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# Awesome lost & found



A personal list of useful software engineering resources that may have been lost in my browser's history otherwise.



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Why? What is this?



I share interesting software engineering resources on [my Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/mikemybytes) as they come. 

Yet, _interesting_ does not always mean _worth revisiting_. When somebody asks: _Hey Mike, do you have any useful 

resources about Kafka?_, we both would benefit from a single list. Besides, I sometimes forget too...



**This list is like a set of selectively filtered bookmarks**. My goal is not to add things here regularly but to keep 

them useful and accurate. New [releases](https://github.com/mikemybytes/awesome-lost-and-found/releases) act a bit like 

a newsletter for those who are interested. Also, I don't link [my own articles]([releases](https://mikemybytes.com)) 

here.



Leave a :star: if you found it awesome too!



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## Architecture



- [The Twelve-Factor App](https://12factor.net/)

- [A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Caching Patterns](https://hazelcast.com/blog/a-hitchhikers-guide-to-caching-patterns/)

- [Microservices Production Readiness Checklist](https://github.com/kgoralski/microservice-production-readiness-checklist)

- [Simple systems have less downtime](https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/)

- [Event-Driven Architectures vs. Event-Based Compute in Serverless Applications](https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/event-driven-vs-event-based/) - using 

serverless functions (like AWS Lambda) is not enough to call the architecture "event-driven" 



## Java



- [Maintaining a medium-sized Java library in 2022 and beyond](https://michael-simons.github.io/neo4j-migrations/maintaining-a-medium-sized-java-library-in-2022-and-beyond/)

- [Modern Best Practices for Testing in Java](https://phauer.com/2019/modern-best-practices-testing-java/)

- [Map.merge() - One method to rule them all](https://nurkiewicz.com/2019/03/mapmerge-one-method-to-rule-them-all.html)

- [What is the point of extending a sealed class with a non-sealed class?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63860110/what-is-the-point-of-extending-a-sealed-class-with-a-non-sealed-class/63887136#63887136)

- [How the JIT compiler boosts Java performance in OpenJDK](https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/06/23/how-jit-compiler-boosts-java-performance-openjdk)

- [Automatic-Module-Name: Calling all Java Library Maintainers](http://branchandbound.net/blog/java/2017/12/automatic-module-name/)

- [Testing in a modular world](https://info.michael-simons.eu/2021/10/19/testing-in-a-modular-world/) - an overview of 

available testing strategies when using Java Platform Module System (JPMS)

- [Java Best Practices](http://java.jonathangiles.net/)

- [There is no single dependency graph](https://melix.github.io/blog/2022/07/there-is-no-single-dependency-graph.html) -

caveats and misconceptions around resolving application/library dependencies

- [Local Variable Type Inference Style Guidelines](https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/guides/lvti-style-guide) - when to

use (and when not) the `var` keyword

- 📺 [Secrets of Performance Tuning Java on Kubernetes](https://vimeo.com/748031919) - despite the title, it focuses on

the most essential parts like selecting the right GC, defining max heap size, and avoiding CPU throttling

- [GC Causes](https://netflix.github.io/atlas-docs/spectator/lang/java/ext/jvm-gc-causes/) - an useful list of various 

Java garbage collection causes

- [The best way to use Testcontainers with Spring Boot](https://maciejwalkowiak.com/blog/testcontainers-spring-boot-setup/) - the "best"

is always quite subjective, but this one is a really great starting point

- [THE BEST WAY TO USE TESTCONTAINERS FROM YOUR SPRING BOOT TESTS!](https://info.michael-simons.eu/2023/07/27/the-best-way-to-use-testcontainers-from-your-spring-boot-tests/) - it's

not a duplicate: this one shows how to use Testcontainers with `@ServiceConnection` in Spring Boot 3.x

- [How to Effectively Test Time-Dependent Code: Unit and Spring-Based Strategies](https://jonasg.io/posts/how-to-effectively-test-time-dependent-code/)

- [Java 21 is no LTS Version](https://nipafx.dev/inside-java-newscast-52/) - debunking myths about "LTS" releases 

- [When Quarkus meets Virtual Threads](https://quarkus.io/blog/virtual-thread-1/) - great explanation of what Virtual 

 Threads bring to the table, and how they "compare" to the reactive model. Not only for Quarkus users!

- [Spring Transaction Management: @Transactional In-Depth](https://www.marcobehler.com/guides/spring-transaction-management-transactional-in-depth)

- [JFR Event collection](https://sap.github.io/SapMachine/jfrevents/21.html)



## Kotlin



- [Best Practices for Unit Testing in Kotlin](https://phauer.com/2018/best-practices-unit-testing-kotlin/)

- [MockK Guidebook](https://notwoods.github.io/mockk-guidebook/) - a good addition to the official [MockK](https://mockk.io/) 

documentation, especially when it comes to migrating from Mockito

- [Kotlin: An Illustrated Guide](https://typealias.com/start/)

- [Kotlin and Exceptions](https://elizarov.medium.com/kotlin-and-exceptions-8062f589d07) - dos and don'ts of using

exceptions in Kotlin

- [Coding conventions](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coding-conventions.html) - a set of official language guidelines



## APIs



- [Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines](https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/)

- [Your Circuit Breaker is Misconfigured](https://shopify.engineering/circuit-breaker-misconfigured) - overview of various

Circuit Breaker parameters and their impact on reliability



## Kafka



- [The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction](https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying)

- [Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza](https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/03/04/turning-the-database-inside-out.html)

- [Squeezing the firehose: getting the most from Kafka compression](https://blog.cloudflare.com/squeezing-the-firehose/) - overview

and comparison of the available message compression methods

- [Optimizing Kafka producers](https://strimzi.io/blog/2020/10/15/producer-tuning/)

- _Exploring Kafka XYZ's Internals_ series

  - [Exploring Kafka Producer’s Internals](https://blog.developer.adobe.com/exploring-kafka-producers-internals-37411b647d0f)

  - [Exploring Kafka Consumer’s Internals](https://medium.com/adobetech/exploring-kafka-consumers-internals-b0b9becaa106)

- 📺 [Kafka: a map of traps for the enlightened dev and op](https://youtu.be/paVdXL5vDzg) - probably the best Kafka deep dive 

I've ever seen (from basic concepts, through operations, and complex "what if X fails?" considerations)



## Databases

- [How a Distributed SQL Database Boosts Secondary Index Queries with Index Only Scan](https://blog.yugabyte.com/how-a-distributed-sql-database-boosts-secondary-index-queries-with-index-only-scan/) - reading 

data directly from the index (PostgreSQL)

- [The Skip Locked feature in Postgres 9.5](https://www.pgcasts.com/episodes/the-skip-locked-feature-in-postgres-9-5) - turning 

PostgreSQL into a simple job queue

- [The What, Why, and When of Single-Table Design with DynamoDB](https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-single-table/)

- [The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases](https://questdb.io/blog/inner-workings-distributed-databases/)

- [Loose indexscan in PostgreSQL](https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Loose_indexscan) - finding distinct values of the 

leading columns of a B-tree index in an efficient way

- [“Multi-AZ” in Amazon RDS and how it may differ from High Availability](https://dev.to/aws-heroes/multi-az-in-amazon-rds-and-how-it-differs-from-high-availability-gn9)

- [Challenges and Solutions When Scaling PostgreSQL](https://onesignal.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-5-years-of-scaling-postgresql/) - including 

explanation on how to deal with bloat (`VACUUM`)

- [PostgreSQL and UUID as primary key](https://maciejwalkowiak.com/blog/postgres-uuid-primary-key/) - short summary of 

the advantages of using UUID v7 instead of v4 (random)



## Distributed systems



- [Consistency models](https://jepsen.io/consistency) - a clickable map of relationships between different consistency models

- [Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ConsistencyAndBaseballReport.pdf)

- [10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems](https://shopify.engineering/building-resilient-payment-systems) - not

only for payment systems!



## Observability



- _Prometheus Range Vectors_ series

  - [Understanding Prometheus Range Vectors](https://satyanash.net/software/2021/01/04/understanding-prometheus-range-vectors.html)

  - [Charting Range Vectors in Prometheus](https://satyanash.net/software/2021/06/09/charting-range-vectors-prometheus.html)

- _How does a Prometheus XYZ work?_ series

  - [How does a Prometheus Counter work?](https://www.robustperception.io/how-does-a-prometheus-counter-work/)

  - [How does a Prometheus Gauge work?](https://www.robustperception.io/how-does-a-prometheus-gauge-work/)

  - [How does a Prometheus Summary work?](https://www.robustperception.io/how-does-a-prometheus-summary-work)

  - [How does a Prometheus Histogram work?](https://www.robustperception.io/how-does-a-prometheus-histogram-work)

- [Awesome Prometheus alerts](https://awesome-prometheus-alerts.grep.to/) - collection of alerting rules for various 

occasions



## Kubernetes



- [In Kubernetes, what should I use as CPU requests and limits?](https://twitter.com/danielepolencic/status/1632717409051181056)

- [A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments](https://learnk8s.io/troubleshooting-deployments)



## Git



- [How to Write a Git Commit Message](https://cbea.ms/git-commit/)

- [A better git blame with --ignore-rev](https://michaelheap.com/git-ignore-rev/) - ignoring certain revisions (e.g. 

code formatting) from `git blame` output



## Testing



- [How simple is 'too simple to break'?](https://junit.org/junit4/faq.html#best_3)



## Software craftsmanship



- [CUPID for joyful coding](https://dannorth.net/2022/02/10/cupid-for-joyful-coding/) - an interesting 

and pragmatic alternative to SOLID (Composable, Unix philosophy, Predictable, Idiomatic, Domain-based)

- [Kent Beck's four rules of simple design](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BeckDesignRules.html) - passes the tests,

reveals intention, no duplication, fewest elements

- [Safe to fail vs fail safe](https://devskiller.com/techblog/Safe-to-fail-vs-fail-safe/) - unless building a spacecraft,

recovering from failures quickly may be more important than avoiding all possible issues in the first place

- [Exploratory refactoring](https://victorrentea.ro/blog/exploratory-refactoring/) - learning the codebase through

the refactoring

- [The Best Code Review](https://victorrentea.ro/blog/the-best-code-review/) - tips on how to turn code review into

a pleasant, and productive experience

- [20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer](https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/) - a handful 

of general tips from an experienced software engineer



## Soft skills & culture



- [The ownership trio](https://alexewerlof.medium.com/the-ownership-trio-482a4e5f666d) - true ownership requires all 3: 

mandate, knowledge, and responsibility

- 📺 [Agility ≠ Speed](https://youtu.be/VnQZ24eeaXM) - what does it really mean to be agile?

- [The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoless-programming/)

- [Work on what matters](https://staffeng.com/guides/work-on-what-matters/) - not every area is worth the same attention!

- [The Economics of Engineering Blogs](https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-economics-of-engineering-blogs/) - there are 

some really good economic reasons to run a company engineering blog



## Technical writing



- [The documentation system](https://documentation.divio.com/) - tutorials, how-to guides, explanations, and references

(all serve a different purpose)



## Miscellaneous



- [IDEA - A series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions](https://idea-instructions.com/) (IKEA style)

- [Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design](https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html)

- [The Difference Between a URL, URI, and URN](https://danielmiessler.com/study/difference-between-uri-url/)

- [Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor](https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/09/data-infrastructure/ribbon-filter/)

- [What you need to know to choose an open source license](https://gist.github.com/nicolasdao/a7adda51f2f185e8d2700e1573d8a633)

- [Wooledge's Bash Guide](https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide)

- [How Complex Systems Fail](https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/HowComplexSystemsFail.pdf)