๐Ÿ“ฐ Monthly digests: February 2024

by Dmytro Litvinov

๐Ÿ“ฐ Monthly digests: February 2024

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  1. โš”๏ธ UUID Benchmark War
    Should we already start using uuid v7 in our projects? ๐Ÿค”
    Also, I found another article Benchmark: Snowflake vs UUIDv4
  2. ๐Ÿ“ก The Thoughtworks Technology Radar - What the Tech Radar is!
    In previous ๐Ÿ“ฐ Monthly digests: April 2023 it was mentioned so it is worth reading "how" to read that Technology Radar ๐Ÿ˜€
  3. ๐Ÿ— Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup
    Kinda an interesting article in the context of Enterprise-level projects where k8s is a primary tool. For sure there are interesting options.
    P.S. With SealesSecret that's true!
  4. ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป All the resources you need to get to Senior Engineer and beyond
    I like section Staying up-to-date on 2 newsletter already subscribed and it is fantastic newsletters to get around the news in tech: Pointer and Hungry Minds.
  5. ๐Ÿ“Š The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023
    Good report from JetBrains
  6. ๐Ÿ’ธ How Stripe Does Rate Limiting
    Stripe is a payments processing service where you can use their API in your web app to collect payments from your users. Like every other API service, they have to put in strict rate limits to prevent a user from spamming too many requests. (c)
  7. โ˜ Examples of Great URL Design
    Liked the way of the marketing campaign Slack had used URLs.
    Right now https://slack.com/is/team-communication redirects to https://slack.com/features
  8. ๐Ÿงน Handling Process Debt in IT by Vadim Kravcenko
    The goal of this essay was to showcase that not only IT suffers from technical debt, but also the management suffers from organizational debt. (c)
  9. ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ 6 tiny wording tweaks to level up your communication as a software engineer
    When I read it was open, but right now seems only available for paid. But you can read it Web Archive
  10. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ How to ship fast
  11. ๐Ÿš€ Getting started with Web Performance
    Good article explaining Core Web Vitals. Nothing new as for me here, but just as an additional here to remind that Web Performance is important.
  12. ๐ŸŽจ The Python dictionary dispatch pattern
    Used that once when I worked on a project creating a Chat application using django-channels ๐Ÿค”
  13. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Bash One-Liners for LLMs
    * Image Summarization
    * Filename Generation
    * URL Summarization
    and more ๐Ÿ‘€
  14. ๐Ÿฆ† Type hinting in modern Python: The Protocol class
  15. ๐Ÿงช AB Testing 101
    What I wish I knew about AB testing when I started my career (c)
    Listened to podcast with Jason Fried (CEO of BaseCamp) and he said that they will not run AB testing after purchase for example (when you need to redirect immediately to Dashboard for example or show an additional page "Thank you page". He said he would never do that because they know that saying "thanks" to customers is something that they would ALWAYS do without using AB testing.
  16. ๐Ÿฅฌ The Fanout Pattern Explained
    The fanout pattern is a single task replacing itself with a variable number of other tasks (c)