I recently sat down with the brilliant @sarahjwells who knows a thing or two about managing a microservices architecture successfully, for an episode of The New Stack Makers

Wells helped the Financial Times move from 12 to 20,000 software releases a year. We discuss how that happened, what's needed to make such digital transformations work, and her highly recommended new book for O'Reilly "Enabling Microservices Success."

https://thenewstack.io/setting-microservices-up-for-success-real-world-advice/

This is a great writeup of a DB corruption bug and its detection and resolution. Much respect to Claire, these "things that should always happen in the right order have happened in the wrong order because of some particular set of extreme conditions, with surprise downstream consequences" bugs are absolutely the worst. "Let's reason backwards from effects to causes, with the caveat that causality maybe sometimes doesn't exist" is so hard.

https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/

Absolutely brainwormed by this article on how we’re rapidly ending up (or have already ended up) in post-capitalist feudalism and it just makes so much sense I’m surprised I wasn’t thinking of things this way: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

I guess it makes a difference when someone gives something a name

Excellent in depth and downright scary article on the Titan submersible.

"An accident waiting to happen"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen?utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&mbid=social_facebook&fbclid=IwAR0dcGijyz4SOluexiyco2_0ozNnu5ihXa6m9u4A2oeUD2zOtugJwGg5Hzc

Interesting. Someone didn't like it when documentation uses the term "simply" and "it's easy" so much they made a site out of it:

https://justsimply.dev/

It's actually a GOOD site too, and if you write docs or marketing it might be worth a look.