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:

• Troy Hunt - How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs

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:

• Nick Tune - From Consultant to Facilitator

If you like buzzwords, like quantum computing, GraphQL, etc, check those materials:

• Damian Widera - Quantum Computing Explained With Demos!

• InfoQ - GraphQL Reference Guide: Building Flexible and Understandable APIs

Don’t also miss other articles. They’re also worthy!

Cheers!
Oskar

Architecture

• Troy Hunt - How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs

• Nick Tune - From Consultant to Facilitator

• Natalie Rothfels, Karen Sun - Why Engineers Should Invest in Decision-Making Skills Early

Distributed Systems

• Airhacks.fm with Gunnnar Morling - Kafka Connect CLI, JFR Unit, OSS Archetypes and JPMS

Databases

• Pavel "Xemul" Emelyanov - The Taming of the B-Trees

• GitHub - Trilogy is a client library for MySQL-compatible database servers, designed for performance, flexibility, and ease of embedding

• Aaron Francis - Efficient Pagination Using Deferred Joins

• Damian Widera - Quantum Computing Explained With Demos!

API

• Matthew Reinbold - 5 Tips for a Game-Changing API Design Review

• InfoQ - GraphQL Reference Guide: Building Flexible and Understandable APIs

Frontend

• Angular - Discontinued Long Term Support for AngularJS

.NET

• Gérald Barré - Custom certificate validation in .NET

• Andrey Akinshin - Posts about Research: P² quantile estimator

• Andrew Lock - Series: Creating a source generator

• F# - FSharp.UMX - F# units of measure for primitive non-numeric types

Coding Life

• Ela Mościcka - Questions to ask in a job interview

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

Coding Life

• Wikipedia - Merkle Tree

Management

• Aleix Morgadas - Designing an Engineering Strategy. Part I

Industry

• Wired - Europe's Move Against Google Analytics Is Just the Beginning

Trivia

• Jonathan Jarry - The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real

• David Ebbo - Solving Wordle from 'spoiler free' tweets