Architecture Weekly #73 - 2nd May 2022

Welcome to the new week!

Composition is a key. A key for maintainable and straightforward software. Event-Driven is an approach that also enables that. By those powers combined, you can create a decent processing pipeline. I described that on practical C# example in my latest article: How to build a simple event pipeline.

Speaking on examples and keys. Practical ones are keys to understanding complex topics. Enrico Pincing managed to join that in his Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game article.

The other key to the learning process is understanding and transparency. Slack showed that in their post mortem explaining Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22. By the way, it’s always DNS, or cache, or DNS. Always.

In the same spirit, Jason Cox wrote his Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist. Compare that to your checklist and see if something is missing or you (dis)agree.

I’m not sure if it’s key to anything. To be true, I’m not even sure of what to think about that, but Elon Musk is taking ownership of Twitter:

• CNBC - Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal

• TechCrunch - Twitter is protecting its source code from disgruntled employees, reports say

I’m not a huge fan of Elon Musk, I’m not sure how many people are fascinated by him, but that’s touching me, as Twitter is my favourite social media. I’ll keep you posted if I have more findings.

Last but not least, I definitely need to read Daniel Stenberg - Uncurled - everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades. Sounds like a must-have for OSS maintainers.

Check also other links!

Cheers
Oskar

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Architecture

• Enrico Piccinin - Exploring Architectural Concepts Building a Card Game

• Mauro Servienti - We need insights, not data

• Slack Engineering - Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

• Simon Emms - Building a RESTful API With Functions

• Dinker Charak - Quality should be everyone’s focus

Distributed Systems

• WhatsApp Raft - WARaft - An Erlang implementation of RAFT from WhatsApp

• Istio - Istio has applied to become a CNCF project

DevOps

• Viktor Farcic - Terraform? Pulumi? Helm? Kustomize? Ansible? None Of Those?

• Jason Cox - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Playlist

Frontend

• DesignCourse - Learn HTML & CSS in 2022 | Crash Course

• The Net Ninja - Make a Wordle Clone with React

• Facebook - Lexical - an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance

AI

• J.C. Petersona, S. Uddenberg,T.L. Griffiths, A. Todorov,J.W. Suchow - Deep models of superficial face judgments

Go

• Amos Wenger - Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

.NET

• Steven Giesel - From Zero to Production - Generate everything with a single button

• Muhammad Azeez - Mocking Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core Integration Tests

• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Testing ASP.NET Core 6 Apps

• Andrew Lock - Keeping up with .NET: learning about new features and APIs

• Oskar Dudycz - How to build a simple event pipeline

NodeJS

• Google - WireIt - Upgrades your npm scripts to make them smarter and more efficient

Ruby

• Avdi Grimm - Keep Ruby Weird 2018

Coding Life

• Felienne Hermans - The Programmer's Brain

• Michael Jin - Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix

Management

• Scott Hanselman - Building Teams Through Systems Thinking and Stories

• Mike Griffiths - Toptal Blog Proposal: Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Industry

• Daniel Stenberg - Uncurled - everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades

• CNBC - Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal

• TechCrunch - Twitter is protecting its source code from disgruntled employees, reports say