“Kotlin and Rust have one other thing in common, however, which is that their popularity with developers bumped them up one spot each in this quarters rankings – Rust to 19, Kotlin to 18.”
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021 https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/03/01/language-rankings-1-21/
‘We have found that the programming model of “microservices that trigger workflows that orchestrate serverless functions” to be a powerful paradigm.’ (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhbA54
AFAIU the diagram, there’s a streaming service between each of the API, rules engine, and function. I don’t think they’re directly invokable. I’m thinking the trace graph is going to be really important 😀.
“Architecture isn’t an equation but rather a snapshot of an ongoing process.”
http://nealford.com • Architecture is abstract until operationalized. http://nealford.com/memeagora/2015/03/30/architecture_is_abstract_until_operationalized.html
“In this paper we lay out an agenda for a new generation of cloud programming research aimed at bringing research ideas to programmers in an evolutionary fashion.”
“I abstracted my domain knowledge as a fine artist into variables and functions in order to reveal color selection as being logical, predictable, and driven by principles anyone can learn.”
Practical Color Theory for People Who Code http://tallys.github.io/color-theory/
“The single most important takeaway from this multi-year effort is that well-thought-out code composition, early in a project’s lifetime, is essential.”
Atlas: Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform - Dropbox https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/atlas--our-journey-from-a-python-monolith-to-a-managed-platform
“While the digital files themselves are infinitely reproducible, the NFTs representing them are tracked on their underlying blockchains and provide buyers with proof of ownership.”
“Today, however, Slack added a feature that allows anyone in the world with a paid account to send a direct message request to any other Slack user in the world.”
I think they’ve received some constructive feedback about that oversight: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/slack-promises-to-update-easy-to-abuse-connect-dm-feature/
