Tag: monthly notes

Issue 57, 22.12.2022 Cloud Recap of AWS re:Invent 2022: An Honest Review“Properly assess whether all those announcements should mean anything to you; here’s the ultimate AWS re:Invent 2022 recap you were looking for.” (from CloudSecList) Web development State of Frontend in 2022“React is king, Svelte is gaining popularity, Typescript continues to make web development less…

Issue 56, 26.2.2021 Work life Researchers identify four causes of “Zoom fatigue” and their simple fixes“Those video calls are likely tiring you out.” tl;dr; Excessive amounts of close-up eye contact is highly intense.Seeing yourself during video chats constantly in real-time is fatiguing.Video chats dramatically reduce our usual mobility.… Jatka lukemista →

It’s a new year and let’s start it with Monthly notes. Something new and something old from the short tech notes. Let this year be good! Issue 55, 5.1.2021 Tools of the trade Awesome CIList of Continuous Integration services. There’s a bunch of them to choose, my favorites are: GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Google Cloud…

Working from home continues as COVID-19 still surges and if you yet haven’t checked your video call capabilities, read the How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face article. The remote working isn’t going away as this year has shown that pendeling to offices every day isn’t really needed.… Jatka lukemista →

Issue 52, 9.9.2020 Software development Field Ops Guide“The Field Ops Guide (by Futurice) is a booklet that makes it possible to survive a software development project. It’s a distillation of years of wisdom gathered working in client projects.” Kubernetes Threat matrix for Kubernetes“While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges that should…

Issue 50, 15.6.2020 Serverless AWS Lambda — should you have few monolithic functions or many single-purposed functions?Interesting question of if single responsibility principle (SRP) should be followed in the serverless world. What is a “function” if not SRP? TL;DR; many single-purposed functions are better. Stories Twitter search of “telling early-in-career engineers stories of times you…

Working From Home edition. Issue 49, 27.3.2020 Conferences Now that COVID-19 has all of us in corontine and working from home, also the technology conferences have been moved to online and free. Here’s some. WFHConfWorking From Home Conf with talks from technology to projects, best practices, lessons learned and about working from home.… Jatka lukemista…

This time monthly notes is for learning Node.js best practices and some interesting approaches for (Node.js) software architecture. Happy reading and be a better developer! Issue 48, 25.2.2020 Learning Docker and Node.js Best Practices talk at DockerCon 2019Slides and Examples . tl;dr; Use even numbered LTS releases; Don’t use :latest tag; Use Debian:slim/stretch or Alpine;…