Welcome to the new week!

Christmas and the New Year are getting closer. It's an excellent time to rethink where we are and where we'd like to be. Work is an essential aspect of our life. It's worth making sure that we're working in a safe environment.

Quite often, we try to be the loyal person at all costs, forgetting that it's "just" a business in the end. Sometimes you have two options: change the job, or change the job. I'm not encouraging you to do that, but it's always worth making sure that we have health priorities, and we're in the place where we want to be. If you are thinking about checking if the neighbour's lawn is greener than yours, have a read:

• Gergely Orosz - Preparing for the Systems Design and Coding Interview

• Scott Carey - The 18 highest paying developer roles in 2021

Ensure also that you or your systems are not impacted by the latest Log4J Exploit:

• Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package

• YfryTchsGD - Log4j Attack Surface

…and check also the rest of the articles!

Architecture

• Mathias Verraes - Form, Command, and Model Validation

• Weronika Łabaj - What Starbucks can teach us about software scalability

• Scott Carey - Complexity is killing software developers

• Lee Atchison - A cure for complexity in software development

• Ruth Malan - A Trace in Sand

Distributed Systems

• DCD - AWS us-east-1 outage brings down services around the world

• Apache Kafka Blog - Apache Kafka Supports 200K Partitions Per Cluster

• KEDA - Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling

• Google Cloud - Shopify engineers deliver on peak performance during Black Friday Cyber Monday 2021

• Upstash - Upstash Launches Serverless Kafka

Industry

• AWS - Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider

Azure

• Azure Blog - Introducing Azure Load Testing: Optimize app performance at scale

Go

• Swaggo - swag - Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0 for Go

Java

• Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package

• YfryTchsGD - Log4j Attack Surface

.NET

• Clifford Agius - Connect an ESP32 To Azure IoT Hub with NanoFramework using DotNet and C#

• Jeffrey T. Fritz - Completed samples from my session with Scott Hunter discussing the Minimal Approach to .NET 6

• .NET Blog - What’s new for gRPC in .NET 6

• Microsoft - Fast Blazor - A lightweight wrapper around Microsoft's official FluentUI Web Components for use with .NET 6.0 Razor views.

• Damien Guard - Migrating from OpenTracing.NET to OpenTelemetry.NET

TypeScript

• Marcin Dziewulski - ts_belt - Fast, modern, and practical utility library for FP in TypeScript

Edge Computing

• Discourse - Discourse on a Raspberry Pi

Security

• David Neal - An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect

Industry

• CNBC - Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees

Coding Life

• Gergely Orosz - Preparing for the Systems Design and Coding Interview

• Scott Carey - The 18 highest paying developer roles in 2021

Management

• Dorian Taylor - Agile as Trauma

Trivia

• Ed Batista - Doing the Work (Reflection, Journaling, Dialogue)

Happy reading and wish you a wonderful week!

Cheers!

Oskar