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This Week I Learned -  * "When pressure rises in companies you often have to prove your worth as a developer. And as lines of code are easy to measure, this is often the hammer used to hit the nail in the coffin of company trust.... lines of code are often seen as productivity or even quality of a developer. And that’s nonsense...Often the best code is the one that didn’t need to be written." -  Christian Heilmann *  The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.   What makes this story unique is that Amazon was the original poster child for service-oriented architectures .  *  Microsoft's Data Modernization Planner can help you in finding out where your data platform maturity stands, and provide business recommendations ...

The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software. The open-core model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software . Examples: Kafka, a data streaming service  Cassandra, an open-source database is the core to the company, Datastax Oracle's MySQL database software  Eucalyptus, private cloud software IntelliJ IDEA  GitLab Neo4j  Seldon Core, a machine learning platform Redis  GitLab  Odoo, suite of business management software tools Some critics argue that the core of the product being open source, is marketing  and take issue with COSS organizations that they will happily take, but not give.  xkcd #2347 "Dependency" alt text : "Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to ...