Tools and Resources

This will be my list of tools and resources, and I will grow it over time.

Tools

Tool Url	Description
https://carbon.now.sh/	Code screenshot generator.
https://github.com/postprintum/devcomrade	Clipboard helper for windows (plaintext + scriptlet support).
https://github.com/gurnec/HashCheck	Right click file hash.
https://www.notion.so/	Productivity tool for all.
https://dockstation.io/	Visual tool for docker container projects.
https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html	Simple, free screenshotting tool
https://www.ncrunch.net/	Ncrunch is a Visual Studio plugin that runs unit tests on save and shows coverage in the editor
https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git	Powershell git environment (autocompletion + summary information)
https://ohmyposh.dev/	make powershell, or any shell for that matter, awesome!
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode	Great font with ligatures
https://github.com/awaescher/RepoZ	Some nice git 'flavour' for windows and mac

Resources

Resource Url	Description
https://crontab.guru/	Crontab helper.
http://httpstat.us/	Awesome api to test statuscode handling – just request http://httpstat.us/418 or any other (Supported) status code.
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar	Thoughtworks technology radar
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/	Patterns of distributed systems (series)
https://backstage.io/	Spotify backstage, a platform for building developer portals
https://clutch.sh/	Another platform for building developer portals and workflows (by Lyft)
https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/introducing-the-microsoft-azure-wellarchitected-framework/	Microsft well architecture framework
https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki	Netflix resiliency library, read the wiki to learn about resiliency
https://medium.com/@prachimore/quick-kubernetes-cluster-installation-22d173fee533	K8s installation cheatsheet
https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios	Best practices of async/await .net Core
http://jepsen.io/consistency	Consistency models
https://www.cnpatterns.org/patterns-library	Cloud native patterns
https://github.com/yeyintminthuhtut/Awesome-Red-Teaming	A Great resource for all things hacking

Great and interesting blogposts

Url	Description	Tags
https://codeascraft.com/2018/10/10/etsys-experiment-with-immutable-documentation/	Etsy and the idea of immutable documentation	Idea
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-broccoli--syncing-faster-by-syncing-less	How DropBox improved synching speeds	Optimization, Syncing
https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/	Domain oriented architecture at uber	Architecture, Distributed systems
https://blog.envoyproxy.io/examining-load-balancing-algorithms-with-envoy-1be643ea121c	Load balancing algorithms with envoy	Load Balancing, Distributed Systems
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/how-netflix-microservices-tackle-dataset-pub-sub-4a068adcc9a	Netflix pubsub	Eventing, Distributed Systems
https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/08/27/curl-exercises/	Learn cURL	HTTP, REST
https://www.weave.works/blog/introduction-to-service-meshes-on-kubernetes-and-progressive-delivery	Introduction to service meshes on K8s	Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Networking
https://blog.docker.com/2019/07/intro-guide-to-dockerfile-best-practices/	Dockerfile best practices	Docker, Best Practices
https://jimmybogard.com/composite-uis-for-microservices-vertical-slice-apis/	Composite UIs, Vertical slice apis	Distributed Systems, Architecture
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/avoiding-double-payments-in-a-distributed-payments-system-2981f6b070bb	Atomic writes in distributed systems	Distributed Systems, Transactions
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/25/design-of-a-modern-cache.html	Design of a modern cache (series)	Distributed Systems, Caching
https://auth0.com/blog/use-docker-to-create-a-node-development-environment	How to build a development environment using docker	Docker, Node
https://medium.com/@matryer/how-i-write-go-http-services-after-seven-years-37c208122831	A great "guide" to writing HTTP services in Go	Go, REST, Best Practices
https://jimmybogard.com/life-beyond-transactions-implementation-primer/	Distributed Transactions (series)	Distributed Systems, Transactions
https://www.weave.works/blog/introduction-to-kubernetes-pod-networking--part-1	An intro to K8s pod networking	Kubernetes, Networking, Distributed Systems
https://auth0.com/blog/building-a-reverse-proxy-in-dot-net-core/	Building a reverse proxy in .net Core	.Net, Networking
https://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=1471	How .net garbage collection works	.Net
https://codeascraft.com/2017/11/30/how-etsy-caches/	How Etsy caches	Caching, Distributed Systems
https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f	GraphQL at Netflix	GraphQL, Storage, REST
https://githubengineering.com/kubernetes-at-github/	K8s at Github	Kubernetes, Distributed Systems
https://codeascraft.com/2018/11/07/double-bucketing-in-ab-testing/	AB testing at Etsy	Distributed Systems, Networking, Testing
https://link.medium.com/GqjNyLJc82	.net hyperoptimization of count()	.Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlrAakN90D0	How google SREs solve an outage	Best Practices
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/concepts/dependency-resolution	How NuGet solves dependency resolution	.Net, NuGet
https://vimeo.com/113515335	Finding Service Boundaries – illustrated in healthcare	DDD, Distributed Systems
https://posts.specterops.io/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-initial-access-57b66aa80dd6	Phishing how to get initial access	Security, Phishing
http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html	CSV Injections	Security, Injections
https://vkontech.com/exploring-the-async-await-state-machine-the-awaitable-pattern/	How async/await works, under the covers.	.Net, async/await
https://antonymale.co.uk/monotonic-timestamps-in-csharp.html	Monotonic time implementation idea	.Net, Time, skew