3rd June 2024

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Architecture

• Google Cloud Blog - 5 myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn’t
• Andy Jiang, Luca Casonato, Jo Franchetti - How to document your JavaScript package
• Afrefs - How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure With a 90% Discount
• Tommi Hovi - Demystifying cookies and tokens
• Decentralized Identity Foundation - Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as an Identifier Metasystem

DevOps

• GitHub - Introducing Artifact Attestations–now in public beta

Frontend

• Dan Abramov - React for Two Computers

Database

• Markus Winand - Use the Index, Luke! A Guide to Database Performance for Developers
• CedarDB - An ode to PostgreSQL, and why it is still time to start over

Testing

• Matteo Vaccari - Test-Driving HTML Templates

AWS

• AWS Database Blog - Continuously replicate Amazon DynamoDB changes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Lambda

Java

• Nicolai Parlog - Model Data, the Whole Data, and Nothing but the Data - Data Oriented Programming v1.1
• Vlad Mihlacea - PostgreSQL COPY result set to file

.NET

• Damien Bod - Implement a Microsoft Entra ID external authentication method using ASP.NET Core and OpenIddict
• Michael Staib - Getting Started with OpenTelemetry and GraphQL in .NET
• Andrew Lock - Thoughts about primary constructors: 3 pros and 5 cons
• dnvm - A command-line interface for installing and updating different dotnet SDKs

Coding Life

• Mark Seemann - Fundamentals

Industry

• Robin Dev - Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
• VentureBeat - Dell earnings reveal sluggish enterprise AI adoption
• TechRadar - EU ChatGPT Taskforce: a road to GDPR enforcement on AI?
• Above the Law - Airline Said It's Not Responsible For Terrible Advice From Its Own Customer Service AI Bot. The Court... Disagreed.

Security

• Kevin Beaumont - Snowflake at centre of world’s largest data breach
• ArsTechnica - Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
• Zeev Kalyuzhner - Exploiting LLMs: Unpacking Excessive Agency in a 6-Step Guide

Trivia

• Computing: the Details - Call the compiler, fax it your code

27th May 2024

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Architecture

• Uber - Migrating a Trillion Entries of Uber’s Ledger Data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
• The Register - Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time
• Pinterest Engineering - How a one line change decreased our clone times by 99%
• the engineering club - Inverse-Conway-Maneuver with Nick Tune
• Jonny LeRoy - Dealing with creaky legacy platforms
• Bruno Costa - You probably don’t need microservices
• Adam Bellemare - Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams — Part 2
• 📺 Developer Voices - Mojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner)
• Maaret Pyhäjärvi - Making Releases Routine
• Antithesis - The worst bug we faced at Antithesis
• J. Liu, S. Poulsen, E. Goodwin, H. Chen, G. Williams, Y. Gertner, D. Franklin - Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review
• David Boike - What does idempotent mean in software systems?

DevOps

• Joseph Lynch - How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems

Databases

• Mike Stonebraker - Introducing DBOS Cloud: Transactional Serverless Computing on a Cloud-Native OS
• Alexander Belanger - An unfair advantage: multi-tenant queues in Postgres
• Jonathan Katz - Scalar and binary quantization for pgvector vector search and storage

Frontend

• Minko Gechev - Angular v18 is now available!
• Jack Herrington - React Compiler With React 18
• React - React Compiler

Java

• Aleksey Stukalov, Catherine Edelveis - Java Runtimes: Insights From the Spring Boot Point of View

Kotlin

• Artur Skowronski - Kotlin 2.0 & opinionated Wrap-up of KotlinConf 2024 – JVM Weekly vol. 84
• JetBrains - Celebrating Kotlin 2.0: Fast, Smart, and Multiplatform
• Kotlin - What's new in Kotlin 2.0.0

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Why you should batch message processing and how to do it with .NET AsyncEnumerable
• Microsoft - General Availability of .NET Aspire: Simplifying .NET Cloud-Native Development
• Microsoft - .NET Announcements and Updates from Microsoft Build 2024
• Andrew Lock - Thoughts about primary constructors: 3 pros and 5 cons
• Chris Simon - TDD, DDD, and C# from the Ground Up

Tools

• Gorilla CLI - LLMs for your CLI . Powers your command-line interactions with a user-centric tool

Management

• Aleix Morgadas - Awesome Engineering Strategy

20th May 2024

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Architecture

• 📺 Oskar Dudycz - Let's build the worst Event Sourcing system!
• ArsTechnica - “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
• chubernetes - Evolution of Monolithic Systems
• 📺 Tech Leaders Launchpad - How to Stay Adaptable as a Startup CTO with Chris Simon
• Udi Dahan - Race Conditions Don’t Exist
• Learn Software Architecture - The Functional Turn: Rethinking Programming Paradigms - LIVE interview with Urs Enzler
• Uptime - Building sustainable software architectures using residuality theory
• James Shore - Free Self-Guided “Testing Without Mocks” Training

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - Docker Compose Profiles, one the most useful and underrated features
• The Stack - Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
• Maciej Pocwierz - How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
• AWS - Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
• Marc Campbell - Understanding how uid and gid work in Docker containers
• GitHub - dependabot-core is now open source with an MIT license

Databases

• Alejandro García Montoro - Making a Postgres query 1,000 times faster

Testing

• Emily Bache - I REGRET Not Telling Dave Farley THIS about Approval Testing
• Hillel Wayne - "Integration tests" are just vibes

AI

• Reuters - OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
• Slack - How Slack protects your data when using machine learning and AI
• The NewYork Times - What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?

AWS

• Saurabh Sharma, Jordan Rosenbloom - Event Driven Architecture using Amazon EventBridge – Part 1

Java

• OpenJDK - JEP 467: Markdown Documentation Comments

JVM

• Tobi Ajila - Optimizing JVM for the Cloud: Strategies for Success

.NET

• Microsoft - .NET 7 will reach End of Support on May 14, 2024
• Dan Clarke - Snapshot Testing with Verify
• 📺 Aaron Stannard - Make Illegal States Unrepresentable - N+1 and Arithmetic Errors
• Martin Thwaites - Trace Propagation and Public API Endpoints in .NET – Part 1 (Disable All)

Coding Life

• 📺 Natan Silnitsky - Supercharge Your Developer Journey with Tiny Atomic Habits

Industry

• J. Terrell, A. Kofink, J. Middleton, C. Rainear - Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

Security

• Infiscal - Open Source Secret Management
• The Verge - Single-tap passkeys are coming to Android 15

Trivia

• Paul Graham - Keep Your Identity Small

13th May 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Joshua Bloch - How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
• Eugene Yan - Simplicity is An Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better
• Eberhard Wolff & Alberto Brandolini: The Chasm Between Architecture and Business
• Mohit Palriwal - Unraveling the Enigma: Debunking Myths Surrounding Lambda Cold Starts
• Adam Bellemare - Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams — Part 1
• Matt Butcher - Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach
• Maciej "MJ" Jędrzejewski - When Can't Trunk: Meet Short-Living Branches

DevOps

• Timescale - A Deep Dive Into OpenTelemetry Metrics
• Docker - Wasm vs. Docker: Performant, Secure, and Versatile Containers
• Bert Wullems - Kubernetes–Setup a local cluster through Podman Desktop

Databases

• AWS - Data modeling with Amazon DocumentDB

Distributed Systems

• Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ) - A lightweight message queue. Like AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres

AI

• Jay Alammar - The Illustrated Word2vec

UX

• Dean Schuster - The Crisps and Pickle Story: What's Really Behind Infamous, Historic UI Failures?
• How-To Geek - A Visual History of Windows Icons: From Windows 1 to 11

Java

• Oskar Dudycz - How to write a left-fold streams collector in Java

Kotlin

• Zac Sweers - Preparing for K2

.NET

• Aaron Stannard - Easy, Database Agnostic NET Event Sourcing and CQRS with Akka.NET
• João Antunes - Where are my traces? (weird .NET meets OpenTelemetry gotcha)
• Stephen Toub, Scott Hanselman - Deep Dive into RegEx
• Richard Lander - Secure your container build and publish with .NET 8

Tools

• VSCode - Using WebAssembly for Extension Development

Coding Life

• Adam Tornhill - Programming like it's 1977: exploring the Atari VCS

Management

• Dale H. Emery - Resistance as a Resource

Industry

• OpenAI - API Partnership with Stack Overflow
• The Register - Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

Security

• Daniel Bass - 45 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Modeling Authorization

6th May 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Corey Quinn - Multi-Cloud is the Worst Practice
• Vercel - Why all application migrations should be incremental
• Anton Zaides - How refactoring almost ruined my marriage. And why it should be your LAST choice
• 📺 Jacqui Read - Knowledge Management for the Technically Inclined
• John D. Sterman - All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist

DevOps

• TraceLens - the OpenTelemetry UI
• Alistair Grew - The beginning of the end for Terraform?

Testing

• Steve Berczuk - Really Dumb Tests

UX

• Brad Frost - The art of design system recipes

Frontend

• React - React 19 Beta is available
• 📺 Theo - React 19 Is FINALLY Here

AI

• 📺 Michelle Frost - The Elephant in your Dataset: Addressing Bias in Machine Learning
• Martin Fowler - An example of LLM prompting for programming

AWS

• AWS - Improving Developer Productivity at Disney with Serverless and Open Source
• Luca Mezzalira - AWS Lambda under the hood

Azure

• Mateusz Jendza - Entra External ID for Customers - first impression

Google Cloud

• Google - Introducing Shadow API detection for your Google Cloud environments

Java

• Oskar Dudycz - This is not your uncle's Java! Modelling with Java 22 records pattern matching in practice
• 📺 Brian Goetz - Java Language Update -- a look at where the language is going

.NET

• TurboMqtt - The fastest Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) client for .NET.
• Daniel Marbach - Beyond simple benchmarks—A practical guide to optimizing code with BenchmarkDotNet
• dotnet-xunit-otel - An xUnit test framework that wraps tests in a trace to provide better visualisation of the test flows
• EFCoreSecondLevelCacheInterceptor - EF Core Second Level Cache Interceptor

Node.js

• primate - Introducing rcompat, a JavaScript interoperability and runtime compatibility layer for servers

Management

• James Shore - A Software Engineering Career Ladder
• Hazel Weakly - Observations of Leadership (Part One)
• John Cutler - Software Development As Collective Learning With Hazel Weakly

Industry

• Harvard Business Review - If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired
• Microsoft - Microsoft announces US$1.7 billion investment to advance Indonesia’s cloud and AI ambitions
• TechCrunch - Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference

29th April 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Shopify - Improving Shopify App’s Performance
• Maxime Chevalier - The Alternative Implementation Problem
• David Hope - Async APIs - don't confuse your events, commands and state

DevOps

• Oskar Dudycz - How to configure a custom Test Container on the EventStoreDB example
• The NewStack - Top 10 Tools for Kafka Engineers

Databases

• Supabase - Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol
• Marc Brooker - MemoryDB: Speed, Durability, and Composition.

Testing

• MailCrab - Email test server for development, written in Rust

Frontend

• 📺 Theo - From 0 to Production - The Modern React Tutorial (RSCs, Next.js, Shadui, Drizzle, TS and more)
• Evert Pot - ECMAScript 4: The missing version

Azure

• Microsoft - Trusted Signing is in Public Preview

Java

• Petri Kainulainen - Writing Integration Tests for Spring Boot Web Applications: Spring Profiles
• Oracle - JDK 17 approaches end-of-permissive license

.NET

• 📺 Ian Cooper - Kafka for .NET Developers
• Jimmy Bogard - Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Authentication
• Aaron Stannard - Akka.NET, ASP.NET Core, Hosted Services, and Dependency Injection
• Patrick Smacchia - Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?

Node.js

• Zachary Lee - Native Support for CJS/ESM Interoperability Begins in Node.js 22
• Node.js - Node.js 22 is now available!

TypeScript

• 📺 John A. De Goes - Why Effect is more important than ZIO

Product Design

• Daniel D. McKinnon - Product Management at Meta vs. Google or My Take on How to Evaluate your {Google,Meta} Offer
• 📺 Daniel Terhorst-North - How to Bake a Change

Coding Life

• Jared Turner - WIP is waste

Industry

• HashCorp - HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation
• Microsoft - Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0

Security

• William Brown - Passkeys: A Shattered Dream

Trivia

• ArsTechnica - After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip

22nd April 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Indu Alagarsamy - Application and Architecture Modernization - Where do we Start?
• Fred Hebert - Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
• Marc Brooker - Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice?
• Paul Reardon - Messaging Basics
• 📺 Michiel Overeem - How We Write Better Software with Low-Code
• 📺 Tomasz Lelek and Mark Rendle - Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs
• Omid Eidivandi - Automating EventCatalog at Scale
• Swift - API Design Guidelines
• 📺 Valentina Jemuović - Hexagonal Architecture in Monoliths and Microservices

DevOps

• Adidas Engineering - How we are managing a container platform: a tale about the past
• Giannis Papadakis - Evaluate Performance at Massive Scale workshop
• Tim Deschryver - Load testing
• Karpenter - Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity
• Microsoft - Autothrottle: A Practical Bi-Level Approach to Resource Management for SLO-Targeted Microservices

Databases

• Dylan Paulus - Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn't Know You Had
• Neo4j - ISO GQL: A Defining Moment in the History of Database Innovation
• Snowflake - A Breakthrough AI-Powered SQL Assistant

AI

• Meta - Introducing Meta Llama 3

Azure

• Piotr Stapp - Exploring Azure Container Apps (ACA) and the Missing YAML Functionality

AWS

• AWS Compute Blog - Comparing design approaches for building serverless microservices

Java

• OpenJDK - JEP 473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)

.NET

• 📺 Scott Hanselman - Stephen Toub - Deep Dive on LINQ
• Chisel - Remove unwanted dependencies from your dotnet projects
• Jeff Hansen - FxKit - Functional programming utilities and Roslyn components for writing expressive C#
• Oleksii Nikiforov - Building pipelines with System.Threading.Channels

Node.js

• Oskar Dudycz - Mocking the native Node.js Test Runner

Industry

• The Verge - Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
• The Verge - Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest

Security

• Orca Security - LeakyCLI: AWS and Google Cloud Command-Line Tools Can Expose Sensitive Credentials in Build Logs
• PuTTY - Vulnerability vuln-p521-bias - private keys are exposed by biased signature generation

Trivia

• Maria Farrell - We Need To Rewild The Internet

15th April 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Learn Software Architecture - Event Sourcing for Newbies - LIVE interview with Oskar Dudycz
• Discord - How Discord Moved Engineering to Cloud Development Environments
• Netflix - A Tale of Two Frameworks: The Domain Graph Service Framework Meets Spring GraphQL
• Edsger W.Dijkstra - On the role of scientific thought
• Barry O'Sullivan - Event Granularity: Modelling events in event driven applications
• IEEE Spectrum - Q&A: Adele Goldberg on the Legacy of Smalltalk. One of the language’s original developers talks about its influence on modern-day programming

DevOps

• InfoWorld - OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
• Podman - Podman Desktop 1.9 Release
• derekhe - Keygen.sh docker compose example

Databases

• Jonathan Katz - Will PostgreSQL ever change its license?

Frontend

• Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library

Java

• Saeed Zarinfam - How to Detect Cache Misses Using Observability
• Josh Long - Spring Tips: Hello, Java 22!

JavaScript

• Ecma Script Comitee - JavaScript Signals standard proposal

.NET

• PostgreSQL - Announcing pl/dotnet, version 0.99 (beta)
• Howard van Rooijen - ASP.NET Core + Razor + HTMX + Chart.js
• Martin Thwaites - Practical OpenTelemetry in .NET 8
• João Antunes - Primitive vs strongly typed dictionary keys (feat. frozen collections and BenchmarkDotNet)

TypeScript

• Oskar Dudycz - How to build an in-memory Message Bus in TypeScript
• Testing Signals with Angular Testing Library

Tools

• rebase-editor - Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase
• Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows

Coding Life

• Gareth Edwards - She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home. The untold story of Lore Harp McGovern

Industry

• ITPro - AWS fined $525 million after US court rules Amazon S3 storage, DynamoDB services infringed patents
• Kove - Original compliant against Amazon
• Emna Ayadi - Diversity in Tech Conferences

Security

• 9to5Google - Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming
• CVE-2024-24576 (CVSS 10): Rust Flaw Exposes Windows Systems to Command Injection Attacks
• The Register - Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware'
• Arctic Wolf - Behind the Ballot: Insights from Arctic Wolf’s 2024 Election Security Survey
• Assured - Securing a Record-Breaking Election Year: Easier Said than Cyber Done

8th April 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Event modelling anti-patterns explained
• Oliver Wehrens - Why you need a macro architecture
• Mario Bittencourt - Exploring Advanced Error Handling Patterns with Event-Driven Architecture — Part I
• Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave - Uncovering the Seams in Mainframes for Incremental Modernisation

DevOps

• Elastic - Elastic now providing distributions for OpenTelemetry SDKs
• OpenTelemetry - Span Links documentation
• The NewStack - Can OpenTofu Become the HTTP of Infrastructure as Code?

Databases

• Sylvain Kerkour - Optimizing SQLite for servers
• ExtendClass - PostgreSQL online playgroun

AWS

• Yan Cui - DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies. But is that a good idea?

Azure

• Microsoft - Announcing Distributed Functions (Preview) for Azure Static Web Apps

Java

• OpenJDK - JEP draft: Module Import Declarations (Preview)

.NET

• Chris Patterson - Using Open Telemetry with the MassTransit Test Harness?
• Steve Gordon, Martijn Laarman - Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry SDK for .NET
• Microsoft - Testing Your Native AOT Applications
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Responsive Images Crash Course for ASP.NET Core Developers

WebAssembly

• Ryan Levick - Deconstructing WebAssembly Components

Coding Life

• Brent Ozar - How the Company-Startup Thing Worked Out For Me, Year 12
• Brendan Gregg - Brilliant Jerks in Engineering

Management

• Brian Elliott - Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

Security

• Evan Boehs - Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
• Lasse Collin - XZ Utils backdoor
• Gynvael Coldwind - xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
• Thomas Roccia - XZ Outbreak InphoGraphic
• Andres Freund - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
• Rob Mensching - A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects

1st April 2024

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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, putting pressure on your local government or companies. You can also support Ukraine by donating e.g. to Red Cross, Ukraine humanitarian organisation or donate Ambulances for Ukraine.

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Architecture

• Surabhi Diwan - Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix
• Hazel Weakly - Redefining Observability
• Diana Montalion - Systems Thinking for Software Professionals
• Woody Zuill, Kevin Meadows - But, We Need Proof Before We Try It
• Kurt Bittner, Pierre Pureur - Agile Architecture, Lean Architecture, or Both?
• Claudio Gargiulo - Consuming a Kafka Topic Is Easy, Isn’t It?
• Udi Dahan - Udi & Greg Reach CQRS Agreement
• Confluent - Introducing Tableflow

Databases

• CNCF - Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community
• Harshit Agarwal - Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem
• Hannes Mühleisen - 42.parquet – A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age

Testing

• J. B. Rainsberger - TDD: You're Probably Doing It Just Fine
• Microsoft - APIs load testing using K6

AI

• Michael Feathers 0 Recency Bias or Cognitive Load? Surfacing Capability in Large Language Models

Java

• Baeldung - Spring WebClient vs. RestTemplate
• Spring - Hypermedia and Browser Enhancement

JavaScript

• date-fns - Modern JavaScript date utility library

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - I'm no longer Marten maintainer
• Andrew W. Lock - Implementing Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the shortest path between two nodes using PriorityQueue in .NET 9
• Stephen Toub, Scott Hanselman - Writing async/await from scratch in C#
• Anthony Simmon - .NET Aspire dashboard is the best tool to visualize your OpenTelemetry data during local development
• AWS - Introducing the AWS Message Processing Framework for .NET (Preview)

Tools

• Jesse Duffield - Make advanced Git tasks simple with Lazygit

Management

• Abi Noda, Tim Cochran - Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans

Industry

• The Register - Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies' jobs

Security

• Orein Eini - Certificates from the ground up
• WebAuthn Local Client - Browser-only utils for locally managing WebAuthn (passkey) API