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