19th February 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Implementing Closing the Books pattern
• Eric Evans, Dave Farley - How AI Will Change Software Development In The Next 10 Years
• vjeux - End-to-End Encryption in the Browser
• Ivar Jacobson, Alistair Cockburn - Use-Case Foundation
• Michael Nygard - Consequences are not Pros or Cons
• The Serverless Edge - SCORP – the well-architected tool for Architecture Reviews
• Gregor Hohpe - Debugging Architects

DevOps

• Bit - A build system for development of composable software

Databases

• Developer Voices Podcast - Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen)

AI

• The Verge - Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

AWS

• Yan Cui - How would you reprocess Lambda dead-letter queue messages on demand?
• Steef-Jan Wiggers - AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption

Azure

• Mattias Karlsson - Introducing ARI. A DevOps tool to document a Azure tenant resources
• Microsoft - Announcing general availability of Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams meeting recordings
• Microsoft - End of SSH-RSA support for Azure Repos

Java

• Nicolai Parlog - Data Oriented Programming in Java 21
• Paul Sandoz - Emulating C# LINQ in Java using Code Reflection

.NET

• Microsoft - Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8
• Nick Chapsas - Build Clean Messaging in .NET with Wolverine
• Jeremy D. Miller - Answering Some Concerns about Wolverine
• Andrew Lock - 8 ways to set the URLs for an ASP.NET Core app
• CSharpier - An opinionated code formatter for c#

Node.js

• Node.js - Native test runner
• Sarah Gooding - Node.js Community Debate Intensifies Over Enabling Corepack by Default and Potentially Unbundling npm

Windows

• Microsoft - Introducing Sudo for Windows!

Coding Life

• Gergely Orosz - Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?

Management

• Cliff Hazell - The one thing nobody copies from Spotify
• Matthew Roche - Being a PM at Microsoft: Thriving in ambiguity
• Forbes - CEOs Are Using Return To Office Mandates To Mask Poor Management
• The Register - Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

Industry

• Matthew Ball - On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed

Security

• Virgil Security - Essential security platform for your product
• Mateusz Jendza - Time for Passwordless

Trivia

• Jason Grigsby - Handling Death Gracefully in Digital Experiences

12th February 2024

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Architecture

• George Ball - Achieving High Throughput Without Sacrificing Latency
• Luc van Donkersgoed - The single-tenancy to multi-tenancy spectrum
• Microsoft - Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints using containers
• Wim Debreuck - Event Driven Architecture & Governance in action
• Martin Schimak - Tackling Complex Event Flows
• Eric Evans, Dave Farley - Applying DDD Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
• Nick Tune - Architecting for Independent Value Streams
• Tim Wellhausen, Andreas Fießer - How to write a pattern? A rough guide for first-time pattern authors
• Neil B. Harrison - Advanced Pattern Writing. Patterns for Experienced Pattern Authors

DevOps

• Gregor Hohpe - Application architecture as code

Testing

• clumsy - Makes your network condition on Windows significantly worse, but in a controlled and interactive manner

Azure

• Paul Reardon - Azure free offerings
• Microsoft - A/B Testing Infrastructure Changes at Microsoft ExP

Go

• Mat Ryer - How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years

Java

• Devoxx Belgium - Ask the Java Architects By Sharat Chander, Alan Bateman, Stuart Marks, Viktor Klang, Brian Goetz

.NET

• Tim Deschryver - Translating Exceptions into Problem Details Responses
• Fga.Net - OpenFGA & Auth0 FGA for ASP.NET Core + Worker Services
• Reqnroll - Open-source Cucumber-style BDD test automation framework for .NET
• Cronos - Fully-featured .NET library for working with Cron expressions. Built with time zones in mind and intuitively handles daylight saving time transitions

Node.js

• Oskar Dudycz - Announcing Emmett! Take your event-driven applications back to the future!
• Emmett - a Node.js library taking your event-driven applications back to the future!

Performance

• MIT - Performance Engineering of Software Systems Course

Management

• Cliff Hazell - The one thing nobody copies from Spotify

Industry

• Tech Policy Press - The Dangers of Moving Key Internet Governance Functions to Amazon’s Cloud: The Case of the Netherlands

Security

• ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you
• The Hacker News - Hackers Exploit Job Boards, Stealing Millions of Resumes and Personal Data
• ArsTechnica - Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown
• Information is beautiful - World's Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks

Trivia

• Paul Graham - Life is Short

5th February 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Production-Grade Event Sourcing Workshop - Modelling, DevOps, Process
• RevenueCat - Scaling smoothly: RevenueCat’s data-caching techniques for 1.2 billion daily API requests
• Lastminute.com - Evolution of a high-performance system: from synchronous to seamless scalability
• Alex Strachan - Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency
• Alistair Cockburn - Hexagonal Architecture from its Inventor
• Ian Cooper - Adopting Polyglot Flow
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation - Announces the Graduation of CloudEvents
• SingleStone - New Miro Templates for Domain-Driven Discovery
• Jeff Atwood - When Understanding means Rewriting
• Kris Van Vlaenderen - 5 pitfalls to avoid when implementing an Event-Driven Architecture

DevOps

• Charity Majors - Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering

Databases

• Greg Wilson - SQL for Data Scientists in 100 Queries

Testing

• Microsoft - APIs testing using HTTP files and Rest Client
• Hillel Wayne - I have complicated feelings about TDD

AI

• LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• Rachel Coldicutt - Is it possible for general purpose AI to do no harm?

.NET

• Kyle Kukshtel - So You Wanna Package Some Native Libs Into A NuGet Package
• Nicholas Blumhardt - SerilogTracing
• Charles Chen - .NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels
• Egil Hansen - Testing .NET Web APIs from A to Z

Node.js

• Yoni Goldberg - The Node.js best practices list

Smalltalk

• Alec Sharp - Smalltalk By Example

TypeScript

• Christian Woerz - A Deep Dive into Advanced TypeScript: A Live Coding Expedition

Management

• Avraham Poupko - You can’t fight Conway’s law
• Jamie McDonald - Roadmaps are tools
• Sam-Nicolai Johnston - Improving Delivery Rate by Subtasking

Industry

• ArsTechnica - Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

Security

• Cloudflare - Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

29th January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - How TypeScript can help in modelling business workflows
• Fathom Analytics - Reducing our AWS bill by $100,000
• Pierre Pureur - How Much Architecture Is “Enough?”: Balancing the MVP and MVA Helps You Make Better Decisions
• Discord - Maxjourney: Pushing Discord’s Limits with a Million+ Online Users in a Single Server
• Jack Vanlightly - The advantages of queues on logs
• Andrea Medda, Matt Boyle - Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages
• Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz - Ports and Adapters Pattern
• Cyrille Martraire - Domain modeling with monoids
• Mario Bittencourt - Why AsyncAPI Matters — Bridging the Gap in API Documentation — Part I
• Eduardo da Silva - Towards Architecture Organization Topologies for Sustainable Fast Flow of Change
• Nick Tune - Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team

DevOps

• Bernard Pietraga - Practical solutions for dealing with high cardinality metrics
• Dreams of Code - Using docker in unusual ways

Databases

• Gwen Shapira - The Rise of the Serverless Data Architectures
• QuestDB - An open source time-series database for fast ingest and SQL queries
• Alicja Kucharczyk: Leveraging pgBadger for Effective PostgreSQL Troubleshooting
• PopSQL - How to Calculate Cumulative Sum-Running Total in PostgreSQL

AI

• The Motte - ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023
• Wired - Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

.NET

• Joel Verhagen - The fastest CSV parser in .NET
• Aaron Stannard - How to Distribute Roslyn Analyzers via NuGet
• Microsoft - Introducing the MSTest Runner – CLI, Visual Studio, & More
• .NET Team - Eventing Framework in .NET 9

Node.js

• TypeBox - Json Schema Type Builder with Static Type Resolution for TypeScript

Product Design

• Oskar Dudycz - When Agile is not enough
• Henrik Kniberg - Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable
• Rik Higham - The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT.

Management

• Simon Wardley - Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners
• Bjarte Bogsnes - Hitting the target but missing the point - myths about target setting
• Atlassian - Lessons Learned: 1,000 Days of Distributed at Atlassian

Industry

• John Gruber - Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its Commissions From Third-Party iOS Apps
• ArsTechnica - Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming
• The Markup - Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

22nd January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Stream ids, event types prefixes and other event data you might not want to slice off
• Andreas Pinhammer - DDD in large product portfolios
• Slack - Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture
• Pete Hodgson - Tech Debt Walls
• Netflix - Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices
• Phil Calçado - Pattern: Using Pseudo-URIs with Microservices
• MongoDB - A Comprehensive Guide to Data Modeling
• MongoDB - Data Modeling for MongoDB
• InfoQ - The InfoQ Trends Reports 2023 eMag
• Ryan Shriver - Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery
• C.ristian Axenie, O. López-Corona, M. A. Makridis, M. Akbarzadeh, M. Saveriano, A. Stancu, J. West - Antifragility as a complex system's response to perturbations, volatility, and time
• Barry M O’Reilly - An Introduction to Residuality Theory: Software Design Heuristics for Complex Systems
• GitHub - Our move to generated SDKs

DevOps

• Garrit Franke - Cost per Request
• Martin Fowler - Continuous Integration

Frontend

• Tomasz Ducin - Signals are VALUES, not EVENTS
• The AHA Stack - Combine Astro, htmx and Alpine.js to create modern web applications sending HTML over the wire, replacing the SPA JS-heavy approach with a much simpler set of mental models and workflows.

Hardware

• Roy Longbottom - Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets

AI

• A. Tornhill, M. Borg, E. Mones - Refactoring vs Refuctoring: Advancing the state of AI-automated code improvements

AWS

• InfoQ - AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, Their Sole Relational Database with Scaling Capacity to Zero

Azure

• Piotr Krukowski - Azure Cosmos DB RBAC and passwordless authentication

Java

• Johannes Bechberger - Hello eBPF: Developing eBPF Apps in Java (1)

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Building a Critter Stack Application: Messaging with Rabbit MQ
• Cezary Piątek - Mocking GraphQL queries with WireMock.NET
• The Hanselminutes Podcast - ASP.NET Basics for Experts with Layla Porter
• .NET Rocks - .NET 8 Migration with Jimmy Bogard

TypeScript

• Wojciech Baczyński - Branding & Flavoring

Coding Life

• Ketan Bhatt - Don’t be the Alpha Geek: Your team deserves better

Management

• Ted Neward - We Need to Talk. If we can't use this, what do we use instead?

Industry

• BBC News - Post Office scandal explained: What the Horizon saga is all about
• Wikipedia - British Post Office scandal

15th January 2024

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Architecture

• Martin Schimak - Talk Session: Know the Flow! Events, Commands & Long-Running Services
• Nick Tune - Beyond Problem and Solution Space: Better models for modern product development
• Maciej 'MJ' Jedrzejewski - Mastering Strategic Domain-Driven Design – 6. Context Map
• Simon Wardley - Wardley Maps and Cynefin
• Leslie Lamport - Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• The Seattle Times - Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
• Gartner - Software Engineering Predicts 2024: Leadership During Disruption

DevOps

• OpenTofu - OpenTofu is going GA
• Awesome Self-Hosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
• Julia Evans - Some notes on NixOS

AI

• ArsTechnica - UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
• Einar W. Høst - The AI Puppet Dance
• Mike Loukides - Can Language Models Replace Compilers? Don’t get your hopes up
• Karawynn Long - Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence
• Futurism - Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like "I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy"

C

• Stephen Kell - Some Were Meant for C.The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language

Functional Programming

• Tomas Petriceka - What we talk about when we talk about monads

JavaScript

• Feross Aboukhadijeh - When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024

.NET

• João Antunes - A .NET parallel Kafka consumer proof of concept (feat. Akka.NET and the actor model)
• Falco.Htmx - An experimental Falco integration with htmx JS package.
• Andrew Lock - A brief look at StringValues
• Gérald Barré - Making primary constructor parameters read-only

Tools

• Jacqui Read - How to get started with Obsidian Dataview and DataviewJS
• Everything curl - an extensive guide for all things curl.
• Cloudglare Website Analytics - Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics—for free

Coding Life

• Steph Ango - Don't specialize, hybridize
• Salem Group - Unlocking the Secrets of T-Shaped and V-Shaped Employees: How to Position Yourself for Career Success
• Vanderbilt University - Just-in-Time Teaching
• M. Gupta, A. Sharma - Fear of missing out: A brief overview of origin, theoretical underpinnings and relationship with mental health

Management

• Luxshan Ratnaravi — A puppy dies when agile meets reality

Industry

• Rand Fishkin - Google, Apple, and Amazon Stifle Innovation When They Favor Their Own Products
• The Register - Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers
• The Verge - Unity is laying off 25 percent of its staff
• The Verge - Amazon lays off more than 500 employees in its Twitch unit

Trivia

• The Washington Post - No one had ever ‘beat’ Tetris. Then came a 13-year-old phenom.

8th January 2024

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Not all issues are complex, some are complicated. Here's how to deal with them
• Leslie Lamport - A Science of Concurrent Programs
• Dave Snowden - Complex Adaptive Systems
• Thomas Pierrain - Discover ReBAC, the next-generation authorization model compatible with DDD
• Steve Sanderson - Keynote: Where Web Tech is Going Now
• Jake Lazaroff - The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist
• Gunnar Morling - Seven Ways to Put CDC to Work
• Shopify - Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern
• Indi Young - Why Problem Space?

Testing

• Scott Wlaschin - The lazy programmer's guide to writing thousands of tests

DevOps

• Google - Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 7: Software Quality
• Sean Trane - GitHub Labels that are logical, colorful and sensible
• Dennis Doomen - 22 reasons to ditch Azure DevOps and switch to GitHub as soon as possible

AWS

• Yan Cui - This is why you should keep stateful and stateless resources together

Java

• JVM Weekly - Everything you might have missed in Java in 2023 – JVM Weekly vol. 66

.NET

• Vogen - A semi-opinionated library which is a source generator and a code analyser. It Source generates Value Objects
• Fluid - An open-source .NET template engine based on the Liquid template language.
• Cezary Piątek - Common Setup and Teardown in dotnet tests without test framework magic
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - Faster .NET Database Integration Tests with Respawn and xUnit

Node.js

• Nick Scialli - How to use HTTP2 with Express.js and test it locally

TypeScript

• TSDocs.dev - Browse type documentation for JS libraries

Management

• Charity Mayors - Becoming An Engineering Manager Can Make You Better At Life And Relationships
• Gergely Orosz - Inside Stripe’s Engineering Culture - Part 1

Product Design

• David Bland - An Introduction to Experiment Pairing

Industry

• Financial Times - Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’
• Armin Ronacher - The Life and Death of Open Source Companies
• Josef Průša - The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023

Security

• Jason Koebler - Polish Hackers Say Manufacturer's Repair DRM Killed Train's Power, Broke Compressor
• The Verge - Microsoft is overhauling its software security after major Azure cloud attacks

1st January 2024

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Architecture

• Florian Bellmann - You are never taught how to build quality software
• Denise Yu - Why are Distributed Systems so hard? A network partition survival guide
• Dave Snowden - Patterns all the way down
• Alessio Coser - Escaping the magics of the frameworks: 5. The framework

DevOps

• CoRecursive - Platform Takes The Pain The Inside Story of Spotify's Engineering Growth

AI

• Martin Krasser - Implementing JSON mode for open LLMs
• Rafal Gancarz - Griffin 2.0: Instacart Revamps Its Machine Learning Platform
• GitHub - GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals

Java

• Vlad Mihalcea - The best way to map multiple entities on the same table
• Sirisha Pratha - Spring Boot 3.2 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Modern RestClient and JdbcClient

.NET

• Jeremy D. Miller - Building a Critter Stack Application: Durable Outbox Messaging and Why You Care!
• Ian Russell - Discriminated Unions in C#
• Milan Jovanović - Global Error Handling in ASP.NET Core 8
• Michael Shpilt - How to Debug LINQ queries in C#

Rust

• Iggy.rs - building message streaming in Rust.

Tools

• Scott McKendry - The 5 Stages of Vim: A Humbling Experience

Coding Life

• Oskar Dudycz - What Dune can tell us about setting our goals
• Barry Overeem - Programmer- or Product Developer? Why The Difference Matters!
• CoRecursive Podcast - Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow with Ben Dumke-von der Ehe

Management

• Jeff Gothelf - Roadmaps are linear. Software projects aren’t.
• Jeff Wofford - How to Boss Without Being Bossy
• Stephen P. Anderson - Toward A New Model for Corporate Learning and Development (Part 1)

Industry

• Justin Garrison - Amazon's Silent Sacking
• Adrian Cockcroft - Signs that it’s time to leave a company…
• The Verge - The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
• Axios - Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity

Security

• Debian Public Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive

Trivia

• Dan Luu - How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
• TechDirt - Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign

25th December 2023

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Architecture

• Andrea Magnorsky - Knowledge sharing is Systems building
• Pete Hodgson - Expand/Contract: making a breaking change without a big bang
• Yan Cui - How to perform database migration for a live service with no downtime
• Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
• Oddly Influenced Podcast - Interview: Glenn Vanderburg on engineering
• Stefan Tilkov - Practical (a.k.a. Actually Useful) Architecture
• Einar Høst — Agile and Architecture: a meeting of the undead
• Julien Topçu, Josian Chevalier - Model Mitosis
• McDonald's Technical Blog - Hexagonal Architectures — the sequel

DevOps

• Martin Thwaites - Building a secure OpenTelemetry Collector
• Kubernetes Unpacked Podcast - Kubernetes Long-Term Support With Kubernetes Co-Founder Brendan Burns

Databases

• Gwen Shapira - Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained
• Jepsen - MySQL 8.0.34
• Rajendra Gupta - Table Partitioning in Azure SQL Database
• Branimir Lambov, Shylaja Kokoori - Memtable Pluggability and Alternate Memtables (CEP-11 & CEP-19) in Cassandra

Frontend

• Netlify - Unveiling the state of web development and predictions for 2024 and beyond

AI

• Daily Beast - AI-Written Homework Is Rising. So Are False Accusations

Java

• A N M Bazlur Rahman - Stream API Evolution: a Closer Look at JEP 461's Stream Gatherers
• Inside Java - Introducing the Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code

.NET

• Oskar Dudycz - Why I won't use .NET Aspire for now
• Anthony Simmon - Exploring the Microsoft Developer Control Plane at the heart of the new .NET Aspire
• Khalid Abuhakmeh - MemoizR - Declarative Structured Concurrency for C#
• Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez - Revisiting WASM for F#
• Jeffrey Rennie - Turn your ASP.NET MVC/Razor Website into a SPA Without Blazor

Coding Life

• Jeff Atwood - The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
• Will Larson - Notes on How Big Things Get Done

Product Design

• The Logan Bartlett Show - Confluent’s Resilient Rise To Software Juggernaut with Jay Kreps
• Krisztina Hirth - Shifting from Projects to Feedback-Based Product Dev: Practical Tips and Insights
• Penpot - The Open-Source design & prototyping platform

Industry

• The Verge - Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma
• Figma - Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
• The Verge - 2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse

Trivia

• Northeastern Global News - Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say

18th December 2023

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Hitchhiker's Guide To Moving From Relational Data To Events
• Dave Farley - Engineering for Software
• Hillel Wayne - Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?
• EDA Summit - 2023 Summit Sessions
• Pierre Pureur - 12 Software Architecture Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
• Martin Kleppmann, Jesse Anderson - Designing A Data-Intensive Future: Expert Talk
• Graphite - Why we use AWS instead of Vercel to host our Next.js app
• Erik Wilde, Fran Mendez - AsyncAPI 3.0: What's new and should you upgrade?
• DDDUS Online Meetup - Alexander Miertsch - prooph board

DevOps

• Honeycomb - Observability Is About Confidence
• Gregor Hohpe - The Magic of Platforms
• Fly.io - Rethinking Serverless with FLAME

Databases

• Arslan Ahmad - Scaling SQL Databases: 8 Challenges of Horizontally Scaling SQL Databases
• Redis - Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)
• Oren Eini - Production Postmortem. The Spawn of Denial of Service

Frontend

• Scott Jehl - How to Use Responsive HTML Video (...and Audio!)
• Facebook - Introducing StyleX
• Dan Abramov - A Chain Reaction

Testing

• Kent Beck - Canon TDD

AI

• CNBC - How to stop Dropbox from sharing your personal files with OpenAI
• Simon Willison - The AI trust crisis

JVM

• Jean-Philippe Bempel - Chasing a Metaspace leak

.NET

• James Hickey - High-Performance .NET CRON Jobs
• Layla Porter - Cloud-native apps with .NET Aspire
• Damian Płaza - FSM - Functional State Machines
• Fiodar Sazanavets - Building your own audio player with .NET – part 1
• NDepend - .NET Native AOT Explained

Rust

• The Register - Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge

Coding Life

• Matt Wynne - Cognitive Load for Knowledge Work

Industry

• Hashicorp - Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
• TechCrunch - Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
• The Verge - Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

Security

• Kelly Shortridge - Cybersecurity Isn’t Special
• PromptArmor, Kai Greshake - Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection

Trivia

• Octavia E. Butler - A Few Rules For Predicting The Future