Plus why is Rust so popular, Pascal's resurgence in Turkey, and running C# apps on DOS.
StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. | JetBrains Mono: A Free and Open Source Typeface for Developers — On social media I notice that the topic of fonts is always a popular one with developers. JetBrains, the IDE folks, have released a new open source font for your IDE or terminal of choice and.. it's pretty nice. Very legible and includes monospace ligatures and italics too. JetBrains |
| What Is Rust and Why Is It So Popular? — If you've been reading this newsletter or other developer media over the past few years, you'll have seen Rust pop up a lot. But what does the Mozilla-formed safety first systems language have going for it? A lot! Jake Goulding |
 Do You Need Go, Docker or Kubernetes Training? — We offer on-site corporate training for engineers that want to learn Go, Docker and/or Kubernetes. Having trained over 5,000 engineers, we have carefully crafted these classes for students to get as much value as possible. Ardan Labs |
| The 'Year 2038 Problem' Is Already Causing Issues — In 2038, the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 (commonly used as an 'epoch' point) will exceed what can be stored in a signed 32 bit integer and this is A Problem™. Not only that, but it can be a problem now as seen in this Twitter thread. John Feminella on Twitter |
| Fargate vs Lambda — A comparison of AWS's serverless compute options on cost, performance, and ease of use. Jeff Carter (Trek10) |
| Letting Tools Make Choices — Jack is thinking about the process of working out which tools to use, why, and letting tools carry the 'burden' of choices you'd otherwise have to make yourself as a developer. Jack Franklin |
| Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery |
| DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. X-Team |
| How to Build a Complete Serverless Back End System — A complete start-to-end walkthrough at building an AWS Lambda powered backend complete with using S3 for storage and DynamoDB as a database. Aimed at those who haven't gone through the process before. Sam Williams |
| The History of HAProxy — HAProxy is my favorite TCP and HTTP load balancer but somehow I missed this post about HAProxy's origin story from late last year. An interesting read. Willy Tarreau |
| Intelligent DNS Based Load Balancing at Dropbox — The story behind how Dropbox and NS1 have optimized their DNS-based global load balancing system for corner cases uncovered while improving their point of presence (PoP) selection automation. Dropbox Tech Blog |
| Tiny Helpers: Single Purpose Online Tools for Developers — A growing collection of single-purpose online tools aimed at developers of all types. Covers things like base64 conversion, color management, favicon generators, CSS grid generators.. this site could be huge, to be fair, so consider contributing anything you have. Stefan Judis |
| Docker Desktop 2.2 Released — This will be of particular interest to Windows users, particularly if you're using WSL 2. Ben De St Paer-Gotch (Docker) |
❓ The 'State of Microservices' 2020 Survey |
How do you build microservices? This year we're helping out The Software House (for free – this isn't sponsored) by linking to their new State of Microservices survey. It launched last week, and is seeking your views on how you build microservices. It should take around five minutes to complete. |
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