Stuff Lucca says about tech - August 2k21

Hey folks, here’s what made the day in Lucca’s tech watch this month.

.NET

• .NET core minimal API is now supported by OpenAPI. This will be a real challenge for the controller pattern. (Anuraj Parameswaran)
• The StackOverflow survey is out, and ASP.NET Core is grabbing the second place on the podium! (James Newton-King)
• A nice attempt to write more readable unit tests. Not SpecFlow, just unit tests! (Cezary Piątek)
• ASP.NET Core fundamentals : a nice visual mind map to explore all the areas. (Moien Tajik)
• Stephen Toub just dropped the last Performance blog post for .NET 6, and this is really awesome, so many things to highlight.
  • Activity/open.telemetry support will be the de-facto standard for APMs.
  • Source-generator based Json will probably change the serialization game.
  • Trimmed publish looks even better than .NET5.
• David Fowler talks about community requested improvements, and yes, Parallel.ForEachAsync is here!
• A really nice post series about Strongly-Typed Ids is released, if you DDD, you should have a look. (Andrew Lock)

Architecture

• Abstractions vs clean code : the developer journey (Flavio Copes)
• CPU aren’t reliable : (David Rosenthal)

  • In other words it is technically and economically infeasible to implement tests for both storage systems and CPUs that assure errors will not occur in at-scale use. Even if hardware vendors can be persuaded to devote more resources to reliability, that will not remove the need for software to be appropriately skeptical of the data that cores are returning as the result of computation, just as the software needs to be skeptical of the data returned by storage devices and network interfaces.

• A great overview of inter-service communication trade-offs, performance / scalability / consistency. (Steve “ardalis” Smith)

Random

• SemVer explained (Simon Willison)
• 611M$ stollen! (Poly Network)
• But lesson learned, you can’t keep half a billion $ (Harry Denley)
• Do you think your org is secured enough ?
• Nvidia’s SIGGRAPH conference was a FAKE, YES! (Jacobson)
• Nick Craver leaves StackOverflow, the end of an era. (Nick Craver)
• Useful code comments are useful. (Mario Fusco)
• An AI coding, mind blown. (OpenAI)
• Linux is 30 years old, probably one of the best thing that has happened in our industry. (ZDNet)
• Well, we agree