Florian Benz

DSQL Vignette: Aurora DSQL, and A Personal Story - Marc's Blog

New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

📝 "Revisiting the Outbox Pattern"

New blog post is out, taking a fresh look at the outbox pattern: how to implement it correctly, is it still relevant, which alternatives exist?

👉 www.decodable.co/blog/revisit...

I just started on Bluesky and it's a blast so far. It's easy to find the people whom I want to follow and I'm reminded of how Twitter used to be.

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network - in @pragmaticengineer.com's Real-World Engineering Challenges series
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

A screenshot of the GitHub text editor, showing a README file which contains a json5 snippet (a Kafka Connect connector configuration) with inline comments

A rendered version of the same README and json5 snippet, with the inline comments being properly syntax-highlighted

Show-casing JSON snippets in a README file on GitHub? Then consider marking them as json5, so you can have proper in-line comments.

json5.org

Hard agree.

The speed that developers can write code is rarely the main impediment to poor software delivery velocity.

The DORA report has told us for 10 years now what works - Automate everything you can, grant people the psychological safety to fail without being fired, and keep it simple