week_1_2021.md

• Hotwire
  • A library to leverage railsy stuff and HTML to take care of web application features normally implemented in JS
  • https://hotwire.dev/
• Walkthrough of the the Rails Request Cycle
  • https://longliveruby.com/articles/rails-request-cycle
• Using JQ with some practical examples
  • The practicaly examples are particularly useful if you have to deal with kubernetes or prometheus
  • https://sequoia.makes.software/parsing-json-at-the-cli-a-practical-introduction-to-jq-and-more/
• An approach to indexing and searching static web pages
  • https://github.com/jameslittle230/stork
• Organizational Side Quests
  • A cute way to think about the work that everyone must carry out bridging the gap between "how things are stated to be done" and "how things are actually done"
  • https://noidea.dog/blog/surviving-the-organisational-side-quest
• Debugging a 502 Bad Gateway Issue
  • 502 bugs are nefarious and interesting to read about
  • Generally, I find network stuff and system calls interesting because I still know so little about them
  • Follow-up reads I hope to get to:
    • https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html//index.html#audience
    • http://veithen.io/2014/01/01/how-tcp-backlog-works-in-linux.html
• Thoughts on Human-Software Interactions and How to Debug Them
  • Somewhat scattered thoughts, but some good nuggets on how humans interact operate within the software systems they create.
  • One good nugget: "That's because to debug a system that is misbehaving under automation, you need to understand the system, and then understand the automation, then understand what the automation thinks of the system, and then take action."
  • https://ferd.ca/you-reap-what-you-code.html
• Build the Bridge, Don't Be the Bridge
  • A useful, if perhaps overly simplistic, reminder regarding deploying software (and arguably monitoring the software's effects when it goes live)
  • https://medium.com/last9/much-that-weve-gotten-wrong-about-site-reliability-engineering-b4b74142b25a
• Interesting Incident Regarding DB Replicas and Failover Behaviors
  • https://razorpay.com/blog/day-of-rds-multi-az-failover
• Incident Anecdotes from CTOs of 6 Companies
  • https://thenewstack.io/6-scary-outage-stories-from-ctos/