Architecture Weekly #75 - 16th May 2022

Welcome to the new week!

Do you have a DevOps engineer in your team? If yes, I’d encourage you to consider at least renaming this role. I often see where the Operations team was rebranded and renamed into the DevOps team. It is not enough. There was a clear split between development and operations teams when I started my career. Different toolset, skills and practices. Luckily that changed, and now we have a lot of great tools to enable automation. Yet, tools are one thing; the most important is to change the process and think about building project as a collaborative approach of development, operations, security, business and other stakeholders. The more we work together, the higher chance for success.

What do my inclinations for event-based architectures and CI/CD have in common? Focus on the essence, so make sure the system works correctly. Both in terms of business and technology. The more we automate, the more we can focus on delivering business value.

Last week I wrote A few tricks on how to set up related Docker images with docker-compose. Beware! There’s a lot of YAML in it.

DevOps tooling section is strong this week, check especially:

• GitHub - Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries

• Stack Overflow - blackbox - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion

• Docker - The Magic of Docker Desktop is Now Available on Linux

I could count into that also a free Honeycomb's O'Reilly Book Observability Engineering. However, observability is monitoring and change in process, understanding, and team capabilities. We need to understand what we’re building business-wise and shape the right architecture to have proper observability.

Are you Java Developer? If yes, then check Angie Jones Free Courses. Again, a lot of quality, but not only, but you can also learn a lot about Java from it.

As the last recommended link, check why recently Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995's 3D Movie Maker. TLDR, it’s a power on Twitter!

Cheers
Oskar

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Architecture

• Honeycomb's O'Reilly Book Observability Engineering

• Derek Comartin - Building a Webhooks System

• luminousmen - Modern Big Data Architectures - Lambda & Kappa

• William Boxhall - Event sourcing - basic concepts

• Martin Fowler - Responsible Tech Playbook

• Jim Humelsine - Hexagonal Architecture & Legacy Code

• William Boxhall - Event sourcing - basic concepts

• Slack Engineering - Reducing Slack's memory footprint

Distributed Systems

• B. Fan, H. Lim, D. G. Andersen, M. Kaminsky - Small Cache, Big Effect: Provable Load Balancing for Randomly Partitioned Cluster Services

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - A few tricks on how to set up related Docker images with docker-compose

• Stack Overflow - blackbox - Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion

• GitHub - Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries

• Docker - The Magic of Docker Desktop is Now Available on Linux

• LearnK8S - Research documents on node instance types, managed services, ingress controllers, CNIs, etc.

Databases

• Timescale - Time-series compression algorithms, explained

API

• Manning - APIs Conference 2021 Recordings

• Redoc - OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

Java

• Angie Jones - Free Courses

.NET

• .NET Blog - YARP 1.1 is here with new requested reverse proxy features

• Aaron Stannard - An Overview of Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry in .NET 6

• Andrew W. Lock - Generating sortable Guids using NewId

• Oleksii Nikiforov - Creating and Using HTTP Client SDKs in .NET 6

NodeJS

• Michael Herman - Node, gRPC, and Postgres

TypeScript

• Colin McDonnell - Zod - TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

Coding Life

• Gergely Orosz - How to (not) choose a startup to join: lessons from Fast

Trivia

• ArsTechnica - Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995's 3D Movie Maker because someone asked

• Microsoft - Microsoft 3D Movie Maker source codes