Weekly Links, CW 24

Gently down the stream is an introduction into Apache Kafka, in the form of an illustrated children’s book. It follows similar projects like the one for Kubernetes, proving that basic understanding of a piece of software is not dependant on years and years of experience and manual-reading.

Simon Martin of Raspberry fame describes how he uses a Raspberry Pi to resurrect the C64-era SID soundchip for music creation.

Mad Ned shares his story about how internal competition and badly-set incentives by management can destroy group success and employee happiness.