Early 2023 picks - A curated list of tech articles from the web

Here is a list of tech articles that I found interesting during the months of February / March / April / May. Enjoy!

• Node.js / Typescript

  • Express outperformed by Fastify when it comes to JSON processing

  • Node.js 20 is out with among other things permissions "à la deno"

• API

  • On choosing a hypermedia type for your rest API (JSON-LD inside)

  • GraphQL : From excitement to deception

• Kotlin

  • Tips for writing kotlin Multiplatform Android/iOS libraries

  • bld : A new build tool (coded in java) that does things differently from maven and gradle

• Swift

  • Approvals testing in iOS ( à la Jest.toMatchSnapshot)

• Testing

  • Use test code to generate gherkin documentation a.k.a approvals

  • PactumJS : A full featured REST API testing library

  • Dave Farley desmistifying approval testing, one of the new buzzword in town

  • Does TDD really lead to good design?

• Web

  • A case against SPA Frameworks (and mostly React)

  • A case in defense of SPA Frameworks (and mostly React)

  • An interview of Ken Cod on Web Next Transition : Pushing UI computation into the edge

  • Another take on the state of the web and front-end frameworks, praising Svelte this time

  • Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

• Tooling

  • Generating Jetbrain http client files from open api spec file

  • A comparison of languages from the DEV EX side (debugger, live data visualisation, live editing)(spoiler alert: go and rust are not the top contenders)

  • An example of LLM prompting for programming from Martin Fowler

  • Typedoc: A tool to generate documentation from Typescript annotated files

  • TsUML2: A tool to generate UML diagrams from Typescripts files

• Cloud

  • Clever cloud usage REX

  • Why multi-cloud Datadog's strategy wasn't enough to prevent its last outage

• Observability

  • A curated list of open telemetry resources

• Architecture

  • Some wrong common beliefs in software development from this old blog post

  • Event driven architecture visuals on various topics

  • The infamous blog post where Amazon explains that it went from microservice to monolith architecture and reduces its cost by 90%...

  • ...but is in fact just a microservice refactoring and a switch from lambda to a container based solution

• Craftmanship

  • Some good old truths about managing your time at work from Scott Hanselman (from 12 years ago :), all still valid !

  • The Invisible Success of Near Misses

  • Kent Beck and Dave Farley, discussing testing and software development, yummy 😋

  • "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (C++ inside) (a tradeoff for better maintainability of the code ?)

  • On trust in software development

• Lead in tech

  • Updated dropbox Engineering career framework

  • About measuring developer productivity with surveys (DORA @inside)

  • How to measure effectiveness of a team (from google again)

  • Platform team vs enabling teams by one of the author of the book "team topologies"

• IA

  • Some resource about Large Language Models (A.K.A. ChatGPT)

  • Open source AI will soon outperform GAFAM ones

• Fun

  • How to become a -10x software engineer