📰 News

💻 Walmart’s redesigned website looks better than Amazon

Walmart's newly redesigned website has a cleaner interface and primarily highlights products relevant to upcoming events, holidays, or the current season, in an attempt to get an edge on e-commerce giant Amazon.

🇫 Finland becomes 31st member of NATO

Finland officially became the 31st member of NATO, doubling the organization's borders with Russia and ending Helsinki's official nonalignment, in a significant change to the security landscape in Europe.

📚 Amazon to close Book Depository online shop

Amazon is set to close online bookseller Book Depository at the end of April, following cutbacks at the parent company, and an email sent to vendors and publishing partners advised them that the last date to place orders will be 26 April. Book Depository, which was founded in 2004, was acquired by Amazon in 2011.

💥 The Revenge of the Pop-Up

Pop-ups are once again ubiquitous on the internet, with websites deploying cookie notices, subscription interstitials, donation modals, and other forms of sensory bombardment in highly manipulative ways, despite being known to provoke irritation and disrupt the browsing experience.

👨 Gen Z Loves Google

A new survey from Axios and GenerationLab shows that among college students around the US, Google is the most attractive employer for men and women, Black, Asian, and Hispanic students, as well as Republicans and Democrats, followed by federal government, however, when asked about "good" companies, Patagonia took the top spot, followed by Google and Tesla.

🎧 Spotify is shutting down its live audio app Spotify Live

Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app, Spotify Live, and will explore live features on its main platform after seeing promising results in the artist-focused use case of 'listening parties.'

🚀 All of a sudden, NASA’s return to the Moon feels rather real

NASA has announced the crew for the Artemis II mission, which will fly four astronauts around the Moon in an approximately week-long flight, marking the first time humans have left low-Earth orbits since 1972, with Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Hammock Koch, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen as crew members.

💰 TikTok fined £12.7M for UK data protection law breaches – TikTok

TikTok has been fined £12.7m by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for illegally processing the data of 1.4 million children under the age of 13 who were using its platform without parental consent, as the watchdog found that TikTok had done “very little, if anything” to check who was using the platform and remove underage users.

🔑 Nexx garage door controllers use a universal password

A leading garage door controller has been found to have severe security and privacy vulnerabilities that can allow anyone with a moderate technical background to search Nexx servers for a given email address, device ID or name and then issue commands to the associated controller, without the need for authorisation, impacting over 40,000 devices located in residential and commercial properties, leading the researcher who discovered the flaw to advise anyone using one of the controllers to immediately disconnect it until the vulnerabilities are fixed.

🐦 At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free

Recent developments at Twitter under Elon Musk's ownership, including the shift to pay-for-play verification, an open-sourcing of the recommendation engine, and a list of words that the platform seems to want people to avoid using, reveal that the site has become an intrigue-filled place where speech is anything but free.

💡📚 Articles

🏖 Describing My Sandbox (3 min read)

Decoding the Architecture of a Robust Mixed-Use Sandbox: A Deep Dive into Micro-services and Cloud Computing

🏗 Inductive Bias in System Architecture (3 min read)

Designing Software Systems: Striking a Balance between Specificity and Flexibility with Inductive Bias

🏗️ Understanding Software Architecture Patterns: A Summary of Monolithic, Layered, Microservices, and Serverless Architectures (5 min read)

Unlocking the World of Software Architecture Patterns - Monolithic, Layered, Microservices, and Serverless

💻 Tips to Optimize Backend Performance (2 min read)

Maximize Your Application's Performance with These Simple Tips

📚 Learning Domain-Driven Design (DDD) — Part 2 (2 min read)

Mastering Domain-Driven Design: Splitting your Business Domain into 3 Categories for Strategic Software Development

💻 Put your SQL directly into your HTTP endpoint code (3 min read)

"Why Hardcoding SQL in Your HTTP Web API Endpoint Code May Actually Be a Good Idea" - discussing the common arguments against this practice and why it can still be a valid and beneficial approach. Plus, a story about migratory birds and a free tool to create SQL-based endpoints.

👨‍💻 Repositories

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