Welcome to the new week!

Last Thursday, we did the next webinar for the community of Architecture Weekly paid subscribers. We asked ChatGPT to provide us with an example of an aggregate. It did not disappoint us and provided a code with many things to slim down, so we did!
Watch the webinar to see how effectively design aggregates focused on business logic!

Speaking about ChatGPT, as you might know, I've spent a lot of time with it in the last two weeks. I decided to share my findings on whether it's a revolution and whether we should be scared of it.

That's not yet another ChatGPT hype/criticism piece of work. I've tried to explain the foundations of how it works, where it's useful and where it's not backing it up with reference links. All of that is based on my personal experience and my conclusions. Read more:

• Oskar Dudycz - ChatGPT, revolution or not?

It’s good to catch up with the latest news about AI, but let’s now cache up with other stuff. Yeah, I’m not the best in-jokes, but at least I’m quite good at finding decent links. So check a great explanation on how Netlifx uses/used cache in their services and how foundational it is for their architecture:

• Scott Mansfield - Caching at Netflix: The Hidden Microservice

See also how nowadays, using CloudFlare can skyrocket your cache management and submarine your bills.

• Troy Hunt - To Infinity and Beyond, with Cloudflare Cache Reserve

That may or may not be your best decision. If you’re solving some issue with cache, you’re usually ending up with two issues instead. Still, whatever you decide, log it. Never enough good resources around Architecture Decision Records. Read more in:

• Grygoriy Gonchar - A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions

• IcePanel - Architecture decision records (ADRs)

I’m not sure if Google logged it, but they decided to allow you to use their AlloyDB locally on your notebook and in your project. What’s AlloyDB? It’s yet another Postgres-based database engine enabling your application to scale up on the cloud. Read more:

• Google - Run AlloyDB anywhere - in your data center, your laptop, or in any cloud

Speaking about the local environment. I remember days when all was installed on the box. After a few months, the computer was so sluggish that it had to be reinstalled. Now we could do better than that. Check a free online course on how DevContainers can help you in setting up such one:

• Avdi Grimm - Reproducible Development with Containers - Free Online Course

Seeing the new inventions in Frontend land, I must check which year. It’d be great if Frontend and Backend world talked with each other more often. Then maybe we could achieve fewer cycles and reinvent one side of what others knew a few years ago. See:

• Kent C. Dodds - React Server Components with Dan Abramov, Joe Savona

Check also other links!

Cheers
Oskar

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Architecture

• Scott Mansfield - Caching at Netflix: The Hidden Microservice

• Troy Hunt - To Infinity and Beyond, with Cloudflare Cache Reserve

• Grygoriy Gonchar - A Simple Framework for Architectural Decisions

• IcePanel - Architecture decision records (ADRs)

• Microsoft - Microsoft Teams: Advantages of the new architecture

• Zalando - Tech Radar

• Charity Majors - Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery

Databases

• Google - Run AlloyDB anywhere - in your data center, your laptop, or in any cloud

• Citus - Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

DevOps

• Avdi Grimm - Reproducible Development with Containers - Free Online Course

Testing

• Kamil Grzybek - Automated Tests: The Why

• Chelsea Troy - Testing: A Heuristic Hunting Conversation with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

API

• Optic - Track your API changes without writing YAML by hand

Frontend

• Kent C. Dodds - React Server Components with Dan Abramov, Joe Savona

• The Prime Time - React is Holding Me Hostage!!!

AI

• Oskar Dudycz - ChatGPT, revolution or not?

• ZeroHedge - Italy Bans OpenAI's ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns

• TechCrunch - Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI

AWS

• The Burning Monk - The Old Faithful: Why SSM Parameter Store still reigns over Secrets Manager

.NET

• Adam Furmanek - Implementing async with coroutines and fibers - project Loom in C#

• Conner Phillis - Sequential GUIDs in Entity Framework Core Might Not Be Sequential

• Microsoft - API to provide the current system time

• Cezary Piątek - WireMock.NET - Introduction

Coding Life

• Joel Spolsky - Things You Should Never Do, Part I

• Nick Brown - The many flaws of flow efficiency

• Alexander Zeitler - I'm printing out websites - and why you might want to do it too

Management

• Matt Wynne, Steve Tooke - Slicing User Stories for Agile Teams

Security

• OWASP - Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS)