Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Chesterton's Fence

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Among the fascinating concepts I came across while reading a book about software engineering for long-lived code is " Chesterton's ...

The boy who would live forever by Frederik Pohl

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I enjoyed this story, despite the plot contrivances, 3/5 Stars.
Monday, May 24, 2021

10 best practices for remote software engineering by Vanessa Sochat

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This relatively long article in the Communications of the ACM (CACM) article explains the top best practices, habits, and sensibilities for...

Flow Framework by Mik Kersten

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For large tech organizations falling into a death spiral of technical debt, this framework offers some hope.  Tech organizations optimize fo...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Cautionary Story of Services Mesh pitfalls, failures

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Eric Fossas posted this horror story of istio failures and weaknesses and warnings about linkerd to which he switched.  He does not even men...

Escape Route by Peter F Hamilton

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Interesting story in one of Hamilton's universes, not bad, not great.  It's a little too dense and the magic system is not good.  3/...

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Fantastic, better than his first two books, 5/5 Stars, highly recommended!
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Software Engineering at Google

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This book is really interesting.  There are many details not only of the policies, patterns, practices, and interesting scale at Google, but...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

GitOps Con 2021

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The GitOps conference 2021 has posted all their talks on YouTube . Enjoy.

SQLite databases on static web sites such as github.io

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This capability and technology is very cool!