Dev Links

Lists of good content in software development, organized by topic

Agile Software Development

• The LAFABLE Framework (a parody)
• Agile is Dead (Dave Thomas)
• Scrum or Kanban: Yes (Shift314)

Code Reviews

• Best Practices for Peer Code Review (SmartBear)
• We are Ruthless on code reviews (Workivia)

Code Style

• Better Boolean Variable Names
• 7 Popular Unit Test Naming Conventions
• Google Style Guides (Google)

Data Engineering

• The World Beyond Batch: Streaming 101 (O'Reilly)
• Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka (Confluent)
• Designing Data Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
• Is Kafka a Database? (Martin Kleppmann)

Dependency Injection

• When to use a DI Container (Mark Seeman)
• The Register Resolve Release Pattern (Mark Seeman)

Developer Experience

• Platform Prerequisites (Martin Fowler)

Documentation

• Diátaxis
• Architecture Decision Records

Hiring

• Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy (Google)

Incident Management

• How to run a blameless postmortem (Atlassian)

Kubernetes & Cloud-Native

• The Container Is A Lie
• OpenFaaS Cloud + Linkerd: A Secure, Multi-Tenant Serverless Platform (Charles Pretzer & Alex Ellis)
• Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies (paloalto)

Language-Specific

C# & .NET

• Microsoft C# Coding Conventions (Microsoft)
• There Is No Thread (Stephen Cleary)

Python

• Idiomatic Python: EAFP versus LBYL (Microsoft)
• The Big List of Python Packaging and Distribution Tools (Chad Smith)
• Functional vs. OO: The Debate that Imprecise Language Destroyed (Chelsea Troy)

Microservices

• The Twelve-Factor App (Adam Wiggins, et al.)
• Microservices Guide (Thoughtworks)
  • Micro-frontends (Thoughtworks)
  • Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture (Thoughtworks)
• Microservices: Dependencies and Data Sharing (Auth0)
• Monolith to Microservices (Sam Newman)
• Microservice Architecture at Medium (Medium Engineering)
• CAP Theorem, PACELC, and Microservices (Ardalis)
• Microservice Patterns & Antipatterns (Stefan Tilkov)

Observability

• Observability: a 3-Year Retrospective (Charity Majors)
• I Test In Production and So Do You (Charity Majors)
• Monitoring and Observability (Cindy Sridharan)

Organizations & Teams

• Measuring Engineering Organizations (Will Larson)
• Give Away Your Legos and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups (Molly Graham)
• Failed #SquadGoals (Jeremiah Lee)
• The Preventable Problem Paradox (Shreyas Doshi)

Refactoring

• Things You Should Never Do, Part I (Joel Spolsky)

REST API Design

• Web API Design: The Missing Link (Apigee)
• Web API design (Microsoft)
• The Secret to Amazon's Success: Internal APIs

Security

• OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

Site Reliability Engineering

• Making the most of an SRE service takeover (GCP)

Software Architecture

• Software Architecture with Stefan Tilkov (CaSE podcast)
• Why Software Architects Fail and What To Do About It (Craft ft. Stefan Tilkov)
• Software Architecture Anti-patterns (Sourcemaking)
• Choose Boring Technology (Dan McKinley)
• Documenting Architecture Decisions (Cognitect)