Tags: web-review, http, surprising, architecture, tech, estimates, ecology, energy, complexity, work, physics, philosophy, economics, gravity, networking, agile, self-hosting, politics, microservices, life, commons
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2022-23.
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
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/
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/
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
Tags: tech, self-hosting
Looks like an interesting tool to simply manage personal servers.
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
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
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!