Link Dump #108

You can do nothing with the weather if it does not support your plans. Yet, you have to do nothing if the plan is to read:

1. Software Architecture
   1. How Event-Driven Architectures Drive Real-Time Operations
      People, events, the human brain—in fact, the whole world operates in real-time, but businesses have struggled to keep up. With the help of event-driven architecture (EDA) and the Open API economy, businesses can now do the same.
2. Software Development
   1. API Versioning in Micronaut
      In this article, you will learn about different strategies of API versioning and how they can be implemented using Micronaut.
   2. Using DORA Metrics to Measure DevOps Success
      DORA metrics play a critical role in many development workflows. These metrics posit that four focus areas can differentiate high-performing software engineering teams from lower-performing teams.
   3. Introducing Apache Kafka 3.6
      This blog post highlights some of the more prominent features and improvements of Apache Kafka 3.6.
   4. 16 things you believe about software #PickOfTheWeek
      A retrospective on the Searls-Briggs Type Indicator.
3. Clean Code
   1. First One, Then Many #PickOfTheWeek
      The system will eventually have to deal with an arbitrary number of some element but for the moment it only has to deal with one. What to do?
4. Leadership
   1. Help Your Employees Develop the Skills They Really Need #PickOfTheWeek
      In this article, the authors recommend a “70/20/10” learning model. By adopting this model, organizations can ensure that employees not only understand new skills, but that they can apply them effectively in different contexts.
   2. Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap?
      How to address a decision-making bias the authors call the solution fixation trap, which emerges when a team rushes into discussing possible solutions before fully understanding the problem at hand?
5. Agile
   1. Backlog Refinement: Eight Traps to Avoid
      What can go wrong in backlog refinement? In this article, the author is going to look at eight traps to avoid so that you get better results, sooner.
   2. It’s Time to End the Battle Between Waterfall and Agile #PickOfTheWeek
      Embracing hybrid methods can help organizations begin to remedy some of these outcomes. In this article we look at how, with this blended approach, organizations can achieve an optimal balance.
   3. Daily Scrums Not Working? Try This Instead.
      If your daily scrum feels more like a status meeting than a synchronization opportunity, you're probably doing your daily scrums wrong.
6. Productivity
   1. Doomscrolling – The New Drug of the 21st Century
      Have you ever found yourself endlessly scrolling through the news, reading one tragic story after another? If so, you’re not alone.
   2. Escaping the Procrastination Zone #PickOfTheWeek
      Procrastination is when you know what to do, but you don’t do it. Urgent things consume your time and energy before you get to the merely important.
7. Fun
   1. AI Assistant

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