Book: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
A classic book with teachings we keep ignoring
The programmer builds from pure thought-stuff: concepts and very flexible representations thereof. ... Because our ideas are faulty, we have bugs; hence our optimism is unjustified.
Book: Building Event-Driven Microservices
Microservices are more than just synchronous calls
Building Event-Driven Microservices by Adam Bellemare is a book that provides practical insights into microservices and event-driven systems.
Entity–Attribute–Value Model: An Antipattern?
Great idea that works great until it doesn't.
...EAV gives you enough rope to hang yourself and in this industry, things should be designed to the lowest level of complexity because the guy replacing you on the project will likely be an idiot.