The first part of Summer has been great and holiday season is near. Here’s monthly notes for June with topics of microservices, kubernetes, design patterns and stories of how Shopify and Airbnb build their services. Also some tools like Kap. Happy reading.
Issue 31, 28.6.2018
Microservices
7 tips for effective microservices
“Have a request-id/correlation-id for every request, Maintain backward compatibility of interfaces, Have a centralized logging system, Implement idempotency and retries, Be aware of language constraints, Have a single service to manage the system state, Strike a balance between in-memory-data and db persistence” (from The Microservice Weekly)
Kubernetes
AWS Workshop for Kubernetes
“Self-paced workshop designed for Development and Operations teams who would like to leverage Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS).”
Kubernetes best practices: terminating with grace
“This episode of “Kubernetes Best Practices,” let’s take a look at how you can help Kubernetes do its job more efficiently and reduce the downtime your applications experience.”
Kubernetes Chaos Engineering: Lessons Learned — Part 1
Kubernetes and containers for enterprise developers
“O’Reilly Media Podcast talks with JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud.”
iOS
xcprojectlint: A security blanket for Xcode project files
Would you like to automate some consistency in your Xcode project files with checks for settings defined at the project level (rather than in an xcconfig), missing files and empty file groups? This tool does exactly that, and more. Also, I like the way it’s described: “Provides a security blanket, ensuring neither your co-workers, nor git screw up your Xcode project file.” (from iOS Dev Weekly 353)
This app hacked the iPhone’s dual camera system, and you’ve never seen anything like it
Interesting: portrait mode collects 2D depth data along with the image itself. This app uses depth data to change the lightning source of photos after the fact. (from Weekend Reading)
Tools
Capture your screen
An open-source screen recorder built with web technology. Crafty for quick gif/mp4/webm/apng to issues, slack or other views.
Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator
How others are doing things
Shopify Infrastructure with Niko Kurtti
“Shopify has built its own platform-as-a-service on top of Kubernetes called Cloudbuddies. Niko Kurtti is a production engineer at Shopify joins the Software Engineering Daily show to describe Shopify’s infrastructure – how they run so many stores, how they distribute those stores across their infrastructure, and the motivation for building their own internal platform on top of Kubernetes.”
Building Services at Airbnb, Part 1
The first in a series on scaling service development, this article looks at the core structure, the Service IDL, underpinning the new Services Oriented Architecture at Airbnb.
Building Services at Airbnb, Part 2
The second in a series on scaling service development, this article looks at some of the key tooling that supports the new Services Oriented Architecture at Airbnb.
Design
Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design
“But what is good design?” It’s around structure, function and aesthetics. “Good design is as little design as possible” (from @sidebario)
Awesome design patterns
A curated list of software and architecture related design patterns. Software design pattern – A general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations.
Something Different
Cool Backgrounds
Collection of tools to create compelling, colorful images for blogs, social media, and websites. Beyond backgrounds, the images generated can be used as ? desktop wallpapers or cropped for ? mobile wallpapers.
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