#7 - 25th January 2021

Architecture

• Hugo Rocha - The Perils of Event-Driven: Eventual Consistency

• Savvas Kleanthous - Event immutability and dealing with change

• Steven Van Beelen - Intro to Event-Driven Microservices using DDD, CQRS & Event sourcing

Distibuted Systems

• CloudFlare Blog - A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web

• Slack - Final Slack Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Report - 2020-01-14

• Google Cloud Blog - Mete Atamel

• Heidi Howard - Distributed Consensus: Making Impossible Possible

• Facebook Research - Virtual Consensus in Delos

• Saba Khalilnaji and Ashwin Kachhara - Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka Without Downtime

• M.J. Fisher, N.A. Lynch, M.S. Paterson - Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process

• Martin Kleppmann - How to do distributed locking

• Szymon Pobiega, Tomasz Masternak - Side Effects

Databases

• CockroachDB - How Amazon Aurora Works

Devops

• Cezary Piątek - Github Actions for Visual Studio Extension developers

Frontend

• Netlify - Building an Event Registration Page with Composition API and Serverless Functions

.NET

• Adam Ralph - Evolution of a toolchain by Adam Ralph

• Konrad Kokosa - .NET GC Internals mini-series

OpenTelemetry in .NET

• OpenTelemetry official site

• Building End-to-End Diagnostics and Tracing

• A Lap Around ActivitySource and ActivityListener in .NET 5

• Increasing Trace Cardinality with Activity Tags and Baggage

• OpenTelemetry specification

• OpenTelemetry .NET SDK progress

• Use new Activity to Replace OT Span

• OpenTelemetry .NET

• Comparing OpenTelemetry Trace API and .NET Activity API

• Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps

• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability

• Deep Dive into Open Telemetry for .NET

• OpenTelemetry: Future-Proofing Your Instrumentation

• Improve Activity API usability and OpenTelemetry integration

Java

• Piotr Przybył - Java Records for the Intrigued

Low Level

• InfoQ - Rust Hyper HTTP Library Will Contribute to Make Curl Safer

Coding Life

• Ryan Singer - Shape Up

Industry

• TechCrunch - WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulators

ElasticSearch Licence change

• Elastic - Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing

• AWS - Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch

• Drew DeVault - Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic

• Logz.io - Truly Doubling Down on Open Source

• Grafana - Everything You Need to Know About the OSS Licensing War, Part 3.

• Protocol - Does MongoDB regret offending the open-source community? Not one bit.

• Corey Quinn - How to Compete with AWS

Trivia

• Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute - VoterFraud2020 - a multi-modal Twitter dataset with and retweets that includes key phrases and hashtags related to voter fraud claims between October 23rd and December 16th

• Coding Horror - Mort, Elvis, Einstein, and You

• CNBC - UK hospitals are using blockchain to track the temperature of coronavirus vaccines

• Dave's Garage - Secret History of Windows Task Manager - Part 1 - Origins

• BBC News - How Covid turbocharged the QR revolution