Double Shot #2484

Posting may be a bit light next week: I'm traveling for some much-needed vacation and our annual company retreat. Enjoy the holidays!

• Similarity in Postgres and Rails using Trigrams - You can build simple "did you mean" searching using only a PostgreSQL extension.
• WebPipe - "web_pipe is a modular rack application builder through a pipe of operations on an immutable struct."
• Design challenges in interviews — how not to? - Developers aren't the only ones struggling with overly-complex interview processes.
• Risk-First - Thinking about software development through the lens of risk.
• Successfully Merging the Work of 1000+ Developers - Collaboration at Shopify's scale.
• So you want to learn Microservices? - Quick summaries and lots of links.
• An Interview on What Makes Postgres Unique (Extensions) - Chatting with one of the folks from Citus.
• EasyDB - "EasyDB is a one-click, hosted database provider." Free but ephemeral.
• Remote Work Encylopedia - Tactical advice from the team at Moonlight.
• Bits on the Wire - Tim Bray offers a survey of object encoding methods for the internet.
• Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is really terrible - Yeah, it is, if you're the sort of person who types Markdown by hand.
• Slack Disable WYSIWYG Bookmarklet - Slack users fight back.
• Developer Roadmaps - "Step by step guides and paths to learn different tools or technologies."
• Learn GraphQL + MongoDB Security Vulnerabilities - If you don't know about NoSQL injection, you probably should.
• LicenseZero Public Roadmap - An interesting effort to enable open source + commercial licensing with an easy interface for developers (think about the way LetsEncrypt certificates work as a very rough analogy).