Iheanyi's Newsletter #4: Brooklyn, We Go(lang) Hard
Something that I've had on my mind recently is this feeling of temporality. My older sister recently got married and its one of those milestones in life where I realized, "Wow, we really aren't kids anymore." It's funny because I can remember our childhood with the rest of our siblings like it was yesterday, just like it was last week. But, the clock keeps on ticking and won't rewind. It's an interesting thought that's been running through my mind and it makes me wonder, am I doing the most with my time that I have on this earth? Food for thought. Now then, let's switch it up into some interesting content that I've read recently.
Software / Technology
Exactly Once Delivery
This is another amazing engineering blog post by Segment in which they discuss how they achieve/architected exactly once delivery of messages with Kafka and RocksDB. Every time I read a Segment article, I always learn something new and interesting.
OpenTracing
Microservices have gone way up in popularity recently, but finding out at which point in your service calls things are breaking is crucial for debugging. OpenTracing is the standard for distributed tracing.
Jaeger, a distributed tracing system
Jaeger is an OpenTracing-compatible distributed tracing system. Given that it's well-designed, open-source, and free, I thought that it'd be a good thing to include for those who want to dabble around with tracing. Take a look!
Design
Painting with Code – React Sketch App
In the design world, Sketch has been gaining major popularity as a contender to various Adobe products. In the front-end web world, React has also been gaining traction/popularity for the last few years. Airbnb Design Tools team open-sourced this plugin that allows the two to integrate seamlessly with one another. How cool is that? Check out the source code and documentation.
Fashion / Reading
Tokyo Street Fashion and Culture: 1980-2017
From Google's Cultural Institute, this gives us a tour of the evolution of Japanese street fashion and culture over the last 37 years. This is filled with great textual and visual content and I hope it inspires some new fashion ideas for those interested in that.
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
To supplement the Tokyo Street Fashion and Culture link, this was a really amazing book to read. It talks about how Japanese fashion started off through emulation of American style, particularly Levi's denim jeans, but proceeds to surpass them over the years. It is a really enlightening read that I highly recommend!
That's all for this newsletter, I'll catch y'all next time.