It Depends #29

Hello Everyone!

The twenty-ninth edition of my weekly newsletter “It Depends” is out! Check it out.

This week I talk about self-documenting code. While I don’t think there is a complete replacement for the various forms of documentation of code (design docs, comments, good design, etc), there is a certain underlying principle that I believe allows a codebase to explain both the why of its intent and the how of its execution.

From the internet, Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton on why monoliths-vs-microservices is the wrong question to ask, a book recommendation on the evolution of computing, and Javier Ramos with a comparison of pulsar and Kafka.

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Cheers!

Kislay