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Year-end wrap
A wrap of this year: personal reflections, the evolution of this newsletter, the best articles, and other stuff.
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Franco Fernando
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TCP
All you need to know about the protocol that makes reliable communication on the internet possible.
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Franco Fernando
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API architectural styles
An overview of the most popular API architectural styles: SOAP, REST, GraphQL, Webhook, Websocket, and gRPC.
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Writing as software engineer
How to become a better writer as a software engineer.
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Franco Fernando
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November 2024

Synchronization - Part 2
How to write concurrent code correctly and avoid problems like deadlocks and starvation.
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Franco Fernando
Work-Life Balance
How to keep learning new skills and advancing as software engineers while maintaining a work-life balance.
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The fallacies of distributed systems
Eight distributed systems fallacies that are underrated during system design.
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Franco Fernando
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Synchronization
An intro to processes and thread synchronization. Why it is critical and how to do it: hardware-based solutions, mutexes, and semaphores.
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Franco Fernando

October 2024

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