Multi-runtime microservices architecture

Successful distributed applications should be stateless, scalable, configurable, independently released, containerized, automatable, easy to upgrade, affordable to maintain, and even—sometimes—event-driven and serverless. Balancing all that can be a challenge. In this article, Bilgin Ibryam describes how distributed platforms are evolving and what still needs to happen in distributed systems to make maintainable distributed architectures easier to build.

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What’s a Deno?

It’s a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

Event sourcing with data structures

With event sourcing, you can store state-changing events and derive actual state only when needed. This opens up a lot of possibilities when it comes to auditability and deriving new information. Here’s a look at event sourcing with data structures.

How building your own product can make you an experienced developer

An educated programmer knows programming—perhaps very well. But an experienced developer can identify potential pain points at an early stage and suggest solutions. Building your own project can fast-track that kind of experience.

Writing Go CLIs (with just enough architecture)

Carl Johnson shows how to write an application to fetch comics from the XKCD API and display the results, using just enough architecture to avoid “abstractions that don’t actually pay for themselves in setup time versus time saved in writing future extensions to your program.”

A new quantum programming language

According to its creators, the Silq programming language supports automatic (and safe) computation.

Tricks for writing better Python code

Make your code more readable, concise, and Pythonic.

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Four lessons software teams can learn from rock bands.