April picks - A curated list of articles from the web about software development

Here is a list of articles about tech that I have found interesting during the month of April. Enjoy !

Nodejs / Typescript / Javascript

• A nice thread about typescript tips & tricks
• Type annotations has reached stage 1 / proposal and Decorators has reached stage 3 / candidate in the ECMAScript's TC39 committee of ECMA : types and decorators in javascript 🤯:, is this end of typescript as a super set of javascript in the years to come?
• Bubble sorting at type level in typescript 🤪
• Node 18 is out with the new fetch api and integrated test runner

Java

• Quarkus, the nice framework to build micro services or server less function in Java with top notch perfs and useful tooling. Explained with live coding with REST, graphQL, gRPC and Kafka by Clément Escoffier from Redhat
• The videos of devoxx 2022 are out (in french)

Database

• 'How to choose the right db for your use case?', a diagram

Cloud

• Making http endpoint for AWS Lambda functions without the need API Gateway with AWS Lambda Function URLs
• Scaling performances of AWS Tools : AWS Lambdas functions scale blazingly fast even when using containers
• How to optimise AWS Lambda functions performances

Dev / Tooling

• New feature to protect against pushing secrets to repo on github
• How HTTPie lost 50k starts on github
• Create beautiful code snippets whith chalk.ist
• Lage, a Beautiful JS Monorepo Task Runner by @Microsoft
• Interesting devops blog (in french)
• New version of slide.dev
• Lerna main maintainer steps down, now managed by the team behind nx

Craft / Architecting

• TDD training with small katas (in french) par @BloquetGabin
• An old article from the great GeePaw Hill about the interest of TDD
• "Everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades by curl creator"

Leading in tech

• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
• A way to re-organize your technical teams so that the organisation layout match the technical architecture

Fun

• Find where the buildings shadows are during the day, to find the best place to enjoy your beer in summer ⛱🍻 (in french)
• C&C Red Alert engine open sourced