My reading list

GitHub

To Read

Crossplane

An infrastructure configuration service, perhaps a bit like Terraform, that works as a Kubernetes controller with the infrastructure requirements specified as K8s resources.

Defold

A game engine I heard of recently. It seems quite mature with a visual game editor. I want to try it out.

Grafana Dash Gen

A JavaScript library for making the creation of Grafana dashboards easier

JupyterLab Extension Tutorial

I want to learn to write JupyterLab extensions because its an interesting platform to build Python and non-Python development tools on top of.

Project Loom and Virtual Threads in Java

Java had so far avoided adopting async/await syntax, and it seems it may adopt "virtual threads" instead. This points explains what those are.

The project around implementing this is called "Project Loom"

Testcontainers

A generic multi-language framework for using containers as test fixtures. This is something we write for ourselves in segment-bridge but perhaps we could adopt this.

Reading

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Amplitude

Amplitude is an online service focused around user journey data collection and analysis. Where "user journey" is a way to describe and analyze users' activity in an application.

Gatsby

While I started learning to use react.js with next.js, its interesting to learn other frameworks to see other approaches.

After having read about it a bit, it seems too big and complex for my taste.

Mind the gap — 50 years of shortening feedback loops

A blog post describing a different approach to building software development environments. Some of this might be familiar to SmallTalk developers, but its a radical departure from the common text-editor-based paradigm.

One VM to Rule Them All

An article about the ideas and concepts that underlay Truffle, the generic library for writing language interpreters, that is shipped with (And depends on) the GraalVM Java VM.

Remark

The JS markdown rendering library used by this very site.

System Design 101

A short overview for a huge variety of system design topics. A really recommended read!