Architecture Weekly #56 - 3rd January 2022

Welcome to the new year!

It is the time when we're making summaries of the last year and new year's resolutions. Or at least some people and companies do. I prefer to focus on continuous improvement rather than a specific date to change habits. Still, that's a decent opportunity to make a summary and learn from it. An excellent one is a 2021 GitHub summary: The State of the Octoverse 2021

Check also What’s new in serverless by Talia Nassi.

If you want to learn something new, e.g. on DevOps, a worthy resource is Microsoft - DevOps Dojo.

Still, don’t be too ambitious. As Jared A. Brock stated: No, You Don’t Have to Wake Up at 5 AM in Order to Be Wildly Successful

Check also other articles!

Have a great, healthy year!

Architecture

• Derek Comartin - CRUD API + Complexity = Death by a 1000 Papercuts

• GitHub - The State of the Octoverse 2021

• Mauro Servienti - Is it complex? Break it down!

• Rinat Abdullin - Problem-driven design

• Aaron Stannard - Professional Open Source: Extend-Only Design

• Bartosz Ocytko - Driving change: why are your ideas being rejected?

Distributed Systems

• Talia Nassi - What’s new in serverless

DevOps

• Microsoft - DevOps Dojo

• The Register - Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend

• Nick Janetakis - Reclaim Tons of Disk Space by Compacting Your Docker Desktop WSL 2 VM

Databases

• Vlad Mihalcea - Single-Primary Database Replication

• Daniel Meyer - A client side, offline-first, reactive database for JavaScript Applications

• Google Cloud Platform - El Carro - a new project that offers a way to run Oracle databases in Kubernetes

Low level

• Jordan Mechner - Prince of Persia Apple II Source Codes

Tools

• Backstage - An open platform for building developer portals

.NET

• Dave Brock - Low Ceremony, High Value: A Tour of Minimal APIs in .NET 6

• Spectre.Console - A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.

• Yoshifumi Kawai - Minimal API for CommandLine tool by ConsoleAppFramework v4

• Jimmy Byrd - FsOpenTelemetry is a single file you can copy paste or add through Paket Github dependencies to provide your F# library with safe helpers for Activity and ActivitySource.

Coding Life

• Dan Lines - The Pull Request Paradox: Merge Faster by Promoting Your PR

• Austin Z. Henley - A theory of how developers seek information

Management

• Niels Pflaeging - Org Physics: The 3 faces of every company

Security

• Joseph Roosen - Microsoft Exchange New Year's issue (Twitter Thread)

• Davide M. Parrilli - Cookie consent is (still) broken

Trivia

• Wired - How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell

• Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

• Which Face Is Real? - Seeing through the illusions of a fabricated world

• Jared A. Brock - No, You Don’t Have to Wake Up at 5 AM in Order to Be Wildly Successful