Month summary — January 2023

A Look Into Ways We Use Terraform to Build Our Infrastructure

tl;dr Architecture is hard sometimes–people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream “way to do it” without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation. Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it’s time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what’s going on.

If you have the opportunity to give pairing-by-default a try, I highly recommend going for it. With this experience, I’m far, far more likely to jump into a call for something mundane “just because.” And that “just because” might even be because I’m feeling more social and have nothing to do with code.

Forgetting is key to learning. Forgetting is what separates what is useful and what is not. Sometimes, we want to make a piece of knowledge stick in memory despite what our memory thinks. Spaced Repetition is an effective solution to this problem and Anki is the most popular OSS tool to help you.

This was a sophisticated attack targeting employees and systems in such a way that we believe most organizations would be likely to be breached.

Nowadays an API Gateway is an essential component in designing a distributed system’s architecture with multiple API services or microservices. This post helps you understand what’s the API Gateway, when, and why to use it, and guides you on how to choose the best API Gateway solution for your applications.

Good meetings are the heartbeat for your organization.

Meetings are a critical tool for building a diverse, high-performance team with shared values

Hi, my name is JT. I’m a YouTube addict.

I know what you’re thinking. That sounds like a joke. That you want a funny punchline to go with it. Me too.

There are some things that many companies get right and a lot that many get wrong. So how do I think about designing APIs? What makes a good API?

Software design decisions should be time-aware.

I’ve been journaling for 10 years, and I can attest that using AI is journaling on steroids.

Hi! My name is Einar. I design and write software for a living, presumably like you. You could call me a software developer, a coder, a programmer, and also a software designer, I guess. Those are all things I do and labels that I’m comfortable with. I am not, however, a software craftsman. This blog post is about why.

Comprehensive overview of existing tools, strategies and thoughts on interacting with your data.

Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere.

W tym artykule poznasz kilka technik, z których korzystam lub miałem okazję k korzystać w przeszłości. Wpis opiera się na moich osobistych doświadczeniach więc niektóre techniki mogą nie sprawdzić się u Ciebie lub te, które u mnie nie sprawdziły się, u Ciebie mogą działać. W artykule zestawiłem techniki, które wykorzystuję zarówno w życiu zawodowym jak i prywatnym.

Welcome to the Python Graph Gallery, a collection of hundreds of charts made with Python. Charts are organized in about 40 sections and always come with their associated reproducible code.

This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage Python applications in as boring a way as possible.

Therefore I follow a specific set of practices which allows me to write better logs while also being consistent across the system.

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.

If you’re looking for questions to ask a software company, then here are a few to get you started. Keep in mind, these are not meant as “gotcha” questions. The point of them is to understand the company you would be joining, so you can make the best decision possible.

Learn how to use Django’s authentication system to log users in with an email instead of a username.

While writing this blog and leading Go teams for a couple of years, the most common question I heard from beginners was “What framework should I use?”. One of the worst things you can do in Go is follow an approach from other programming languages.

Go DDD example application. Complete project to show how to apply DDD, Clean Architecture, and CQRS by practical refactoring.

A collection of .gitignore templates.

HandleFinder is a powerful tool that can be used to find usernames across many social networks. This project is a wrapper around the Sherlock Project.

Feeder is a fully free/libre feed reader. It supports all common feed formats, including JSONFeed. It doesn’t track you. It doesn’t require any setup. It doesn’t even need you to create an account! Just setup your feeds, or import them from your old reader via OPML, then get on with syncing and reading.

See how the exact same Medium.com clone (called Conduit) is built using different frontends and backends. Yes, you can mix and match them, because they all adhere to the same API spec 😮😎

While most “todo” demos provide an excellent cursory glance at a framework’s capabilities, they typically don’t convey the knowledge & perspective required to actually build real applications with it.

One and only place to find a curated list of best commencement speeches.