14th December 2020

Distributed systems

• Miia Niemelä - Lessons learned from combining SQS and Lambda in a data project
• Adam Warski - Evaluating persistent, replicated message queues (2020 edition)
• Gergerly Oros - Operating a Large, Distributed System in a Reliable Way: Practices I Learned
• Jimmy Bogard - Building End-to-End Diagnostics: ActivitySource and OpenTelemetry 1.0
• Kevin Sookocheff - Dissecting SQS FIFO Queues — Does Ordered and Exactly Once Messaging Really Exist?

Architecture

• Gojko Adzic - How serverless impacts design

Coding Life

• Joel Spolsky - Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• Gergerly Oros - What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
• Dominik Jeske - Pull Requests
• Michael Lynch - How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

Industry

• The Verge - Casey Newton - How Microsoft crushed Slack

Tools

• Nader Dabit - 11 Beautiful VS Code Themes for 2021

Security

• FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack, Actions to Protect Community