Industry

• Bloomberg - Scaling the Practice of Architecture, ConversationallySEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking Securities Rules
• The Verge - Google Wallet is getting custom cards and state IDs this month

Security

• CSO - ChatGPT creates mutating malware that evades detection by EDR

5th June 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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