25-Nov-2025 Content of Interest

Software

Event Design for Streaming Systems: A Primer (Ian Duncan) "The key challenge is managing these public event streams as contracts between teams."
Demystifying Determinism in Durable Execution (Jack Vanlightly)
How Do We Effectively Communicate Architecture? (Stuart Breingan) "Architecture is complex, and most of the time the fastest and clearest way to convey it is visually."
Fifty Shades of OOP (Lesley Lai) "survey some ideas related to OOP and mention their pros and cons"
Building a Durable Execution Engine With SQLite (Gunnar Morling)
Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines (Susam Pal) "the modest goal of making this simple problem more complicated" Mission accomplished!
Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4: The tastiest bites - JVM Weekly vol. 153 (Artur Skowronski) "new generation of practically all its flagship projects: Spring Framework 7, Spring Boot 4, Spring Data 2025.1, and a release for Spring AI 1.1 for the Boot 3.5 line"

📄 TDD is more important than ever (Justin Searls) "Without tests, you can't refactor aggressively, deploy frequently, or delete safely."
Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels (Dave Griffith) "The good news is that developing the skills and processes necessary to take advantage of the amazing new possibilities provided by agentic software development is quite feasible."

Spikiness (Mike Fisher) "Evolution is survival."
GitHub in 2025 (Stephen O’Grady) "Each new tool that has its moment in the sun"
the terminal of the future (Jynn Nelson) Interesting. Lots of considerations.
Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher (Gergely Orosz) Yikes! Why would anyone want to write a book!
Build better software to build software better (David Reed) "We fixed this problem by combining modern, high-performance build tooling (Bazel) with classic software engineering principles."
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (James Somers) "ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about."

A fresh look at the Spring Framework (Matthew Tyson) "The iconic Java framework has evolved and modernized, integrating a host of new features without sacrificing power or simplicity."
Hero’s Journey (Mike Fisher) "Every company needs one"
Architects Among Us: The Many Shapes of Software Architecture (Adron Hall) "A software architect’s real job is to balance competing forces."
Why Engineers Can’t Be Rational About Programming Languages (Steve Francia) "these decisions are rarely about technology"
A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby (Vinay Keerthi) I love Ruby minutiae.

Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies (Gergely Orosz) Interesting.
What is MCP Really? (Tomas Fernandez) Simple explanation.
I want to see the claw (Vicki Boykis) "software that is elegant, well-built, considered and thoughtful. Software that is joyful to use. Software that helps me."

What is USSD (and who cares)? (Dr. Werner Vogels) "As builders, it’s our job to abstract away the complex, to find elegant solutions for hard problems."