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Tuesday 23rd April, 2019 #

  • I'm having severe internet access issues, but it's more worrying than the usual "I just got cut off", it's very selective, only some sites are being blocked, it appears to be the DNS server that I'm using that is selectively not returning IPs for important sites that I use, but the DNS provider (a famous and well known provider) has no issues on their status page
  • "Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
  • MongoDB Compass - The GUI for MongoDB (Not sure if this tool is new, I hadn't seen it bofore)
  • Using Clean Architecture for Microservice APIs in Node.js with MongoDB and Express - Worth watching, it's a really well explained video covering a web architecture for building applications in Node.js where all the different concerns are seperated, uses a layered model implemented by dependency injection and factory functions
  • Google Employees Say They Faced Retaliation After Organizing Walkout
  • Complaints that NPM Inc have fired staff for trying to unionize
  • Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon’s cloud every month, making it one of the biggest AWS customers
  • Why Turning on HTTP/2 Was a Mistake - HTTP/2 has very different load characteristcs than HTTP/1.1 and this can cause application server to timeout during unexpected traffic spikes