Stuff Lucca says about tech - September 2k21

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

.NET

• We were waiting for it eagerly, File IO improvements in .NET 6 are real! (Adam Sitnik)
• There’re some hard-to-believe gotchas with the new switch patterns (Ankit Vijay)
• Spectre.Console is just beautiful (Kevin Jones)
• Native support for IAsyncEnumerable<T> for the JSON serializer in .NET 6 (David Fowler)
• Aaaaand RC1 is ready ! (Richard Lander)
• Once again, Andrew Lock shares a very intersting blog post series about .NET6 changes
  • Even David Fowler thinks Andrew should write the .NET docs :)
• Are you complaining about your long CI durations? dotnet/runtime takes 3527 minutes. (Immo Landwerth)
• Coravel : a micro-framework providing various useful features. (James Hickey)

Architecture

• A very good comparison of distributed transaction patterns for microservices (Bilgin Ibryam)
  • Unfortunately, this article doesn’t warns against low level coupling induced by Debezium, or fallacies of 2PC.

Random

• Everybody deserves a roadmap (Yannick Grenzinger)
• Docker desktop isn’t free anymore (Chriscreama Warren)
• Also, computer scientists (Faded Nick)
• Don’t be afraid by GitHub Copilot, it generates insecure code 40% of the time (theinsaneapp)
• Google Captcha is getting harder and harder (@memenetes)
• We’ll not lie, we also love adrenaline (@ismonkeyuser)
• Also, Testosterone (@jennplusplus)
• This @Foone tweet contains DOOM. (@Foone)
• What will happen in 2050? (Riccardo Cefala)
  • Internal note : COBOL developers are being buried in gold caskets in custom pyramids
• C# 15 preview is out (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Also,
  • backend developers (Tawanda Nyahuye)
  • frontend developers (Spooky Tolinski)
  • Ransomware threats are getting out of control (Brian Whelton)
  • As Internet threats (@thegrugq)
  • When April Fools pranks are real. (@StackOverflow)
• Time zones are hard (Tony Finch)
• Ho no, a network loop again (@summer__heidi)