Weekly Tech Notes #2

Hello people! 🥳

The second edition of the weekly notes is here, with many engaging articles to read. I hope you enjoy it!

• Introducing Cursor: the Cloudflare AI Assistant – Cloudflare launches Cursor, an experimental AI assistant trained to answer questions about their Developer Platform.
• Why backlogs are harmful, why they never shrink, and what to do instead – A reflection on backlogs and why they are not suited for prioritization.
• Weekly Digests to Increase Visibility and Transparency – Be it for personal or professional reasons, the use of weekly digests can be a great way to keep track of your progress.
• Event Sourcing Series – A series of four articles about Event Sourcing. It deals with the basics concepts, an overview of read access patterns and how to evolve your system over time, complying with versioning and GDPR. It also provides the full implementation of a simple application in Python.
• Fleet Management at Spotify – Removing low-level work from developers’ to-do lists allows product teams to focus on solving problems way more interesting than migrating library versions. In this series, Spotify explains how they are switching to a fleet-first mindset.
• The Design of an Event Store – A good set of requirements an event store should meet and some interesting questions to ask when evaluating one or building your own.
• Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 – First part of a series of articles about how Netflix approaches system migrations through traffic replay.

Have a great weekend! 👋