Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling – having a background in team sports (Rugby) and individual sports (running), I enjoy such posts that bring experience from one domain to another.
https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2023/10/15/engineering-team-lessons-from-cycling/
How to (and how not to) design REST APIs – although I read several posts about REST API best practices, I found this post very insightful, reasoned, and with great examples.
https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/how-to-(and-how-not-to)-design-rest-apis
Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP – luckily for the post author, all the major cloud services had regional outages in the last while, so he can compare their responses. This will not tip the scales when choosing a cloud provider but will let you know what to expect. It is also an interesting thought on handling outages as a provider.
https://open.substack.com/pub/pragmaticengineer/p/handling-a-regional-outage-comparing
Python Errors As Values – it is sometimes tough to move from one technology to another – being a newbie all over again, thinking differently, adapting to a new ecosystem, etc. It also makes you ponder concepts that were previously perceived as obvious. For example, the approach for errors in Python. Without spoilers – there is an elegant Pythonic way to implement it.
https://www.inngest.com/blog/python-errors-as-values
croniter – this is a cron utilities package. For example, it helps you find the next time a cronjob should be called given a datetime object. It can also find the previous iteration, validate a cron expression, test if a datetime matches a cron condition, etc.
Tom Ron 