Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
READMEs are a great idea, still
An ode to well-written READMEs. Detailed, but not overly so, and scannable with examples.
Operational convergence, for REPL-less languages like Go
Life without a REPL, and how to still be able to manipulate production which even has quite a few benefits over more one-off REPL-driven operations..
The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
On how software that survives first encounter with production tends to live longer than we think it should.
Idempotency: The `is_transient` property
Tweaking error handling in our idempotency layer with a new transience flag.
Code in database vs. code in application
In which we address the perennial question of when it’s appropriate to push domain logic into database stored procedures and triggers versus keeping it at the application layer.