Interesting Stuff - Week 33, 2019

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

This blog-post is the “roundup” of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

.NET

Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8. We are getting close to an official release of .NET Core 3.0. As you can see from the title of the linked post, Microsoft just released Preview 8 of .NET Core 3.0.

Kubernetes Workloads in the Serverless Era: Architecture, Platforms, and Trends. An InfoQ article about how microservices architecture has evolved into cloud-native architecture, where many of the infrastructure concerns are provided by Kubernetes in combination with additional abstractions provided by service mesh and serverless frameworks.
From Monolith to Observable Microservices using DDD. This is an InfoQ presentation about how to move from a monolith to microservices applying Domain-Driven Design principles. Additionally, the presenter explains how to better maintain microservices in production by making them observable.
Testing Microservices: Overview of 12 Useful Techniques - Part 1. Yet another InfoQ post. This is the first in a series about how to test microservices. An excellent post!

Fundamentals of Time Series Data and Forecasting. This article explores the fundamentals of time series data. It talks about how very simple forecasting methods work. Plus, the article describes the most common patterns found in time-series data. I found this article very informative!

Kafka Connect Improvements in Apache Kafka 2.3. Apache Kafka 2.3 was released recently together with Confluent Platform 5.3. The release has some improvements of Kafka Connect. In this blog post, Robin Moffat, covers the - in his mind - most exciting improvements.

That’s all for this week. I hope you enjoy what I did put together. If you have ideas for what to cover, please comment on this post or ping me.