04-Mar-2024 Content of Interest

Software

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)

Talks - Andrew Godwin: Reconciling Everything (rednafi) The reconciliation loop
Muse retrospective (andyc) Even with the best management, marketing, and technology, startups are hard!
How to Stay Grounded Through Organizational Chaos (Rebecca Knight) Timely!
EffVer: Version your code by the effort required to upgrade (tacaswell) Alternative to SemVer and CalVer that "communicates how much effort I expect a user will need to spend to adopt the new version".

Curing MedTech’s Cybersecurity Contagion - MedCity News "a proven playbook for implementing multi-layered, security-by-design strategies"

Will AI Replace All Coders? (Peter Diamandis) "AI is Democratizing Coding"
Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing (kaycebasques) Exploit vs. Explore
Why Candidates Don’t Trust Recruiting (Ted Neward) "A complete lack of visibility into the recruiting process..."
Cynicism is the mind-killer (Forrest Brazeal) "I believe that building good things is good." 👍

Samsung wins de novo nod for watch that detects sleep apnea (Nick Paul Taylor) "a feature designed to detect significant breathing disruptions over a two-night monitoring period"
FDA-Cleared SaMD by the Numbers - MedTech Intelligence