Excellent resource for keeping an eye on performance issues in your codebase. It's very C++ oriented but most of the insights can be generalised to other ecosystems.

Interesting research. Can it give insights on the pervasive views of the time?

Things went too far with the cloud monoculture. It's time to remember that it doesn't always makes sense, and in the case of databases maybe it's rarely worth it to go for fully managed options.

I definitely agree there. It looks like a missed opportunity to improve the API and nudge people in the right direction.

This is definitely a useful idiom. A bit like the immediately invoked lambdas in C++ but less verbose. This is nice to control intermediate variables locality and mutability like this.