Architecture Weekly #61 - 7th February 2022

Welcome to the new week!

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Architecture Weekly is a decent tool to learn about trends, approaches and thoughts. Still, there’s always a time when we need to let the code speak for us. To do it efficiently, we need to have other tools. This week tooling section is a handful of them. Check, e.g.:

• DevToys - Swiss Army knife for developers

• Learn Vim - Learn Vim right within VSCode. Use this extension to learn and practice your Vim skills.

Exiting Vim may be complex, but still, it’s simpler than enterprise projects. Taming these beasts is not an easy task to do. Gregor Hohpe wrote that “it’s almost like enterprise IT is subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which concludes that the entropy in an (isolated) system can never decrease - at best it can be constant, but usually it increases.”. Read more why:

• Gregor Hohpe - Here’s why enterprise IT is so complex

Transparency and observability are keys to making processes and projects more approachable. See more in the webinar recording:

• Jessica Kerr, Matthew Skeleton - Observability in Sociotechnical Systems: How to Use Telemetry Data to Inform Software and Org Design

Don’t also miss the emergency of the Web Assembly. It’s not only a fancy frontend thing:

• The State of WebAssembly - 2021/2022

Check also the rest of the links, and have a great week!

Cheers!
Oskar

Architecture

• Udi Dahan - Race Conditions Don't Exist

• Gregor Hohpe - Here’s why enterprise IT is so complex

• Jessica Kerr, Matthew Skeleton - Observability in Sociotechnical Systems: How to Use Telemetry Data to Inform Software and Org Design

• The Hanselminutes podcast - New Ways to Teach Computer Science with Maria Naggaga

• Michał 'Chlebik' Piotrowski - GC Theory

• Callum Linington - My Current Architecture

Distributed Systems

• Micro - A distributed cloud operating system

DevOps

• conventional-changelog - Generate changelogs and release notes from a project’s commit messages and metadata

Databases

• Syed Sadat Nazrul - CAP Theorem and Distributed Database Management Systems

• Martin Kleppmann - Please stop calling databases CP or AP

• Canonical - Dqlite - Embeddable, replicated and fault tolerant SQL engine

• Emily Shea - Refactoring to single-table design in Amazon DynamoDB

Frontend

• Microsoft - Monaco Editor - The code editor that powers VS Code

WebAssembly

• The State of WebAssembly - 2021/2022

• Pay Attention to WebAssembly

JVM

• Occurrent - Event Sourcing Utilities for the JVM

.NET

• Wouter Huysentruit - CashFlow - Application for managing cash flows written in ASP.NET Core 6 and Angular 13 (EF Core, Apollo, GraphQL, CQRS)

• 6 .NET Myths Dispelled — Celebrating 21 Years of .NET

• Jason Bock - AutoDeconstruct - A library that automatically adds support for object deconstruction in C#

• Jeremy D. Miller - Batch Querying with Marten

Rust

• Arisey Hun - Event Sourcing in Rust

Tools

• DevToys - Swiss Army knife for developers

• Postman - Postman Now Supports gRPC

• Learn Vim - Learn Vim right within VSCode. Use this extension to learn and practice your Vim skills.

• David Peter - Bat - A cat(1) clone with wings

Industry

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