Architecture Weekly #55 - 27th December 2021

Welcome to the new week!

Weather can be surprising. Those were the first snowy Christmas since “I-don’t-know-when”. It was so hot in the last few years that you could even try to predict that there won’t be real winter anymore. And here we go, minus twenty Celcius degrees. Also, in software development, predicting trends is more a guessing game than educated considerations. Our industry is getting every few years new buzzwords. Some of them stick, some evolve, and some vanish. Blockchain, Web3, Ethereum, etc., have been on top in recent years. Are they a scam or the real thing? I’m closer to stating the former, but I’m not enough into it. Usually, I wait a bit till the dust falls off. I provided you with a few links from the more thoughtful people than me taking consideration around it:

• Nicholas Weaver - The Web3 Fraud

• Mark Burgess - Blockchain Technology and its Applications A Promise Theory view

• Tim O’Reilly - Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3

Btw did you know that Minecraft is Turing Complete?
Trivia

• PCWorld - This 8-bit processor built in Minecraft can run its own games

I encourage you to read also other articles!

Architecture

• Mark Burgess - Promise Theory. Principles and Applications

• DotNext - Q&A with Udi Dahan

• Nik Begley - How Google, Twitter, and Spotify built a culture of documentation

• Mathias Verraes, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - Models and Metaphors

Distributed Systems

• The Netflix Blog - Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

• AWS Architecture Blog - Overview of Data Transfer Costs for Common Architectures

• Pierre Cavalet - Build a personalized newsletter with AWS cloud services and ElasticSearch

DevOps

• Ari Briegman - DevOps Exercises

Hardware

• Michael Yuan - Performance Analysis for Arm vs x86 CPUs in the Cloud

Low Level

• Cliff Click - Coffee Compiler Club

Tools

• Mary Branscombe - How to visualise security and threat information in Microsoft Power BI

• VisiData - Data exploration at your fingertips

.NET

• Vitalii Braslavskyi - Building a Flexible Deployment System for Grammarly for Windows using F# and AWS Lambda

• Rebin Qadir - gRPC client-side load balancing in .NET

• Christian Zink - How to Scale an ASP.NET Core Microservice and Sharded Database. Load Test with JMeter

• Oleg Kyrylchuk - EF Core 6.0 new features (Twitter Thread)

Coding Life

• Ken Kousen - Help Your Boss Help You. Convert Conflict Into Opportunities

Management

• Amy Diehl - When People Assume You’re Not In Charge Because You’re a Woman

• Amy Edmondson - How to turn a group of strangers into a team

Industry

• Nicholas Weaver - The Web3 Fraud

• Mark Burgess - Blockchain Technology and its Applications A Promise Theory view

• Tim O’Reilly - Why it’s too early to get excited about Web3

Security

• Victor Grenu - The day when the AWS Support got access to your S3 data (Twitter thread)

Trivia

• PCWorld - This 8-bit processor built in Minecraft can run its own games

• ArsTechnica - A grim milestone: I maxed out the number of spammy addresses Gmail can block

Happy reading and wish you a wonderful week!

Cheers!

Oskar