It was a fairly light weekend, but there is still plenty of good reading. At Twitter, they talk about observability, where they give us a technical overview of what they are doing. On Keeping It Classless, we get an interesting post about test-driven network automation. It is odd to see test automation in the world of networking, but it seems to work, so why not? On the Clean Coder Blog, Robert Martin has a rebuttal to the “giving up TDD” post that has been talked about recently. The summary is “you’re doing it wrong”, but it is a good read on how to not make some common mistakes.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- The Trouble with Career Sites | DaedTech
- Personal APIs: Not a Local Destination, but a Journey | DZone Integration
- Holacracy or Autocracy? Both! | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Lug-Nut Driven Development (LuDDite) | Ted Blackman
- Addressing the Api Consumption Side: 5 Predictions for 2016 & Beyond | DZone Integration
- Design Patterns: Observer Pattern | DZone Java
- Swift: Caveats for Structs as data models | Andyy Hope
- Functional architecture is Ports and Adapters | Mark Seemann
- Continuous Installation Checking | Third Bit
- Increase your dependencies | Ivan Drinchev
- Implementing an annotation interface | Java Code Geeks
- Rapid API Prototyping with Bottle.py | Born2Data
- Giving Up on TDD | Clean Coder Blog
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: Building a High Functioning Data Science Department | Stitch Fix Technology
- How we built Search at Kit | Kit Blog
- Observability at Twitter: technical overview, part I | Twitter Blogs
- Fast Search Using PostgreSQL Trigram Indexes | GitLab
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- The Power of Test-Driven Network Automation | Keeping It Classless
- Containers all the way through | Java Code Geeks
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – March 18, 2016 (#2211) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1660 | A Fresh Cup
- This Week in Spring – March 18th, 2016 | DZone Java
- Web Development Reading List #129: CSRF, Modern Tooling And The UX Of Web Fonts | Smashing Magazine
- Programming Digest #151 for March 21, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
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