Blogs

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-23.


Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster - Tablet Magazine

Tags: complexity, philosophy, economics, politics, ecology, commons

An excellent piece about the links between collapse and complexity. Obviously focuses more on socio-economics systems. Still some of it applies to other fields.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/why-complex-systems-collapse-faster


The collapse of complex software | Read the Tea Leaves

Tags: tech, architecture, complexity

Interesting view on the state of our industry regarding complexity. Don’t despair!

https://nolanlawson.com/2022/06/09/the-collapse-of-complex-software/


Fallacies of Distributed Systems

Tags: tech, architecture, microservices, networking, complexity

The current microservices obsession not only invite undue complexity in systems, it also bring unprepared developers into network related traps. This is a nice summary of the common misconceptions around this.

https://architecturenotes.co/fallacies-of-distributed-systems/


A New Definition of HTTP

Tags: tech, http

This is a good thing that the corresponding RFCs keeps being updated.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/06/06/http-core


Introduction | sake

Tags: tech, self-hosting

Looks like an interesting tool to simply manage personal servers.

https://sakecli.com/


#NoEstimates (Allen Holub) - YouTube

Tags: tech, agile, estimates

Old video. A bit preachy, especially in the beginning, but then covers well the arguments of why counting stories is likely better than estimating them. In my opinion there’s a catch that is not covered here though: the quality and granularity of the stories matter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QVBlnCTu9Ms


Help Geeks Feel Safe In The World: My Personal Mission

Tags: work, life

Yet another inspiring piece by Kent Beck. I like his blunt honesty and self-reflection.

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/help-geeks-feel-safe-in-the-world-my-personal-mission-a3968a94dff5


Lift Energy Storage System: Turning skyscrapers into gravity batteries

Tags: energy, gravity, physics, surprising

OK, this is clever and surprising. Still it is an interesting prospect. We’ll see how far this goes.

https://newatlas.com/energy/lift-energy-skyscraper-batteries/



Bye for now!