#258 – April 08, 2018
Images Slowing Down Your Website?
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Microservices: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microservices have been bandied about in the past couple of years, but what are the real advantages and disadvantages to implementing and running them? Like any service architecture, there are pros and cons, benefits and tradeoffs. So, how do microservices compare against other application architectures like monoliths, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and functions? We’re here to break it all down and shed some light on why the developer and DevOps community is pushing back against the microservices-is-the-solution-for-everything mentality in 2018.
List of podcasts which are helpful for software engineers/programmers.
Colors.sh helps you add colors and formatting to your bash scripts.
Gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation.
Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters
Zero-width characters are invisible, ‘non-printing’ characters that are not displayed by the majority of applications. For example, I’ve inserted 10 zero-width spaces into this sentence, can you tell? (Hint: paste the sentence into Diff Checker to see the locations of the characters!). These characters can be used to ‘fingerprint’ text for certain users.