Michael Bryzek - Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way

Very interesting talk about leveraging code generation to provide consistent APIs and code across all engineering teams in a company.

Curated list of youtube talks

A curated list of youtube talks worth watching as a software engineer. Note that this list is mainly for me so I will not forget.

I had to split this post into individual posts under the tag #talks.

State of software in 2018

It is now year 2018.

Last year has seen some large strides in our technological prowess. All the big companies are now making AI personal asistants, smartphones in our pockets are more powerful than ever, you can shoot videos in 4k resolution with 60 frames per second, you can use software to make your photos much better instead of having actual optics. It is surely great time to be alive.

Fail Fast

Do you remember all the posts about new businesses (read startups) need to fail fast (Business section)? Release first version as soon as possible to make them competitive? (insert peperidge farm meme here, haha)

Recently it seems to me like almost every company adopted this startup mentality in their products. While I understand the need to release your product before the competition does, I disagree with using the consumer of said product as a beta-tester.

Developer Notebook

First, a little bit of background. I’m a software developer. I use PC’s all day. I’ve been programming on Windows, Linux and MacOS devices. At first, I thought that I can’t live without “proper” keyboard and mouse combination and at least 2 external monitors.

This was when I was using Dell notebook with my ArchLinux. When my colleague switched to Macbook Air 13", and started cursing about how he hates it, I was pointing and laughing at him for using Apple product. When new update messed up something, I laughed again. Why use Apple garbage when you can use this awesome Dell notebook with Linux I said. Then I noticed he stopped using external keyboard and mouse, and was using just the notebook keyboard and trackpad. WHAT?! How can you do any serious work done on a laptop, and without a mouse?