Issue #09
The one about microservices, fake GitHub stars, and Vite
Node weekly
- You Want Modules, Not Microservices: Top 10 reasons why microservices are about developers and not about technology. This is an opinionated deep dive into architectural decisions, hype, and developer happiness.
- Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment: Yet another opinion piece on AI. It explores the employment landscape for software developers and how writing more efficient and less complex code may affect the economy.
- How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive: For legal reasons, this is an article about Cloudflare’s CDN, proxy servers, and Flask.
- Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery: Speaking of which, the (aspiring) investigative journalists of Dagster follow fake stars on GitHub and shake GitHub’s trust and safety.
- In Praise of Vite: Quick words of appreciation for Vite. If you are not convinced yet, look around the internet for the love that it got in the last year (or maybe read some technical articles idk).
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