Interesting links of the week 2023-4 (#56)

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, and GitHub repositories I've run into over the last week (January 16, 2023 - January 23, 2023)

My Favorites from the Week

• You are not your customer: How to avoid building the wrong product (Glenn Block)
• Feature Factories vs. Value Generators

Software Development

• How a single mandate changed software development forever
• Dots - the friendly .NET SDK manager
• New storage providers for Azure Durable Functions now generally available
• What's in a (Version) Number?
• Checking for Overflow in C# (Jeremy Clark)
• 5 key benefits of a microservice architecture
• Most Common QA Myths
• Only 1% Need Microservices
• Consider All Microservices Vulnerable — And Monitor Their Behavior
• The Full-Stack Developer Fallacy (Ted Neward)
• Encrypt SQL Server Stored Procedures to Protect Source Code
• Resilience and Waste in Software Teams (Jess Kerr)
• Getting started with BenchmarkDotNet
• Examples of problems with integers
• Securing Sensitive Information with .NET User Secrets
• The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation

Technology and Science

• Special-Purpose IP Address Registries - RFC 6890
• SQL Server In Place Upgrades: Too Expensive?
• Millions of Vehicles at Risk: API Vulnerabilities Uncovered in 16 Major Car Brands
• Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? Stanford scholar explains
• Calcure Is the Terminal-Based Calendar and Task Manager You Never Knew You Needed
• 10 Things You Can Do With Power Management Commands in Terminal (Mac)

Leadership

• The Player/Coach Fallacy (Ted Neward)
• The Art of Effortless Decision Making
• Management Debt
• Probably, Just, Maybe, and Perhaps

Project Management / Agile

• Not Everything Needs to Be a User Story: Using FDD Features
• What are deliverables in agile and why do we have them?
• About software estimation and planning

Social Media

• Dozens of US schools, universities move to ban TikTok

Non-Technology / Random

• Researchers have followed over 700 people since 1938 to find the keys to happiness. Here’s what they discovered

Videos

• The Lost Art of Letter Writing
• Azure Infrastructure Weekly Update - 20th January 2023 (John Savill)

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/inthehand/32feet
• https://github.com/enocom/gopher-reading-list
• https://github.com/eobrain/simplodon
• https://github.com/yv989c/ChartsForBenchmarkDotNet

Things I Learned

• Nothing this week, more coming soon