Arc Notes Weekly #41: Hype

This week, we will learn How Etsy Scaled With Vitess, What complex systems teach us about software engineering, and What do `Architects` really do?

This week, we will learn How Etsy Scaled With Vitess, What complex systems teach us about software engineering, and What do `Architects` really do?

Enjoy this week's round-up!

— Mahdi Yusuf (@myusuf3)

👋🏾 You are reading Arc Notes - Your Sunday newsletter, which curates best system design and architecture news from around the web. We would appreciate you sharing it with like-minded people.

Articles

What complex systems can teach us about building software

Incredible article that looks are software development from a different angle. 

Etsy Engineering | Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 1 – The Data Model

Database “sharding” came from UO?

This a pieces of history wasn't aware of. 

Projects

cznic / sqlite · GitLab

I guess main benefit here is being able to cross compile easier. Still early days though. 

GitHub - openai/openai-cookbook: Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API

This is really handy. 

❤️ The Favourites - this section won't make an appearance every week, will usually be something that was a particularly high point in tech that impacts us all. If you see something worthy of the favourite, tweet at @arcnotes

Architects, Anti-Patterns, and Organizational Fuckery

I've gotta say, I've felt these things a lot, and it seems like architects can be split into two very different groups.

The real “must have” tools for programmers