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Architecture Weekly #87 - 8th August 2022

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Architecture Weekly #87 - 8th August 2022

Oskar Dudycz
Aug 8, 2022
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Architecture Weekly #87 - 8th August 2022

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Welcome to the new week!

Do you want to expose your company to a wide range of developers? One of the best ways to get social proof is to support Open Source. I'm thinking about an intriguing idea that could be an excellent option for you to build positive recognition!

Event Sourcing is a great way to connect the business and developers. It enables collaboration and mutual understanding of the business process and implementation. InfoQ, in their trends report, the "Late Majority" already uses it. I think that's a bit too early to say that, but that's also a chance for you!

Recently, I open-sourced spin-off of my private Event Sourcing workshops: self-paced kits. They're not the same experience as full workshops, but I think they're a decent and unique starting point that significantly cuts the ramp-up phase. They enable developers to learn the foundations of this pattern.

So what's the deal? I'm getting many questions about versions in the different technology stacks: Go, TypeScript, Rust, PHP, you name it! I'd like to deliver it, but there's an issue. I only show what I feel comfortable with. I want to do it in an idiomatic way and at the same level as I already did.

That's the chance for you! We could join our forces. Like Tom Cruise said in Jerry Maguire: "help me, help you". If your company would like to sponsor my effort of delivering the new version of those learning kits, I can use my channels (blogs, repositories, architecture weekly) to share that and ensure that the message reaches the audience.

Feel free to reach me in the comments or by direct message. I think that we can find a way to build the proper synergy!

As sharing is caring, even if that's not the offer for you or your company, I'll appreciate resharing or just sending the feedback in the comments confirming that you'll be interested as a developer in having such a self-paced kit!

In my recent article last week, I closed a trilogy about composition in business modelling. I explained how TypeScript enables straightforward and concise modelling. I showed how to build a simple but fully working WebAPI using Event Sourcing and ExpressJS with a domain modelled in TypeScript. See Straightforward Event Sourcing with TypeScript and NodeJS.

The critical aspect of proper modelling is setting proper boundaries. There are different dimensions: autonomy, change impact, language and context, etc. Check Trond Hjorteland’s talk Good Fences Make Good Neighbours, where he explains various aspects.

I like, from time to time check whitepapers. Some of them are indeed not easy to read, filled with jargon. Yet, a lot of them are the opposite. Well-written, touching, in-depth topics that are typically not covered in blog articles. I have two of them this week:

  • AWS - Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

  • N. Meslec, I. Aggarwal, P.L. Curseu - The Insensitive Ruins It All: Compositional and Compilational Influences of Social Sensitivity on Collective Intelligence in Groups

One explains the design of the AWS key-value database DynamoDB. The other shows intriguing dynamics and impact of the team composition.

Team composition needs to take a lot of aspects. Skills are only one aspect of that. Too often, a less competent technical team can be much more performant than a team containing technical experts. Why? Check:

  • Guy Dickinson - Skills as a System

  • Sebastian Gebski - A tech career advice: learn to set pieces

Check also other links!

Cheers
Oskar

p.s. I invite you to join the paid version of Architecture Weekly. It already contains the exclusive Discord channel for subscribers (and my GitHub sponsors), monthly webinars, etc. It is a vibrant space for knowledge sharing. Don’t wait to be a part of it!

p.s.2. Ukraine is still under brutal Russian invasion. A lot of Ukrainian people are hurt, without shelter and need help. You can help in various ways, for instance, directly helping refugees, spreading awareness, and putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating, e.g. to Red Cross, the Ukraine humanitarian organisation. You may also consider joining Tech for Ukraine initiative.

Architecture

  • Gregor Hohpe - Mastering the Architecture Mindset

  • Trond Hjorteland - Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

  • Pete Hodgson - Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working for You

  • Jérémie Chassaing - Event Sourcing vs Command Sourcing

Databases

  • AWS - Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

  • Alex DeBrie - Key Takeaways from the DynamoDB Paper

DevOps

  • Steven Giesel - Git-Flow, GitHub-Flow, Gitlab-Flow and Trunk Based Development explained

Frontend

  • Luis Aviles - Routing Management with LitElement and TypeScript

  • Angular - Minko Gechev - 4 Runtime Performance Optimizations

Go

  • Go Blog - Go 1.19 is released!

.NET

  • On .NET Live - LINQ to GraphQL: Query GraphQL with LINQ syntax with Giorgi Dalakishvili

  • EfficientDynamoDB - High-performance C# DynamoDb library

  • AWSLabs - AWS Lambda Powertools for .NET - A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda Functions that makes tracing with AWS X-Ray, structured logging and creating custom metrics asynchronously easier

  • FluentMermaid - Mermaid.js fluent api for .NET

  • Hirotada Kobayashi - PlantUmlClassDiagramGenerator - This is a generator to create a class-diagram of PlantUML from the C# source code

NodeJS

  • Oskar Dudycz - Straightforward Event Sourcing with TypeScript and NodeJS

Rust

  • Aleksey Kladov - Almost Rules

  • SourceGear Rust - Rust extension for Visual Studio

WebAssembly

  • Gavin Ray - A Quarkus app that allows deploying WASM & and other language functions as API handlers at runtime, using GraalVM

Coding Life

  • Sebastian Gebski - A tech career advice: learn to set pieces

Management

  • Lucas F. Costa - Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix them

  • Guy Dickinson - Skills as a System

  • N. Meslec, I. Aggarwal, P.L. Curseu - The Insensitive Ruins It All: Compositional and Compilational Influences of Social Sensitivity on Collective Intelligence in Groups

Product Design

  • Jason Beres - Why DesignOps Matters: How to Improve Your Design Processes

Industry

  • Machable - How fraudulent DMCA takedowns censored a prominent cryptocurrency critic on Substack

Trivia

  • Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge

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