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Architecture Weekly #99 - 31st October 2022

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Architecture Weekly #99 - 31st October 2022

Oskar Dudycz
Oct 31, 2022
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Architecture Weekly #99 - 31st October 2022

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Welcome to the new week!

You need to celebrate small successes; when I started Architecture Weekly almost two years ago, I didn’t think it would last so long. It started as a way to organise my neverending open tabs in Firefox. The next week will be 100 editions; let’s have some fun then!

I decided to do a Live Q&A on my Youtube Channel. It will happen Monday 7th of November at 4 PM CEST. Click the ring bell, etc., to not forget about it:

Please also send me your questions; you can ask me anything! I’ll try to answer all questions live, join it, and ask questions during the live stream!

Here’s the Google Form link: https://forms.gle/RgB51b7aWMNqekfk8.


Last week was pretty busy for me; I did a talk at my hometown Java User Group explaining how Event Sourcing can help in not losing business data. I also spoke for the first time at the PHP conference. Don’t worry, I didn’t try to cheat that I know it well, but I talked about the common issues: Facts and Myths about CQRS.

In the same way, James Hickey wrote a great, thorough explanation of the myths about Eventual Consistency in Event Sourcing. Read it not only if you use Event Sourcing; most of that also applies to the event-driven approach in general.

  • James Hickey - Event Sourcing: Without Eventual Consistency?

The messaging guarantees are foundational when we think about our architecture. As you know, I’m a massive fan of the Outbox Pattern. It’s great, Postgres is great, but they can create a surprisingly head-aching mixture. I wrote about that in my last article:

  • How Postgres sequences issues can impact your messaging guarantees

David Heinemeier Hansson is a controversial guy. He and his company often go in the opposite direction to the trends. Now they are challenged if the Cloud is always the best solution. Want to know why they just got back to bare metal? Check more:

  • David Heinemeier Hansson - Why we're leaving the cloud

Don’t also miss the latest Thoughtworks technology radar. You need to be careful and don’t take all of that for granted, but it’s always a good source of knowing what’s trending and obsolete. Especially for the obsolete parts, this report is rarely wrong (for the new stuff, it may not always catch up quickly).

  • Thoughtworks - Technology Radar #27

Yves Goeleven shared his Software Delivery Process. You don’t always see experienced architects taking their time to share their toolset:

  • Yves Goeleven - Software Delivery Process

Check, also other links and don’t forget to join my workshop with Practical Introduction to Event Sourcing!

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

  • James Hickey - Event Sourcing: Without Eventual Consistency?

  • Russell Ackoff - Why Few Organizations Adopt Systems Thinking

  • David Heinemeier Hansson - Why we're leaving the cloud

  • Yves Goeleven - Software Delivery Process

  • Mark Seemann - When to refactor

  • Kurt Bittner - Architectural Frameworks, Patterns, and Tactics Are No Substitute for Making Your Own Decisions

  • Thoughtworks - Technology Radar #27

  • Emmanuel Bernard, Clement Escoffier - Kafka: a map of traps for the enlightened dev and op

Databases

  • Oskar Dudycz - How Postgres sequences issues can impact your messaging guarantees

AWS

  • Matt Rickard - S3 Isn't Getting Cheaper

  • Alex Chan - Aurora vs. RDS: An Engineer’s Guide to Choosing a Database

  • Avinash Vallarapu - Is Aurora PostgreSQL really faster and cheaper than RDS PostgreSQL – Benchmarking

Azure

  • Gaurav Malhotra - Polyglot Microservices Communication Using Dapr on AKS

Functional Programming

  • Gjeta Gjyshinca - Monad I Love You Now Get Out Of My Type System

Java

  • picocli - a mighty tiny command line interface

  • JWebAssembly - Java bytecode to WebAssembly compiler

  • Adam Warski - Protecting state using virtual threads

Kotlin

  • Engineering at Meta - From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

.NET

  • David Wengier - What's new in C# 11 now with less controversy!!

  • Patrick Smacchia - Managed pointers, Span, ref struct, C#11 ref fields and the scoped keyword

  • James Randall - CSharp port of Wolfenstein using the funky new language features

  • Jeremy D. Miller - Using Context/Specification to better express complicated tests

Tools

  • Smitter hane - Turn around your Git mistakes in 17 ways

  • GitUI - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust

  • Tailscale - Making an SSH client the hard way

Coding Life

  • Mark Rendle - Programming’s Greatest Mistakes

  • Karl Sutt - How to communicate effectively as a developer

Management

  • Rob Rawson - Making remote and asynchronous work, work

Industry

  • TechCrunch - Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

  • The Verge - Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

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