Bookmarks (131)

The Law of Leaky Abstractions

joelonsoftware.com

leaky abstractions
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HTTPS explained with carrier pigeons

freecodecamp.org

Caesar cipher Certification Authority Man in the Middle Attack alice asymmetric key cryptography
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The Faker You Are, the More Successful You Can Be | InvisionApp Design Lead | Pablo Stanley

youtube.com

fake hype jargon
1
Heavy Clouds

idlewords.com

cloud complexity stack website-obesity
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Monoliths Are the Future

changelog.com
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Monitoring in the time of Cloud Native

medium.com

kubernetes logs metrics monitoring observability
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Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective - The New Stack

thenewstack.io

"When we blew up the monolith into many services, we lost the ability to step through...
"When we blew up the monolith into many services, we lost the ability to step through our code with a debugger: it now hops the network. Our tools are still coming to grips with this seismic shift."

apm cardinality granularity known-unknowns logs
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Metaswitch CTO sets the record straight on what "cloud native" really is

youtube.com

5:40 -> A network control plane like for example an IMS or the control plane of...
5:40 -> A network control plane like for example an IMS or the control plane of a 5G packet core, it's essentially a transaction processing engine. I mean you're getting messages coming in from from handsets or from phones or whatever requesting sessions and so on and you know it's conceptually not dissimilar to what building a web app is. You know --where people...

5G cloud-native culture practices telcos
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Why your programmers just want to code

hackernoon.com

culture enthusiasm introducing ideas risk technical debt
1
Why the fuss about serverless?

hackernoon.com

MTTR cloud serverless virtualization
1
Choose Boring Technology

mcfunley.com

boring technology innovation tokens known-unknowns shiny technology unknown-unknowns
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Adoption of Cloud-Native Architecture, Part 1: Architecture Evolution and Maturity

infoq.com

architecture & design cloud adoption development microservices serverless
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Microservices are not the destination

pivotal.io

pivotal.io is now: tanzu.vmware.com article migrated to: https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/intersect/microservices-are-not-your-destination

culture death-star architecture microservices process talent
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Mozilla Engineer track

twitter.com

I liked this post by @lethain about career goals a lot https://lethain.com/career-narratives/ …pic.twitter.com/kNjsjnOjjE

distinguished engineer engineer track principal enginner senior software engineer
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Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

hackernoon.com

seagull management technical debt vagueness
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How to attract great people

hedges.net

andy hedges carreer path listen politics purpose
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The microservices cargo cult - Stavros' Stuff

stavros.io

cargo-cult microservices
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What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices

youtube.com

conway's law microservices
1
Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices

youtube.com

cache cap-theorem cascading-failure conway's law microservices
1
Leadership Guide for the Reluctant Leader - David Neal

youtube.com

slides here: https://speakerdeck.com/reverentgeek/jazzcon-2018-closing-keynote-leadership-for-the-reluctant-leader

DiSC disk behavior assessment tool empathy humble-hungry-smart leadership
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Microservices Are Something You Grow into, Not Begin With

nickjanetakis.com

abstraction microservices monolith
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Are you a giver or a taker? | Adam Grant

youtube.com

giver matcher taker team
2
Heroes are Expensive - Extinguishing the Firefighting Culture

infoq.com

hero culture team teamwork
1
sadserver - javascript & waste heat

twitter.com

JavaScript appears to be the preferred method of turning electricity into waste heat.

humor javascript
1
jessfraz - integrity, honesty

twitter.com

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching. Dealing with actions versus...
Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching. Dealing with actions versus dealing with words. It is a guarantee of honesty.

honesty integrity
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Dijkstra - purpose of abstracting (The Humble Programmer)

utexas.edu

...the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level...
...the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer

Dijkstra abstraction
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John Chamberlain - computerized mess

twitter.com

Computerizing an existing mess ends up being a computerized mess.

mess
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wickett - complexity, simplicity & smart people

twitter.com

Complexity is what smart people do. Simplicity is what smart people who must live with the...
Complexity is what smart people do. Simplicity is what smart people who must live with the consequences of their design do.

complexity simplicity
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Benno Rice - The Tragedy of systemd

youtube.com

People have a complicated relationship with change. I like to say that nerds especially have a...
People have a complicated relationship with change. I like to say that nerds especially have a really complicated relationship with change. "We love it to pieces! Change is awesome... when we're the ones doing it..."

change
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rakyll - historical context, trade-offs

twitter.com

In tech we need a role where a person provides historical context and commentary on ongoing...
In tech we need a role where a person provides historical context and commentary on ongoing tradeoff discussions. That’s it, that’s the job.

trade-off
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codinghorror - pedantry

twitter.com

There's a ton of pedantry in programming. This may be confusing until you realize that programmers...
There's a ton of pedantry in programming. This may be confusing until you realize that programmers spend 8+ hours a day working with the world's most irritating pedant -- the computer. And the computer is .. kind of an a-hole to be honest.

pedantry
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