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Mar 2020 reading list

Image optimization and compression is one of main features of ImageEngine CDN (I work on this project). This Netflix blog article is great at going into details of why we probably need a new, modern image format : “AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding” https://netflixtechblog.com/avif-for-next-generation-image-coding-b1d75675fe4

Faster Paint Metrics with Responsive Image Optimization CDNs
https://medium.com/@firt/faster-paint-metrics-with-responsive-image-optimization-cdns-d43340d4a48c

Speed up Woocommerce with an Image CDN https://hackernoon.com/speed-up-woocommerce-with-an-image-cdn-kt1q3yeg

Faster Image delivery with Chrome Light mode https://medium.com/imageengine/faster-image-delivery-with-chromes-lite-mode-93900eac126e

How to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Your Website by 50% https://imageengine.io/blog/how-to-reduce-the-carbon-footprint-of-your-website-by-50/

Images are not static content https://css-tricks.com/images-are-not-static-content/

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0

Feb 2020 reading list

Python package formats : it’s hard to keep track of them 🙂

https://www.bernat.tech/pep-517-and-python-packaging/

Always though that variables shadowing was a problem : https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-01-variables-and-mutability.html#shadowing
and I still thinks so : https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-May/004306.html

Microservice design : brokerless vs. broker/message bus based, interesting read

Nice dependency injection in Go : https://medium.com/@fsufitch/dependency-injection-and-testability-in-a-go-webservice-a91d0e5469dd

API Gateways : https://konghq.com/ https://tyk.io/

Goroutines in go 1.13 how they work : https://medium.com/a-journey-with-go/go-what-does-a-goroutine-switch-actually-involve-394c202dddb7

Monitoring air quality : http://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Monitoring_air_quality_takes_next_step

Jan 2020 reading list

https://medium.com/@alexkatrompas/the-fall-of-the-software-engineer-the-rise-of-the-programmer-technician-451a572d28b0

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/12/13/how-do-committees-invent/

Spotify Engineering culture : https://medium.com/productmanagement101/spotify-squad-framework-part-i-8f74bcfcd761

QUIC : https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-http.html

Teamcity REST API : https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD10/REST+API

Object-Oriented Programming — The Trillion Dollar Disaster https://medium.com/better-programming/object-oriented-programming-the-trillion-dollar-disaster-92a4b666c7c7

Stop using classes in JS : https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/please-stop-using-classes-in-javascript-and-become-a-better-developer-a185c9fbede1

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/20/stella-coping-with-complexity-2/

https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/01/22/trade-offs-under-pressure-part-1/

Interesting read about latency and how 99% Quantile may not be enough : https://bravenewgeek.com/everything-you-know-about-latency-is-wrong/