Welcome to the new week!

Keeping head above water is a humble confession from Chris Klug.

I somehow missed his talk while I was at NDC Oslo. It's an important thing to watch. Our industry is filled with grind culture. You can easily find yourself in the corner having hard time to back to the proper mental state. Especially in the async world.

I'm also trying to keep my head above water. I'm also struggling and having the feeling-well, feeling-bad cycles. I'm quite often balancing on the burnout cycle and just trying to stay afloat.

We should care about our mental health in the same way we're carrying about our physical fitness. And it's okay to say admit you're feeling bad when you do. Watch it here:

• Chris Klug - I'm just trying to keep my head above water

Events join the technical and business worlds. Yet, when we apply that, we may get unexpected prosaic issues. For instance: how to serialise them? Should I just value objects in them or just primitives?

We should design our events case by case, putting information about the results of the business process. The closer they are to a domain, the better. Yet, this flexibility has a price.

Being flexible by convention means we cannot apply one convention to rule them all. So our typical serialisation strategies may fail. What's the solution, then?

We can go fully explicit both in the serialisation and event type mapping. I wrote about that in my latest article:

• Oskar Dudycz - Explicit events serialisation in Event Sourcing

Remember when I told you last week that the western world may be preparing for a new sort of cold war with China? It seems that things are moving into that. One of the battle places may be social media, starting from Tik Tok.

• National Post - U.S. considering ban on TikTok as experts warn China could use it for spying. What will Canada do?

• Forbes - TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

This is especially intriguing, keeping in mind that (in theory) TikTok should be storing data in the USA in Oracle servers. It’s worth keeping an eye on that, as either the Oracle deal was not enough to guard USA data, or things are getting more political. Or both.

There’s a nice section on security issues. You’ll find here yet another serious Okta leakage, wallpaper that kills Android phones, plus LastPass breached and new Spring vulnerabilities.

• Bleeping Computer - Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

• MrWhoseTheBoss - How THIS wallpaper kills your phone

• LastPass - Notice of Recent Security Incident

• Snyk.io - Exploring the Spring Security authorization bypass (CVE-2022-31692)

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Idempotency is a word that easy to spell wrongly and can get you into trouble. It’s also surprisingly hard to implement (no pun intended). Check following links to get you in the right direction:

• Ben Nadel - Considering Strategies For Idempotency Without Distributed Locking With Ben Darfler

• Jon Chew - Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System

• Jimmy Bogard - Refactoring Towards Resilience: Evaluating SendGrid Options

Remember that Mercedes put an acceleration boost behind the paywall? Now Intel is trying to introduce “pay-as-you-go” processors. It’s happening...

• Anton Shilov - Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing

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This is the last edition of Architecture Weekly this year. Thank you for being here; that means a lot to me. Having such a community of readers helps me to motivate to keep this going. All the best, and stay healthy!

Check, also other links!

Cheers
Oskar

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Architecture

• Oskar Dudycz - Explicit events serialisation in Event Sourcing

• Ben Nadel - Considering Strategies For Idempotency Without Distributed Locking With Ben Darfler

• Jon Chew - Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System

• Jimmy Bogard - Refactoring Towards Resilience: Evaluating SendGrid Options

• Vladik Khononov - Tackling Complexity in CQRS

• Gregor Hohpe - I Made Everything Loosely Coupled. Does My App Fall Apart?

• Derek Comartin - You want to use Kafka? Or do you really need a Queue?

• The Hanselminutes podcast - Hachyderm's Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server

• Leigh Griffin, Chris Foley - Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role

AI

• ComputerWeekly - GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers

• Parth Thakkar - Copilot Internals

Go

• Robert Laszczak - The Best Go framework: no framework?

Java

• Edoardo Vacchi - WebAssembly for the Java Geek

.NET

• Tomasz Pęczek - Experimenting With .NET & WebAssembly - Running .NET Based Spin Application On WASI Node Pool in AKS

• Jeremy D. Miller - Transactional Outbox/Inbox with Wolverine and why you care

• Jonathan Allen - .NET 7 Adds Aggressive Garbage Collection for Kubernetes

• Rob Janssen - NUlid

Node.js

• ESLint - Complete rewrite of ESLint

Rust

• Nick Cameron - Rust in 2023

TypeScript

• Andrey Starovoyt - Behind the Scenes: Discussing One of the Most Interesting TypeScript 4.9 Features

Coding Life

• Chris Klug - I'm just trying to keep my head above water

• Connor Tumbleson - Open Source & Saying "No"

Industry

• Anton Shilov - Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing

• DataQuest - How AWS enabled the making of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water?’

• Fortune - How Amazon grew an awkward side project into AWS, a behemoth that’s now 4 times bigger than its original shopping business

• Los Angeles Times - How Amazon put Ukraine’s ‘government in a box’ — and saved its economy from Russia

• National Post - U.S. considering ban on TikTok as experts warn China could use it for spying. What will Canada do?

• Forbes - TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

Security

• Bleeping Computer - Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked

• MrWhoseTheBoss - How THIS wallpaper kills your phone

• LastPass - Notice of Recent Security Incident

• Snyk.io - Exploring the Spring Security authorization bypass (CVE-2022-31692)