Friday links 107

1. Should my database calls be Asynchronous? – RickAndMSFT on Azure & MVC – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
2. Cutting Edge – Source Code Readability Tips
3. SweetAlert 
4. SVG vs canvas: how to choose (Windows)
5. Microsoft/Win2D
6. The Emotional Boundaries You Need at Work – Greg McKeown – Harvard Business Review
7. hxgf/smoke.js
8. Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations: Robert D. Austin: 9780932633361: Amazon.com: Books
9. My Philosophy on Alerting – Google Docs
10. The Twelve-Factor App
11. The Netflix Tech Blog: Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed System
12. A Conversation with Werner Vogels – ACM Queue
13. Microservices