☀️ The Tech Caffeine #23: This Week in Tech
Design Patterns for Serverless Systems, 10 Predictions for Web3 and the Crypto economy for 2022 & 5 Dev Tools To Look Out For In 2022
Happy New Year from The Tech Caffeine!
🥸 Design Patterns for Serverless Systems
Patterns are one of the most useful and effective tools in the area of software design. Serverless is a rapidly growing area in the technological landscape, with all cloud vendors launching new managed serverless services on a regular basis. . In this article the author has discussed different implementation approaches of one such design pattern in a serverless fashion using different AWS managed serverless services.
🙋🏻♂️ AWS Introduces AWS: rePost - A StackOverflow for AWS Services
The new service targets developers who have technical questions about AWS services, debate design or deployment issues, or preparing for AWS certifications. Users can post questions, answers, perform full-text searches, while community experts can moderate and validate the content. Users can collect reputation points in different ways, for example providing accepted answers, and reviewing feedback from other users, or obtaining AWS certifications.
💸 Avoiding Technical Bankruptcy: a Whole-Organization Perspective on Technical Debt
As software systems evolve, they tend to become less flexible and more difficult to work with. We often attribute this to rampant "technical debt", but fail to talk about what causes it.
Technical debt is not primarily caused by clumsy programming, and hence we cannot hope to fix it by more skilled programming alone. Rather, technical debt is a third-order effect of poor communication.
📍 2021 Roundup: The Top 5 Must-Read Blogs on the Modern Data Stack
For the modern data stack world, this year has been a series of new companies entering the space, funding announcements, some wars, and lots of fun data memes.
Can we call this the year when the “modern data stack” finally became mainstream? Well, only time will tell… But there’s definitely a lot happening in this space — new job titles, frameworks, tools, and predictions for the future.
🔮 10 Predictions for Web3 and the Crypto economy for 2022
2021 proved to be a breakout year for crypto with BTC price gaining almost 70% YoY, Defi hitting $150B in value locked, and NFTs emerging as a new category. Here is Coinbase’s Chief Product Officers’ crystal ball into 2022 and what it holds for our industry.
🧑🏻💻 5 Dev Tools To Look Out For In 2022
The demand for innovation and collaboration improvements for remote teams (and dev teams in particular) is probably one of the strongest trends we can currently observe in the industry.
In this short post I rounded up 5 relatively new dev tools that have recently been on my radar and I believe have the potential to improve our daily workflows.
📚 Recommended Read
This week I am reading Andrew Chen’s The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product.
If you ever wonder what is the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful business? The answer is The Network Effect. In this book, Andrew talks about the Network Effect in detail.
