README.md

lousy-list

My lousy awesome list, which consists of things I actually use or am interested in using.

Culture

• Building A Generative Engineering Culture
• Blameless Postmortems

Architecture

Being an architect

• Architecture Decision Records
• Thoughtworks Tech Radar
• Architect Elevator

Things That Make Your Job Hard

• Conway's Law

Overcoming Challenges

• Inverse Conways's Law
• Elevating The Constraint
• Mikado Method

System Design

• System Design Primer
• 3 Pillars Of Observability

Metrics

• The 4 Key DevOps Metrics

Techniques

12 Factor Apps

• 12 Factor App Manifesto
• 12 Fractured Apps

Immutability

• WIP - need to add items on how immutability benefits design and maintainability

Software Design

• Neal Ford On Emergent Design
• 8th Light - Inside out TDD vs Outside In
• Advantages of Outside In Development
• Test Driven Design
• Triple Threat to Testing - Speed
• TDD the RITE Way
• TDD, where did it all go wrong
• Tests' Influence on Design

Observability

• WIP - need to add some info on distributed tracing, logging, and metrics. Might include something on service probes with prometheus blackbox exporter as well

Control Your Own Destiny

Infrastructure As Code

Terraform

• Test-driven Terraform
• Open Policy Agent - Terraform Testing
• Salesforce - Terraform Policy Sentry

Configuration As Code

• WIP - might add something about ansible or maybe torch this and add something about immutable infrastructure

CI/CD

• WIP - need to add some material on philosophy and techniques

Researching Solutions

• CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

Currently Experimenting With

• Localstack

Kubernetes

Intro

• Docker and containers made simple
• Illustrated Guide To Kubernetes

Tools

Load Testing

• Artillery