Architecture Weekly #82 - 4th July 2022

Welcome to the new week!

Last week I finished with the link about the nostalgic journey of digging out old gems and how software design has changed. This time I’ll start with a similar piece. I think it’s essential to understand where we come from and how we transitioned. Thanks to that, we can learn where are we going and predict upcoming changes. Especially in our rapidly changing industry, such knowledge can be critical. We can also find out that not all the jazzy patterns we just learned are so brand new. Check:

• Computer History Museum - Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1

• Computer History Museum - Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 2

A decent example of this thesis is REST. We usually think about it, focusing on the HTTP verbs and Resource naming. This is fine, but it’s not the most crucial aspect. The most important is Hypermedia, so linking resources together. It allows for designing and semantic evolutionary APIs. That makes it also easier to create frontend applications. See more in:

• Julien Topçu - REST next level : Crafting business-oriented web APIs

Speaking about frontend. To say that I’m not a fan of client code generation is to say nothing. I think this is one of the ideas that sound appealing but ends up as a maintenance nightmare. It’s a nice dream that never comes true. Why? Read more in my article:

• Should you generate the client code from the API?

If Pat Helland has a new article or video, it’s a straight recommendation from me. Check his latest one:

• Pat Helland - I’m SO Glad I’m Uncoordinated: Coordination Is Increasingly Painful... What Can Be Done?

Changing the topic, as you know, I’m an active OSS contributor. Even last week, I produced two new bigger samples:

• Pragmatic Event Sourcing with Marten,

• Simple patterns for events schema versioning in Java.

I think that, in general, the OSS model is broken. It’s hard to maintain OSS software sustainably. I think that bigger enterprises are showing their open face just to have social proof, which is trendy to be open. Donations are not real solutions. Check:

• Dustin Moris Gorski - Fund OSS through package managers

I wholeheartedly agree that enabling tooling can be a good step forward. It won’t solve all the issues, as we maintainers need to learn how to sell our work and build products, not just code for fun and burn out eventually.

Speaking about burnout, have a look at

• ifuckinghatejira.com

Wink wink.

Check also more links below!

Cheers
Oskar

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Architecture

• Derek Comartin - Avoiding Batch Jobs by a message in the FUTURE

• Mark Seemann - Fractal Architecture

• Nick Tune - The Structure and Process Fallacy

• Kenny Baas-Schwegler - Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Distributed Systems

• Cockroach Labs - Why We Run Managed CockroachDB on Kubernetes

Databases

• Pat Helland - I’m SO Glad I’m Uncoordinated: Coordination Is Increasingly Painful... What Can Be Done?

• Zalando: Enriching E-Commerce Search with Elasticsearch 8’s k-Nearest Neighbours

API

• Oskar Dudycz - Should you generate the client code from the API?

• Julien Topçu - REST next level : Crafting business-oriented web APIs

Go

• Byron Ruth - Rita - Toolkit for event-centric and reactive patterns leveraging NATS

.NET

• Tomasz Pęczek - Micro Frontends in Action With ASP.NET Core - Server-Side Routing via YARP in Azure Container Apps

• AngleSharp - The ultimate angle brackets parser library parsing HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specifications

• Octokit.Webhooks - GitHub webhook events toolset for .NET

• Steve Sanderson - Experimental WASI SDK for .NET Core

Python

• John Bywater - Event Sourced Building Blocks for DDD with Python

Tools

• Upptime - Free uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub

• Scott Hanselman - Developing for Linux on Windows

• GitHub - Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor

Coding Life

• Computer History Museum - Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1

• Computer History Museum - Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 2

• Dev Interrupted - The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs

Industry

• Dustin Moris Gorski - Fund OSS through package managers

• Software Freedom Conservancy - Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Security

• Troy Hunt - Understanding Have I Been Pwned’s Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

• Ryan Badger - “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.

Trivia

• Bridget Kromhout - in the kingdom of the blind

• ifuckinghatejira.com