Architecture Weekly #77 - 30th May 2022

Welcome to the new week!

I wrote this week on my blog about why it's essential to maintain our ignorance as it may help us to do our job more efficiently. By getting the experience, we’re pretty often losing our genuine look. It’s worth getting back to the freshman simplicity. Being ignorant sounds like a bad thing, yet, I think there is a strong power in ignorance. It helps get the job done, keep things stupid simple, and maintain focus. It’s good to remind ourselves about that. Read more in Power of ignorance, or how to write simple code.

So it seems that there’s a wisdom in being ignorant. What’s better to get wisdom than a decent, filled bookshelf. If you’re looking for inspiration, check:

• Mustapha Hadid - Software Architecture Books

• Gregor Hohpe - The Architect’s Path (Part 2 - Bookshelf)

Are you fatigued by online meetings? Check the latest research published in Nature magazine

• Melanie S. Brucks, Jonathan Levav - Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

If you believe that there are places that cannot have security leaks. Check:

• The Hacker News - Nearly 100,000 NPM Users' Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach

Luckily, the IT organisations are embracing that, and trying to fight this uneven battle:

• The Linux Foundation - The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan

Check also more links below!

Cheers
Oskar

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Architecture

• Eric Evans - Getting Started with DDD when surrounded by legacy systems

• Thomas Pierrain - Hexagonal != Layers

• Eleanor Kolossovski - A Strategist’s Guide to Platform Thinking

• Mathias Verraes - Conway’s Law Doesn’t Apply to Rigid Designs

• Mustapha Hadid - Software Architecture Books

• Gregor Hohpe - The Architect’s Path (Part 2 - Bookshelf)

• Aaron Stannard - High Optionality Programming: Software Architectures that Reduce Technical Debt - Part 1

Databases

• Daniel Holt - CockroachDB vs AWS Aurora

• CockroachDB - Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible

API

• Asbjørn Ulsberg - The REST And Then Some

• Stefan Tilkov - REST: I don't Think it Means What You Think it Does

AI

• DAIR.AI - Transformer Recipe

AWS

• CDK Day - CDK Day May 2022 Recordings - Track 1

Go

• Fiber - Express inspired web framework written in Go

Hardware

• Endgaget - Microsoft's Project Volterra is a mini PC for ARM developers

JavaScript

• js-joda - Immutable date and time library for JavaScript

.NET

• Grzegorz Orwat - Decorating Command Handlers Using MediatR and ASP.NET Core DI

• .NET Blog - The Azure Cosmos DB Journey to .NET 6

• Coravel - Near-zero config .NET Core library that makes Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Mailing, Event Broadcasting (and more) a breeze!

• .NET Blog - Introducing .NET MAUI – One Codebase, Many Platforms

TypeScript

• Drew Colthorp - Flavoring: Flexible Nominal Typing for TypeScript

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - Power of ignorance, or how to write simple code

Management

• Melanie S. Brucks, Jonathan Levav - Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

Security

• The Hacker News - Nearly 100,000 NPM Users' Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach

• The Linux Foundation - The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan

Trivia

• Yves Lorphelin - 31 years and about 6000 hours later

• Patrick Stoke - No, you’re not entitled to your opinion