Development/Architecture

Architecture/Engineering

• The Platform Engineer
• Example Applications
  • Open Telemetry Demo: A modification of Google’s Online Boutique, but with more integrations with Open Telementry
  • RealWorld - The ultimate demo app, with multiple frontend and backend frameworks
  • Google’s Online Boutique - True Microservice e-commerce app, written as a pologot style service covering most modern development languages today (Node, Go, Python, C#, Java)
  • Google’s Bank of Anthos - A lighter microservice example app - only Python and Java. Both referencing PostgreSQL databases for persistence.
  • PodInfo - Lightweigth pod with common endpoints - useful for testing other services
  • Hello Kubernetes - Hello world, but for Kubernetes

Cloud Development Environment

• Codespaces: Github hosted cloud development
• Coder
  • Coder versus Codespaces (and why self-hosted cloud env)
• GitPod
• DevPod - Local tool that will spin up enviornments, based on DevContainers

Development

• No-Code
  • APITable
  • NoCode List
  • Budibase
  • Cortez Project - Golang based No-code Platform
  • OpenBlocks - Open Source Retool Clone
  • Pocketbase: Realtime DB + Auth + Objectstore
  • SaltCorn
  • Taipy: Python full-stack
• Development - AI
• Development - Go
• Development - Javascript
• Development - Python
• Development - Scripting
• Development - Web

Development Workflow

• GitOps Best Practices: Slightly heavy on the policy-as-code front (not surprising given the source), but otherwise some really good best practices.
• How atomic Git commits dramatically increased my productivity - and will increase yours too
• How Refactoring Almost Ruined My Marriage: Summary is that older code-bases have accumulated bug fixes and business domain knowledge that isn’t obvious, so take caution refactoring older code.
• Reverse Pull Request: A way to review code in rapid-release cycles.
• The Secret to Clean Code

Docker

• Containers.dev: Opening up the VSCode devcontainer.json for standardization
• Docker Anti-Patterns
• GUI Apps In Docker
• Using Docker for All Development

Security

• Reproductable Builds

Tools

• Git: All configurations should be in a version management system, and git is probably the best available. For any open source code Github is pretty much the defacto host for a lot of projects.
• JQPlay: Quick way to debug jq filters. Also available as a Docker image
• Makefile: Explained in Makefiles for Modern Development
• Fossil SCM - Distributed source control with wiki, issues, etc.

Docker/Kubernetes Build Tools

• DevSpaces: Another tool for rapid rebuild/deploy/live environments
• Garden.io: Another tool for rapid rebuild/live build environments, with additional focus on CI/CD (versus Tilt)
• Tilt: Tool for rapid rebuild/live build environments.

Articles/Books

• A Dev’s Thoughts On Developer Productivity: A great discussion on optimizing the “inner” developer loop.
• Advance Git: Advance git techniques and shortcuts
• Art of Unix Programming
• ChgLog implementing Conventional Commits
• GitHub Flow: A pretty standard process for committing to many open-source projects.
• Uncurled (Source): From the author of curl, “everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades.”
• The Command Line in 2004
• The End of Localhost: Proposal for development in the cloud
• yagni - You Aren’t Gonna Need It: Could also easily apply to IaC code-bases

Future Research

Zeitgitter: A timestamping service for git commits. Interesting idea of using a git repo/chain as a form of “blockchain” with cryptographically ensured timestamps committed…