libra.org
Libra White Paper | Blockchain, Association, Reserve
· Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. This document outlines our plans for a new decentralized blockchain, a low… · Shared by 85, including Ouriel @Zengo, Joseph Young, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Arti Villa, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Mark Kaigwa, Niklas Wirminghaus, Burak Bayburtlu
unixism.net
A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption
15+ min · · It is impossible to escape hearing about Kubernetes in your organization. The red hot container orchestration technology from Google is regularly part of elevator talk and water cooler conversations.… · Shared by 84, including Joe Lencioni
nature
Five reasons why researchers should learn to love the command line
6 min · · The text interface is intimidating, but can save researchers from mundane computing tasks. Just be sure you know what you’re doing. · Shared by 82, including Marcel Salathé, Dorothy Bishop, Maryn McKenna
KDnuggets
Introduction to Pandas for Data Science
8 min · · The Pandas library is core to any Data Science work in Python. This introduction will walk you through the basics of data manipulating, and features many of Pandas important features. · Shared by 79, including Craig Brown, PhD, Mark Pitman, Carla Gentry 🎶
Towards Data Science
10 Common Software Architectural Patterns in a nutshell
10 min · · Ever wondered how large enterprise scale systems are designed? Before major software development starts, we have to choose a suitable… · Shared by 79, including Donneker, Emerson Macedo, Barry
learnmobile.design
Learn Mobile Design
1 min · · A curated list of mobile design resources · Shared by 78, including Atul Pradhananga, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, ThomNagy, UX Design Weekly, Thomas Telandro, Sachin Gawas, Bjorn Larsen, Thomas Kaul, pizza.lottie 🍕, designshard, Jessel Sookha
Boing Boing
Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here's what that would cost, and here's why it won't work anyway
9 min · · Aaron Swartz once said, “It’s no longer OK not to understand how the Internet works.” · Shared by 74, including Azeem Azhar, Thomas Power, Esther Schindler, Tris Hussey, Ben Tossell, Jo Alchin, stephtara@octodon.social, Pat Kua, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Warren Puckett 🏴
medium.com
Serverless Patterns
20+ min · · Authors: Davide Taibi, Nabil El Ioini, Claus Pahl2, Jan Raphael Schmid Niederkofler · Shared by 67, including Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Balda, Brett Errington, Clemens
Martin Fowler
Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture
3 min · · The microservice architectural style presents challenges for organizing effective testing, this deck outlines the kinds of tests you need and how to mix them. · Shared by 62, including Leonid Bugaev, shishir das
MIT Technology Review
How China got a head start in fintech, and why the West won’t catch up
9 min · · Payment apps like Alipay and WeChat transformed daily life in China. The West won’t see a similar payments revolution—and that might even be a good thing. · Shared by 60, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Ian M Calvert
InfoQ
To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
3 min · · When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated… · Shared by 57, including Kelsey Hightower, dunschtig, Andreas Goeldi, DHH
UX Collective
UI cheat sheet: Icon categories + icon style reference guide
· In this cheat sheet, we will look at how to categories and think about icon styles. · Shared by 52
XKCD Comic
Trained a Neural Net
· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 51, including Yvette Dubel, George M 🇪🇺, bouiboui, Fabrizio Bianchi, tante
hackertarget.com
SSH Examples, Tips & Tunnels
13+ min · · Bounce through the network with SSH tunnels and proxies. Take your remote system administration skills to the next level with our practical SSH examples. · Shared by 46, including Charles Baldwin, Davy De Pauw
Martin Fowler
Microservice Trade-Offs
15+ min · · The microservices architecture can be useful, but to know if it's suitable in your context you need to understand its costs and benefits. · Shared by 46, including kp
Martin Fowler
How to extract a data-rich service from a monolith
18+ min · · A series of steps for separating part of a monolithic application, with its data store, to an independent service · Shared by 45, including William El Kaim, Nico Müller 🇺🇦