Reading Material for April 12, 2018

• A Taxonomy of Tech Debt — Riot Games Engineering – Tech debt is one of my least-favorite phrases in tech because it is so vague.  This post starts to make it less so.
• Ring buffers and queues — The ryg blog – Elite professionals (e.g. athletes and musicians) must master fundamentals.  For programmers, algorithms and data structures are our fundamentals.
• RabbitMQ Java Client Metrics with Micrometer and Datadog – RabbitMQ – Instrumentation and telemetry is essential to any high-quality app, and here’s how RabbitMQ’s client library does it.
• Microsoft’s object-detecting playmat brings toys to life – Engadget
• How this optical illusion made me question my reality — The Verge – For me, the image fades to gray.  Creepy.
• Macro Blockchain #1: The End of Aggregation Theory — Rhys Lindmark – I’ve posted some anti-blockchain links lately.  Here’s a pro-blockchain one.  Do you believe Lindmark’s central thesis?
• How to Do Graph Analysis on PostgreSQL With Arcade – DZone – It’s incredibly tough to beat a relational database as it is “good enough” for the vast majority of use cases.
• Java EE 8’s Security API: Overview — DZone