Cyrille Martraire

@cyriux.bsky.social

Software socio-technical architect, DDD enthusiast, trainer, speaker, Arolla CTO & co-founder, living in Paris. Author of “Living Documentation” (Addison-Wesley), co-author “Software Craft” (Dunod). Also fan of modern electro & pop music production

French financial newspaper Les Echos clearly shows their opinion (and possibly fears) of their owner LVMH this week: 4 stories against taxing the richest and for more austerity. Usually their editorial articles are more nuanced and balanced (even though it’s a liberal newspaper)

"Zucman tax would make France poorer""France should spend less""Avoiding austerity is less believable now, at last""Zucman tax is just a symbol for populists and would be a bad thing"

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

It's cool to see all the holes and imperfections being gradually addressed in the overall AI coding developer experience. This week I've been playing around with Context7 mcp server which ensures your coding assistant has upto documentation. github.com/upstash/cont...

GitHub - upstash/context7: Context7 MCP Server -- Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors

Context7 MCP Server -- Up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors - upstash/context7

github.com

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

nature.com

Using OpenFoodFacts to check for ultra-processed food (UPF); I’m very happy to report that Picard Surgelés, a French company manufacturing and selling frozen products, updated many products to remove most or all its additives! ❤️ Half of tested even went from NOVA 4 to 3. Now updating the DB.

From an engineering perspective, software wants to be decoupled. From a business value perspective, software wants to be deeply interconnected. That's the fundamental friction that software design, and Domain-Driven Design specifically, attempts to address.

Feature Flag Alternatives to consider: • Better Split (of user stories) • GoF Design Patterns • Domain-Driven Design • Strangler Application Pattern • Branch By Abstraction • Circuit breaker Dorra BARTAGUIZ at #DDDEU

Dorra on stage with the screen recapitulating alternatives to feature flags