The hottest new programming language is English

Good HN comment from jvans: "The thing that (a/b tests) don't measure are very long term effects where people either start to hate your product and look for alternatives, or become so numb to the changes that the initial novelty effect wears off." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=355913…

How can you tell that something is written in Rust? . . . . . . . . . . Don't worry, they'll tell you

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼 𝗗𝗼 𝗔 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 In his latest talk at Clojure Conj 2023., Rick Hickey, a creator of Clojure, talked about some great techniques to create a great software design in practice. Here are the most important ones: 𝟭. 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗮

My first book is out! If you love thinking about distributed systems and software architecture, hopefully it has something to say to you.

Blog post: Refactoring: Making sense of the invisible diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2024/01/refact…

The Bitter Lesson - general methods win in AI. incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bitte…

Herding elephants: Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion notion.so/blog/sharding-…

My thoughts are with my colleagues (and others) in southern Brazil who have been hit with devastating floods theguardian.com/world/article/…

Now available for ACM Members: "Principles of Software Architecture Modernization: Delivering Engineering Excellence With the Art of Fixing Microservices, Monoliths, and Distributed Monoliths," by Diego Pacheco & Sam Sgro.

Very cool to see our book made available to ACM members!

Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts fev.al/posts/work-jou…

After 7 months of hard work, my third book is finally out. Introducing: Continuous Modernization: The never-ending discipline of improving microservices, monoliths, distributed monoliths, individuals, and teams at scale. amazon.com/dp/B0DHS63NQH/…

Very happy to share that my next book is finally out! Continuous Modernization is all about how software development teams can improve their lives every single day. Modernize your software, change your way of working, and transform your company. amazon.com/dp/B0DHS63NQH/

It's great to see Continuous Modernization as Amazon's #1 hot release. 📘🔥

Continuous Modernization! My paperback copy just arrived. Thanks for publishing us BPB. #Architecture #SOA #Microservices #Services #Modernization #Teams #Culture

Blog Post: Expectations diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2024/11/expect…

Blog Post: Proprietary Systems and Distributed Monoliths diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2024/12/propri…

Blog Post: Services diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2024/12/servic…

Retro 2024 🎈 Celebrated my daughter's 3rd birthday 🎮 14 games finished: PS5 + Switch 🗃️ 1 lang learned: C3. Code a lot Scala 3 🧠 learned a lot about AI: 290 POCs 💻 3,162 contributions in GitHub 📑 18 blog posts 📖 12 books read 📘 1 book published: Continuous Modernization