BetterProgramming, a site on Medium.com, posted “30 Coding Concepts I Learned After Reading “Clean Code””, referencing Robert Martin’s Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
towards data science, a Medium site, posted “Stop Using CSVs for Storage — This File Format Is 150 Times Faster”. speaking of the Feather file format. Despite the rather blatant and manipulative clickbait in the title, it’s a useful article if only because it demonstrates the use of Feather.
In older versions of MongoDB, transactions were limited to single documents: updates on single documents were atomic, and as they could hold references to other documents (or be quite in-depth themselves), transactions were somewhat avoidable.
However, in later versions of Mongo, multiple updates can be made transactional, allowing users to coordinate updates just as they might in a traditional SQL database.
Cloudflare, a CDN provider, wrote up an excellent article on how Facebook disappeared from the Internet on 2021 October 4. It refers to Facebook’s own update about the October 4 outage.
Slawomir Dymitrow posted TDD: How to test something that doesn’t exist that discusses a few things about Test-Driven Development and lessons learned along the way. The main takeaway: “don’t test classes, test APIs,” which seems like a pretty good idea.
JSON is a common lingua franca for interaction between processes, because it’s so easy to type and use, and apparently XML is terrible (it’s not, but hey!). But JSON is sometimes not all that easy to work with, either.
JavaScript in Plain English, a Medium site, has an interesting writeup on writing a “recruiter-proof” LinkedIn profile. By “recruiter-proof” the author apparently means “good for recruiters” such that it draws the attention you want, rather than the attention you don’t want.
Google has a page online introducing Logica, a way of describing queries logically instead of relationally. It is largely python-focused (as a lot of big data things are) but looks interesting; with enough time, it might find its way to other languages, too.