Issue 2024-W03

Published on January 21, 2024

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This week has been about Python JIT, a CLI for backups, an essay on the Theory of Building and a paper proposing decoupling physical and logical boundaries in microservices.

# Python 3.13 gets a JIT

An article on how the just in time compilation in Python works.

# restic

A backup command-line interface for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.

# Programming as Theory Building (pdf)

An essay from 1985 where the author argues that a program is not its source code but a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of the people who work on it.

# Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications (pdf)

A paper proposing a methodology aiming to decouple logical boundaries from physical boundaries for microservice-based architectures.