Recorded and produced a new podcast episode about microservices. For my podcast hosting project I need some place to store podcast episodes and therefore I finally automated the setup of minio. Let see if it will be fast enough :). Did a bugfix release of kptncook. And started to collect information about deployed services which then could be used by other services doing logging, monitoring or backup.

Things I Learned

• If you don't want to run your minio installation publicly this ssh-portforwarding command works (you have to change username and ports): ssh -v -L  10000:127.0.0.1:10000 -L 10001:127.0.0.1:10001 minio@staging.wersdoerfer.de

Books

• Fluent Python, 2nd Edition | Just released -> instant buy..

Articles

• OpenTelemetry and Python: A Complete Instrumentation Guide
• Cython is 20!
• Garlic Presses Are the Devil | FInally someone said it!
• Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance | Wow, joke explanation is really impressive
• Yes, You Can Charge More | As a freelancer, I approve the message :)
• Weeklog for Week 13: March 28 to April 03 | Great stuff
• The Majestic Monolith | Old article, but still good
• In defense of simple architectures | I would not use eventlet today and I beg to differ on graphql and kubernetes.. but the general direction: full ack
• How to Squash and Rebase a Git Branch

Software

• django-postgres-metrics | A Django application that exposes a bunch of PostgreSQL database metrics.
• crab is a simple unix toolkit for working with local development environments

Twitter

• This article is great! I didn't know that you could put form inputs outside of the nested <form> tag and specify the form they belong to with form=
• ENTP vs IMDB | ROFL
• DALL·E is impressive
• About Twitter advanced search | I didn't know about this
• "Did you come to my school when I was little and show me dinosaur poo?"
• News from cryptozoology | Hard evidence, just for once..
• Very impressive---indeed, awe-inspiring---AI demos this last week, e.g., from OpenAI (image generation) and Google (text generation). These demos seem to convince many people that current AI is getting closer and closer to human-level intelligence. 🧵 | I'm not sure whether those problems are too hard or there's just not enough interest in solving them..

Podcasts

• Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices (InfoQ Podcast) | In preparation for own microservices episode
• Folge 99 - Sam Newman - Monolith to Microservices (Software Architektur im Stream) | dito
• Sam Newman on Information Hiding, Ubiquitous Language, UI Decomposition and Building Microservices (InfoQ Podcast) | dito
• WR1347 Bruttointelligenzprodukt (WRINT - Wissenschaft)
• WR1349 Embargo: Modelle, Zölle, Anreize (WRINT - Wirtschaftskunde) | What I like most about this podcast is to get a glance at the economic viewpoint, which is usually really foreign to me. Highlights: Maybe just use tariffs and form a price cartel to rob gas/oil from russia (they have to go down with their own price to be able to sell at market price). Those who scream loudest about oil/gas from russia being not substitutable are those who are most afraid of being substituted.
• Intelligente Kraken - Aliens mit neun Gehirnen (Sein und Streit) | Octopus cannot see color with their eyes, but with their arms :€ and the information about color and ground structure does not need to be transferred to the central brain, because each arm has one (bigger than the central one). They build "houses" with an individual aesthetic and get angry if you mess it up.
• Machtvoll? - Kunstwerke (Das philosophische Radio) | It's weird, every time I listen to Markus Gabriel talking about abstract topics I'm not familiar with, I'm thinking: Hmm, interesting and eloquent. Everytime I hear him say concrete things about topics I know about (computer stuff), I'm like: Wow, this is complete bullshit. Not sure what to make of this. But there were a lot of intereting definitions of art: From having no intent/purpose (Kant) to showing how things really are (which needs to be intentional, Klee) to art is the definition of art (Kosuth). Kept me entertained at least while doing sports.
• Andrew Song of Whisper AI on solving hearing loss with AI (The robot brains) 
• Föderation Mehr als nur Mastodon (Der INNOQ Podcast) | meh
• UKW096 Ukraine: Weltkrieg 2.5 (Unsere kleine Welt) | Really long
• Verletzlichkeit macht nahbar - über Vulnerabilität und was wir daraus lernen können (Was denkst du denn?) | Meh
• Rhetorik zwischen Wahrheit und Propaganda - das Handwerk der Glaubwürdigkeit (Sein und Streit) | Also meh