Building reliable workflows across multiple microservices can be challenging.
When one service succeeds and another fails, you need a reliable way to undo partial work.
In this guide, @MDTARIK46263152 shows you how to build an orchestrated saga pattern in Node.js with NestJS, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and Sequelize.
https://t.co/ytKMFG52J7
Top 10 resources to learn communication for developers (practical, not fluffy):
1. The Manager’s Path (Fournier) — clear 1:1s, feedback, expectations, career ladders.
2. Crucial Conversations — how to talk when stakes are high (incidents, perf issues, deadlines).
3. Writing for Software Developers (Piotr Wozniak) — specs, emails, design docs, status updates that don’t ramble.
4. Staff Engineer (Larson) — influencing without authority, aligning teams, handling ambiguity.
5. Google Engineering Practices docs — code review wording, readability, small CLs, concrete examples.
6. GitLab Handbook (communication sections) — async habits: agendas, notes, decisions, DRIs.
7. Stripe’s writing culture (memos, RFCs, docs) — good templates and the level of detail that works.
8. Resilient Management (Lara Hogan) — hard feedback, coaching, and team communication under stress.
9. Toastmasters (or any weekly speaking group) — reps for concise updates and clear storytelling.
10. Practice project: write 3 docs per feature (RFC, runbook, postmortem) — reviewers catch vagueness fast
Powerful AI apps aren't built on models alone.
RAG, LangGraph, MCPs, and multi-agent systems all add capabilities, but the real challenge is orchestrating them effectively.
After reading AI Agents and Applications, Sambasiva Andaluri highlighted that success is often "about designing the right orchestration around it," not just choosing a powerful model.
Read his review: https://t.co/aduu0hw1oo
The book: https://t.co/ckJtAOIxtW
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Books to Build a Sharper Mind:
Memory
1. Moonwalking with Einstein
2. Remember It
3. The Memory Book
4. Unlimited Memory
5. Keep Your Brain Alive
6. The Memory Code
Focus
1. Deep Work
2. Indistractable
3. The One Thing
4. Hyperfocus
5. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
6. The Distracted Mind
Critical Thinking
1. Thinking in Systems
2. The Art of Thinking Clearly
3. Bad Science
4. You Are Not So Smart
5. Super Thinking
6. The Intelligence Trap
Creativity
1. Steal Like an Artist
2. Big Magic
3. The War of Art
4. A Whack on the Side of the Head
5. Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
6. Creative Confidence
Learning
1. Make It Stick
2. Ultralearning
3. The Talent Code
4. Peak by Anders Ericsson
5. A Mind for Numbers
6. Learn Like a Pro
A web-based System Design Simulator, where you drag & drop architecture components and actually simulate traffic, failures, latency, and scaling in real time
Best way to learn concepts.
Link in next post post
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
If you have a full-stack app in your local environment and are ready to take it to production, this course is for you.
You'll learn about container orchestration, managing environments with Docker Compose, & deployment.
Along the way, Gavin also teaches you about working with Dockerfiles, testing your app, and more.
https://t.co/rYCld1SC6P
BOOKS THAT WILL TURN A BOY INTO MEN
1. How to Talk to Anyone
2. The Power of Habit
3. Make Your Bed
4. The 4‑Hour Body
5. The 5 Second Rule
6. The 10X Rule
7. 12 Rules for Life
8. The 80/20 Principle
9. The Power of Now
10. Lean In
11. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
12. Brewing Up a Business
13. Rich Dad Poor Dad
14. Think and Grow Rich
15. The Law of Attraction
16. Models
17. The Millionaire Next Door
18. Rework
19. Thinking, Fast and Slow
20. Steal Like an Artist
21. The Four Agreements
22. Don’t Overthink It
23. Relationship Goals
24. Master Your Emotions
25. Think Straight
26. The Miracle Morning
27. The 5 Love Languages
28. Superlife
If you're prepping for technical interviews, you likely have data structures and algorithms on the brain.
And this comprehensive (49 hour!) course covers all the most popular ones you'll run into during interviews.
You'll also learn about Big O Notation, sorting and searching, dynamic programming, and lots more.
https://t.co/GMhF9JroF3
To encourage savings, the SA government introduced the TFSA (Tax-Free Savings Account) in 2015.
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Have you started your tax-free journey yet?
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#EasyRetire | #EasyEquities
90% of Golang interviews in 2026 come down to these 7 points. Miss 2 and you feel senior on paper, junior in the room:
1. Concurrency basics: goroutines, channels, select, context cancellation, leak patterns
2. Interfaces: small interfaces, nil interface traps, pointer vs value receivers, compile-time checks
3. Errors: wrapping, sentinel vs typed errors, retry vs fail fast, logging without losing context
4. Performance: allocations, escape analysis, pprof, when to use sync.Pool, copying vs sharing
5. Testing: table tests, fakes vs mocks, race detector, golden files, benchmarking regressions
6. HTTP + tooling: net/http, middleware, timeouts, graceful shutdown, linters, go test ./..., modules
7. Systems sense: idempotency, backpressure, timeouts, queues, caching, and debugging a prod incident from symptoms
Can you afford that house? On track for retirement? What's a 5% raise really worth after tax? CalcWize answers all three — 12 free calculators, no sign-up, and your numbers never leave your device.
Don’t overcomplicate it.
• Build a File Search Tool to learn recursion and indexing
• Build a File Search Tool to learn recursion and indexing
• Build a Rate Limiter to understand queues and timing
• Build a Cache System to learn TTL and eviction strategies
• Build a JSON Database to learn storage engines
• Build a Key-Value Store to understand data structures
• Build a Chat Server to learn sockets and concurrency
• Build a Load Balancer to understand routing logic
• Build a Reverse Proxy to learn request forwarding
• Build a Web Crawler to learn graph traversal
• Build a Search Engine to learn indexing and ranking
• Build a Search Autocomplete to learn Tries
• Build a Task Scheduler to learn cron-like systems
• Build a Message Queue to learn producers and consumers
• Build a Job Queue to learn background processing
• Build a Pub/Sub System to learn event-driven architecture
• Build a Feature Flag System to learn configurations
• Build a Config Manager to learn parsing and environment management
• Build a Git-like Version Tracker to understand diffs and commits
• Build a Diff Tool to compare files efficiently
• Build a Static Site Generator to learn templates and file systems
• Build a Markdown to HTML Converter to practice parsing
• Build a Template Engine to learn string processing
• Build a Session Manager to learn authentication basics
• Build a Token Bucket Rate Limiter to understand traffic control
• Build an API Gateway to learn request orchestration
• Build a Log Aggregator to learn observability
• Build a Metrics Collector to understand monitoring systems
• Build a Distributed Cache to learn system design basics
• Build a Service Discovery Tool to learn microservice communication
Build Projects, Not Just Tutorials.