📰 Monthly digests: January 2024

Hey folks, we have not talked since August 2023 😱

So this digest is like a phoenix - reborn with new articles and knowledge inside 😎

So, what's new? Let's take a sneak peek at our fresh batch of articles! 👇

1. 🆔 UUIDs are Popular, but Bad for Performance — Let’s Discuss Also good article Goodbye integers. Hello UUIDv7! In most cases small/mid projects will not see any performance issues such as big companies like Uber,Spotify,Netflix. In my cases at Django projects I leave id as BigIntegerField and add separate separate uuid field as UUIDField for not exposing to external my primary key.
2. 🔄 Database Migrations - as always good summarised article by Vadim about working with database migration during a software engineer’s life . Links to complex database migration of others companies are included. Also not about Zero Downtime which every developer wants to have in their projects. There are also a lot of articles related to Django framework 🎸
3. 👨🏻‍💻 How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: Our principles, practices, and tools

Quick reference guide:

• Be asynchronous first
• Write things down . Make work visible and overcommunicate *. Prefer GitHub tools and workflows *. Embrace collaboration *. Foster a culture that values documentation maintenance *. Communicate openly, honestly, and authentically *. Strive for inclusivity **. Use emoji and animated GIFs *. Remember practicality beats purity
  1. 💽 Real-time Analytics in Postgres: Why It's Hard (and How to Solve It)
     
  2. 🛠 System Design 101
     Explain complex systems using visuals and simple terms. Help you prepare for system design interviews.
  3. 🔄 An interactive study of common retry methods
  4. 🫰 Refactoring has a price. Not refactoring has a cost. Either way, you pay "Good habits have a price. Bad habits have a cost. Either way, you pay."
  5. 🙌 Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering Taking ownership and taking action instead of complaining 🚀
  6. 🎸 The definitive guide to modeling polymorphism in Django Kinda new for me to read about InheritanceManager from django-model-utils. Need give it a try in a project. As for GenericForeignKey good explanation by Luke Plant
  7. 💂🏼‍♂️ Vendors are Promising: 80%+ Savings on Object Storage Compared To Amazon S3 Alternative S3 datastores, but with S3 protocol support. Also, Scaleway was not checked here, but as alternative can be checked
  8. 🔢 S3-Compatible Cloud Storage Costs Additional article to previous one :)