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