Week 43, year 2022

• The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers - There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. Vertical separation would be new to the cloud industry. Is it a good idea? Would it actually solve any problems? My answers are no and no, but probably not for the reasons you think. Let's dive in. Here are a few useful resources for exploring this argument: Maintaining monopolies with the cloud by Cory Doctorow. [High Scalability]
• Generic types are for arguments, specific types are for return values - Today, we’ll discuss the following guideline: you should use the most generic types possible for arguments and the most specific types possible for return values. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]
• How Postgres sequences issues can impact your messaging guarantees - Big picture descriptions and overall explanations are great. They help us to understand the foundations of new ideas and then find the place… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

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