Architecture Weekly #62 - 14th February 2022

Welcome to the new week!

Here comes my love letter! 💘 It seems that the EU, has much less positive feelings around cookies, tracking and other invigilations we’re getting in social media and site providers. Austria already claimed that Google Analytics cloud transfers are illegal. Now that’s expanding. Facebook is claiming, that they may drop Europe if the legal will be expanding. This is slowly looking like a war preparation. I think that in the end there will be a compromise because all parties are interested in money, but currently, it’s unclear how that ends. If we add that companies are also fighting with each other, e.g. Safari blocking by default site tracking. It’s clear for me that’s not because of the users, but to target Google Analytics. They’ll be still tracking what you do via browser/iPhone mechanisms, just not allowing you to do that to others. Read more:

• Irish Council for Civil Liberties - GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

• City A.M. - Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers

Cryptocurrencies, NFTs etc. are also getting (justified IMHO) backslash. You can read why with the curated list:

• Rufus Pollock - Awesome critique of crypto/web3

Leslie Lamport is one of my heroes. He did so much work to explain distributed systems, fault-tolerance, etc. that’s hard to put into a single sentence. I found recently that he shared materials on his modelling framework for threat analysis. Don’t let the page look’n’feel mistake you,

• Leslie Lamport - Learning TLA+

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

Cheers!
Oskar

Architecture

• Leslie Lamport - Learning TLA+

• Asbjørn Ulsberg - What's In A Model?

• Jan Kronquist - Don't publish Domain Events, return them!

• Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski - Story 2: Call it microservices…or distributed modules?

Distributed Systems

• Testing Microservices: How to Share Staging Environments without Tripping Over Each Other

DevOps

• Carl Nygard - Compliance in a DevOps Culture

FrontEnd

• Flutter - Announcing Flutter for Windows

Testing

• Microsoft Engineering Blog - Improving developer productivity via flaky test management

Java

• Sameer Kulkarni - How to configure Dependabot with Gradle

• Java - JEP 359: Records

• Java - JEP 405: Record Patterns

• Java - JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch

.NET

• Julio Casal - .NET Microservices Basics Course

• Mark Rendle - My 20 Years with .NET

• Andrew Lock - NetEscapades.EnumGenerators: a source generator for enum performance

• Microsoft Docs - Tutorial: Use feature flags in an ASP.NET Core app

Rust

• Amos Wenger - Some mistakes Rust doesn't catch

TypeScript

• Matthew Swensen - Mastering mapped types in TypeScript

Coding Life

• Dodgy Coder - "Yoda Conditions", "Pokémon Exception Handling" and other programming classics

• Szymon Kulec - Blaming the tools, not behaviors

Management

• Dan Hardiker, Heather Wilde - Coaching vs Mentoring -- What's the Difference?

Industry

• Irish Council for Civil Liberties - GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

• City A.M. - Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans’ data on US servers

• Rufus Pollock - Awesome critique of crypto/web3

Trivia

• Alison Gree - The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed