Architecture Weekly #59 - 24th January 2022
Welcome to the new week!
My running joke is that if you have an issue and fix it using the cache, you now have two issues. That recently hit Troy Hunt. If you’re into FinOps or cost optimisation, you should definitely have a look:
FinOps is one of the top buzzwords now. Cloud providers pricing rules are so tricky that you inevitably need to hire someone who knows that by heart. It’s also a decent consultancy direction to choose if you’re into the cloud and financial calculations. Nick Tune wrote an insightful article about the consultancy journey:
If you like buzzwords, like quantum computing, GraphQL, etc, check those materials:
Don’t also miss other articles. They’re also worthy!
Cheers!
Oskar
Architecture
Distributed Systems
Databases
API
Matthew Reinbold - 5 Tips for a Game-Changing API Design Review
InfoQ - GraphQL Reference Guide: Building Flexible and Understandable APIs
Frontend
.NET
Andrey Akinshin - Posts about Research: P² quantile estimator
F# - FSharp.UMX - F# units of measure for primitive non-numeric types
Coding Life
Tools
Etienne Baudoux - DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers on Windows 11
FullStory - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers