12-Mar-2024 Content of Interest

Software

State of the Terminal Ah, the VT100 brings back memories of the VAX days.
Microsoft makes the promise of AI in healthcare real through new collaborations with healthcare organizations and partners (Robert Dahdah)
So you’ve been reorg’d… "most reorgs are reactions to some form of failure"
Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure (Natalia Venditto) "I will avoid as much as possible the term micro-frontend, because we're speaking about rich decoupled applications in the cloud."
Complexity in Software Engineering (Seorazer) Vortex of doom!
S3 is files, but not a filesystem What S3 is good at and what it is bad at.
Deliberate Abstraction Abstractions: "Used incorrectly, it can turn conceptually simple things into endless mud."

Your Next Job: Brain-Computer Interface Surgeon (Caitlin Kelly) "A decade from now, BCI devices will look very different from what we have today."“
No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing “There’s a small subset of applications where it makes sense to use it, but when it does make sense it can be very powerful."

Luck and Leadership (Mike Fisher) “Luck doesn’t favor the lucky; it favors the prepared.” -- Vince Lombardi
Kubernetes Deployments Demystified: A Guide to the Rolling Update Deployment Strategy (Mercy Bassey) Have to keep up with my Kubernetes reading.
“Good enough” code is just not good enough (Hrvoje Rancic) It's always better to take the high road.
The Hunt for the Missing Data Type "There is almost no graph support in any mainstream language."

Do not copy successful architectures (Michał Grabowski) "The concept of a one-size-fits-all approach is ineffective."
Strangulating the monolith to a pluggable and scalable architecture (Tasneem Damen) True MACH architecture at McDonald's. Also, TIL that "strangulating" is a word.
Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java (Volodymyr Gubarkov) Fun read for those of us with JNI experience.
How Netflix Really Uses Java (Paul Bakker) Lots of interesting Java details.
Small Changes (Mike Fisher) "Often, small incremental changes can lead to outsized results."

Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face (Martin Fowler)
James Bach on Questioning the Norms of Software Testing (Darko Fabijan)
Common Mistakes in Modularisation Modules are created to hide a design decision.
The most important skill for 21st century (Fiodar Sazanavets) "The ability to focus for prolonged periods of time"
Software Architecture, In Practice (Ted Neward) Sofware Architect vs. Organizational Architect.
After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult Title is misleading. Good read on creating quality software.
The magic triangle of software development (Ante Peric)

The anatomy of a REPL (Eero Helenius) tl;dr of the Clojure REPL [Software]

HTMX vs React: A Complete Comparison (Antonello Zanini) Don't know much about HTMX and have used React, so this was an informative read.
Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong (Steve Fenton) "Why has the solution to the Kubernetes complexity problem proven so elusive?"
A tale of three architectures (carlana) "You learn a lot by doing."
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior (zimpenfish) Lot's of reality!
Understanding Data Lineage in Big Data: Challenges, Solutions, and Its Impact on Data Quality (Chris Ebube Roland)