Arc Notes Weekly #22: Late Shift 🕘

This week we discuss software development pragmatism, disposable root servers, and Toyota's leaked secret key! Oh, apparently you can "unlaunch" things.

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This week we discuss software development pragmatism, disposable root servers, and Toyota's leaked secret key! Oh, apparently you can "unlaunch" things.

Enjoy this week's round-up!

— Mahdi Yusuf (@myusuf3)

News

Redpanda vs Apache Kafka: A performance comparison (2022 update)

I have heard alot of good things about redpanda, take this good post with a grain of salt though. 

Disposable Root Servers

A Database Without Dynamic Memory Allocation | TigerBeetle

You should not be using AWS. Probably.

fantastic post about pragmatism. 

How Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Software Engineer

How boring should your team’s codebases be

Projects

GitHub - metlo-labs/metlo: Metlo is an open-source API security platform.

Metlo is an open-source API security platform.

The Unfavourite

💔 The Unfavourite - this section which hopefully won't make an appearance every week, will usually be something that was a particularly low point in tech that impacts us all. If you see something worthy of the unfavourite, tweet at @arcnotes

Toyota Suffered a Data Breach by Accidentally Exposing A Secret Key Publicly On GitHub

Unlaunching The 12GB 4080