We are seeing event sourced systems used in more and more places, but many people are finding it difficult to do effectively. We’ve used Kafka in many instances, and have found it to be a great match for event sourcing. This article does a greate job of explaining how.
Security on the web has taken a step forward with the ratification of the WebAuthn standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) earlier this week. This guide provides a good overview of the technology for those looking to know more.
For those interested in Data Science, and how to use Python, Pandas, Numpy, etc. in pursuit of said interest, this site provides Jupyter notebooks with an interactive playground for learning. If you haven’t worked with Jupyter notebooks, this is a great place to start.
While it is certainly possible to go overboard into “stack envy” when talking about the likes of Google, their SRE team has a lot of experience and worthwhile advice about how to run Ops for a valued web property. This free online book is a treasure trove of their knowledge.
Segment is in a great position to be able to provide a perspective on which MarTech platforms are getting usage and what the trends look like. This is their analysis.
I’ve been to many places where some variation of this practice was enforced. Whether it was reading support email, or going on sales ride-alongs, this was always a valuable exercise. It not only gives immediacy to customer pain points - it often opens the door to thinking of new opportunities.
We’ve come across this debate at a number of places lately, and it almost seems like it may become the next great divide among devs along with such greats as ‘VI vs Emacs’ and ‘Tabs vs Spaces’. I wouldn’t call this paper the definitive take on the subject, as the population surveyed is pretty skewed towards monorepo users, but it does do a good job of teasing out why those users prefer it.
Chaos Engineering is something that we find most people wish they did more…often times in retrospect. The folks over at Gremlin have put together a nice overview of the state of the art in this area, with pointers to many useful tools and practices beyond their own product.
This article from the Harvard Business Review provides case studies into how organizations have successfully leveraged online experimentation into profits, as well as some of the challenges they encountered.
Continuing our theme on security… There has been a lot of positive activity on the web security front recently, but there are a few landmines to watch out for. The financial industry has been pushing for a less secure version of TLS that may cause some confusion out there. This article from the EFF clears things up.
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