A couple of reads and a couple of watches.
Articles
“Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Implementation - A Primer”
Nice series of articles (not yet finished) on implementing transactional logic in a distributed system without resorting to the traditional SQL distributed transactions.

“Software Testing Anti-patterns”
Excellent thorough article on testing anti-patterns, technology stack agnostic, with valuable information to make sure we get the most out of our tests.

Coding Militia (João Antunes)

A curated newsletter issue linking to articles and videos on distributed systems and testing. Highlights include a series on implementing transactional logic in distributed systems without SQL distributed transactions, a thorough technology-agnostic guide on software testing anti-patterns, a GOTO 2018 talk on productionizing distributed systems, and a talk on using the actor model with Akka.NET clustering in .NET.

[Redirect Magazine] #23 - distributed systems, testing, more distributed systems and actors on distributed systems