Issue #147 · January 27, 2020

#147: How to Build a Complete Back End System with Serverless

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless”

Best 7 links of week #4, 2020

Articles

Jsonnet - The Data Templating Language

A powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data. Built on top of JSON it adds variables, conditionals, functions and more on top of the language to become a fully-fledged templating language that is particularly suitable to generate and manage configuration files.

Concurrency Patterns In Go

A fantastic conference talk that illustrates Go's great concurrency tools like goroutines and channels. But is this really everything? How can you use these primitives at best? What are the main challenges to be aware of and the best patterns to know?

Cube.js | Open Source Analytics Framework

Cube.js is an open source modular framework to build analytical web applications. It is primarily used to build internal business intelligence tools or to add customer-facing analytics to an existing application.

Fargate vs Lambda

Comparing AWS's serverless compute options on cost, performance, and ease of use

Book of the week

Mastering Regular Expressions

Mastering Regular Expressions

by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl

Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage.