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Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
eev.ee
Practical case for testing aimed at people who dislike it, arguing for a friendly framework like pytest, tests over what you already check by hand, and fast reliable runs.
linux-toys.com
Critique of the Docker 1.12 release, arguing that Swarm mode and its multi-host networking were marketed before they worked reliably.
github.com
Repository holding the definitions and review process behind the Official Images published on Docker Hub.
github.com
Minimal init for containers, spawning a single child, forwarding signals to it and reaping zombie processes, with no change needed to the image.
pmarchive.com
Part 5 of the Pmarca Guide to Startups: why big-company decisions are unpredictable, and why a startup should never stake its survival on landing one such deal.
unsplash.com
Library of free high-resolution photographs, downloadable for commercial and personal use under the Unsplash licence.
github.com
Docker build tool extending the Dockerfile syntax with mounts, templating and multiple image outputs; the repository was archived in 2023.
github.com
Generates Dockerfiles from Bash sources so build steps can be reused across files; the repository was archived in 2023.
aws.amazon.com
AWS announcement that CloudFront can forward extra request headers — device type, viewer country, protocol — to the origin so it can tailor its responses.
medium.com
Argues that VC firms build platform teams mainly as a go-to-market move to win deal flow, not to add operational value to companies after investing.
tools.ietf.org
IETF Proposed Standard defining the /.well-known/ path prefix for site-wide metadata, together with a registry for well-known URI names.
github.com
Open-source API gateway built on NGINX, putting routing, load balancing, authentication and a plugin system in front of microservices.
martinfowler.com
Pattern description of Event Sourcing, storing every change to application state as a sequence of events that can be replayed to rebuild past states.
blog.heroku.com
Walkthrough of building a real-time chat application with Django Channels and WebSockets, then deploying it on Heroku with Redis as the channel layer.
channels.readthedocs.io
Channels documentation for ASGI, the asynchronous successor to WSGI that lets a Python server handle WebSockets and other protocols beyond HTTP.
