Comsysto’s Fast & Curious #2

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4 min readDec 21, 2021

This is our second edition of Comsysto’s Fast & Curious! All Comsysto colleagues gathered interesting blogs, articles and events that we shared among ourselves within the last month. We decided to spread these to the public community as well since knowledge sharing is very important to us, we want you to benefit from it too.

As a nice and inspiring reading proposal for the Christmas days, we came up with the following topics this month: Our significant carbon footprint on the environment as techies, HTTP/3, and how to learn git with a gamified tutorial. Get also inspired by the ebook about 3 ideas that can change your life or read the article about 5 levels of remote work and why you’re probably at level 2. For the creative ones around us, have you heard about Google’s GCP sketchnotes and when they use them? Next to Google our colleague Stefan was more focused on the Java Version Almanac this month, while Amir, Marco, and Katie shared some random and funny stuff about Log4j memes, retrospectives, leadership, and how to win Monopoly.

Ivan A.

“How to Work in Tech and Not Wreck the Planet” is a gentle reminder that our work as techies can have a significant carbon footprint on the environment, but also that we can do something to mitigate that. The talk outlines the problems with over-provisioning, under-utilization, and -workloads and offers solutions. How to Work in Tech and Not Wreck the Planet

Norman

Brace yourselves — HTTP/3 is coming: https://requestmetrics.com/web-performance/http3-is-fast?utm_content=bufferf36ec&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Michael

You are new to git, or want to step up your game? https://learngitbranching.js.org/ is an interactive, gamified tutorial from the very basics to quite advanced.

Ivan S.

I found an interesting (and short) ebook. It explains three powerful ideas and how to use them in our everyday life to increase general well-being, productivity, self-control, etc.

The Two Minds
How to 80/20 Your Life
The Prime Belief

The book has 21 pages, but it reads very fast and fluidly. https://oktobdz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/oktobdz-3-Ideas-That-Can-Change-Your-Life.pdf

By the way, markmanson.net is also worth checking out.

Slaven

GCP sketchnotes: Every product in the Google Cloud family is described in the visual sketchnote format to grasp the capability of the tools quickly and easily. https://github.com/priyankavergadia/GCPSketchnote

Korbinian

5 levels of remote work and why you’re probably at level 2. Are you? Make a self-check: https://medium.com/swlh/the-five-levels-of-remote-work-and-why-youre-probably-at-level-2-ccaf05a25b9c

Stefan

The Java Version Almanac is a collection of information about the history and future of Java. What I found interesting is the possibility to compare java releases with each other based on the API.