Every week, I share my engineering notes. They include everything I can dig up on the internet, and that is worth sharing.

News

• Build apps for free with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier
  (Nikisha Reyes-Grange) - Microsoft is growing its free tier family by adding CosmosDB to the mix!

• Global Azure and COVID-19
  In light of the developing situation with the coronavirus and COVID-19, and out of an abundance of concern for the health of people attending and those traveling to events, the Global Azure Admin team has taken the difficult decision to cancel this year's event.

Blog posts

• Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, and simpler messaging app
  (Facebook Engineering team) - Some people have more significant problems than you and me. Take a look at how the Facebook engineering team improved every aspect of their messenger app.

• Best practices for REST API design
  (John Au-Yeung) - Great reminder of the best practices around Restful API design.

• Core Domain Patterns
  (Nick Tune) - Detailed explanations on how to identify and split your core domain using common patterns.

• A Template for Clean Domain-Driven Design Architecture
  Excellent template to quickly get started with DDD architecture. This tutorial contains a step by step guide to help you put in place your first DDD architecture.

• Should I Use A Microservices Architecture?
  (James Hickey) - Microservices are so confusing. Here's a great article that recaps the current state of the industry regarding microservices.

• The Pyramid of Unit Testing Benefits
  (Gergely Orosz) - It's always good to remember why we test and what we get out of it. Who knows, maybe these are the arguments you need to convince your stakeholders to invest more in tests.

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