#41 - 20th September 2021

Architecture

• Pat Helland - Escaping the Singularity

• M. Verraes and R. Wirfs-Brock - Design and Reality

Distributed Systems

• M. Kleppmann, A.R. Beresford, B.S. - Online Event Processing. Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed

• Lightbend - Akka gRPC update delivers 1200% performance improvement (so what happened?)

• AWS - Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors

Databases

• Gregory Young - How an EventStore actually works

• Jon Gjengset - Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database

• Krithika Balagurunathan - 4 Reasons Why Your Database Should Be Multiregion

• Percona - BRIN Index for PostgreSQL: Don’t Forget the Benefits

• Postgres - Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

• Fundación PostgreSQL - Postgres Core Team launches unprecedented attack against the Postgres Community

Testing

• Carissa Blossom - User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation

Frontend

• Li Yinlong (Leon) - Micro Frontends - Open a New Frontend Development Experience

• Stack - A presentation library with intuitive, scroll-based navigation

.NET

• David Fowler - Minimal APIs at a glance

• David Fowler - Migration to ASP.NET Core in .NET 6

• Harry McIntyre - ValueOf - Deal with Primitive Obsession - define ValueObjects in a single line (of C#)

• Andrew Lock - StronglyTypedId - A Rosyln-powered generator for strongly-typed IDs

• Ankit Vijay - Gotchas with switch expression

• Davide Bellone - How to customize fields generation in Visual Studio 2019

Security

• WIZ - OMIGOD: Critical Vulnerabilities in OMI Affecting Countless Azure Customers

• A. Zelivansky, Y. Avrahami - What You Need to Know About Azurescape

• OWASP - Session Management Cheat Sheet

• Data Breach Today - Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets From Public Repositories

Trivia

• Vaidehi Joshi - Reflections on Burnout

• The Register - Ballmer: 'Linux is a cancer'