Plus a VS Code extension to give you a break, 'low-coding' apps, and COBOL developers are the hotness again.
This issue is curiously story heavy, but you're up for that, right? Whether it's recovering money from encrypted zip files, slipping into Slack's network, or why Unix packages have the names they have, we've got something for you this week 😄 |
StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. | ▶ On 'Good Enough' Architecture — A 40 minute talk on software architecture looking at situations where architecture was too elaborate or too simple and how we can learn to hit the 'sweet spot' for our own projects. As one commenter says: "One of the best talks I heard about the important balance between centralization and autonomy in the age of DevOps and microservices." Stefan Tilkov |
| A Tale of Recovering $300K of Bitcoin — A fun story because it starts out talking about how Microsoft Word 97 and PKZIP encrypted things before showing how this knowledge helped recover a significant amount of Bitcoin accessed by keys stored in an encrypted .zip file. Mike Stay |
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▶ Get ready for your next role: Pluralsight is free for the entire month of April. Stay Home. Skill Up. #FreeApril — SPONSORED | Code is Engineering, Types are Science — You can divide reasoning into three complementary processes: deduction, abduction and induction. This post shows how each relates to software. Juan Raphael Diaz Simões |
| MUST, SHOULD, DON'T CARE: TCP Conformance in the Wild — If you've ever read an RFC, you'll be familiar that standards govern what terms like SHOULD and MUST mean when implementing protocols or clients for them. The authors of this academic paper decided to see just how well Internet hosts and paths conform to the essential MUST requirements outlined in major protocol RFCs. Kosek, Blöcher, Rüth, et al. |
| A Funny Bit About Microservices — Warning: This is humor! A quick 3 minute look behind the scenes of a meeting about microservices that might seem like humor or a documentary, depending on how your own company works. KRAZAM |
| How GOV.UK Notify Reliably Sends Text Messages to Users — The folks behind the UK government's Internet presence send between 100-200k text messages a day to notify users of various things or for 2FA codes. This doesn't go into a lot of detail, but explains how they keep things balanced. David McDonald |
| Choosing Between Rust or Go? — Damien Stanton has worked with both Go and Rust and presented on the subject. As with all of these discussions, there is no final choice but the insights are interesting. Hatchpad |
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