I know depression, but this wasn’t quite that. It was, as I’d soon describe in

7 min readDec 4, 2020

It would also be normal to have contrasting hierarchies. Some texts of greater importance will have more contrast about the background, while others will have less contrast, taking a second place in the reading hierarchy. This selection of colors is important to guide the user during their reading and browsing time in the interface.

It was the end of the world as we knew it, and I felt fine. That’s almost exactly what I told my psychiatrist at my March 16 appointment, a few days after our children’s school district extended spring break because of the coronavirus. I said the same at my April 27 appointment, several weeks after our state’s stay-at-home order.

According to the landmark, 1928 book, The New Typography by Jan Tschichold, the most important characteristics when incorporating a typeface is clarity and readability. However, other less functional aspects such as emotional expression, that is, their mood or style, come to have a lot of influence on the user. What we must therefore look for, is to have a wide range of typographic options to express what we want.

The complexity of the typeface will depend on its size on the screen. More intricate and artistic typefaces need to be larger due to their details. On the other hand, synthesized or straightforward typefaces can afford to be smaller.
Service mesh in microservices is a configurable network infrastructure layer that handles interprocess communication. This is akin to what is often termed as sidecar proxy or sidecar gateway. It provides functionalities such as:
Envoy is the popular open-source proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices popular in the Kubernetes community.

I knew it wouldn’t last. It never does. But even knowing I would eventually crash, I didn’t appreciate how hard the crash would be, or how long it would last, or how hard it would be to try to get back up over and over again, or what getting up even looked like.

In this screenshot of the Apple Music app, fonts are used in white, red, and gray on a black background. These options have enough contrast from the background for a pleasant reading. The gray texts handle a lower contrast so they stick more to the background but without complicating the reading.

The correct typography harmonizes with the environment and the other components of the interface, blends with the design and brings curiosity, inviting the user to continue reading what is being communicated. It is not about capturing the reader’s attention all the time, but about elegance and congruence.

Unique Identifiers can be generated by using Database Ticket Server (as used by Flickr), UUID, or Twitter SnowFlake. Common Distributed Tracing tools include OpenTracing, Jaeger, Zipkin, and AppDash.

Legibility is a standard factor for the use of texts since any visual obstacle when communicating will bring frustration to the reader. Using very similar colors will create eye strain, while high contrast colors will “vibrate” the words so that they will be unreadable for the most part.

Distributed tracing is the process of capturing metadata of requests starting from start to end ensuring logging overhead is kept minimum. A unique transaction ID is assigned to external requests & passed through the call chain of each transaction in a distributed topology & included in all messages (along with timestamp and metadata).

Envoy is the popular open-source proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices popular in the Kubernetes community.

Now we were in a pandemic, and I’m a science journalist who has written about infectious disease and medical research for nearly a decade. I was on fire, cranking out stories, explaining epidemiological concepts in my social networks, trying to help everyone around me make sense of the frightening circumstances of a pandemic and the anxiety surrounding the virus.

Typography involves the arranging and selection of types to make written language legible. It is an art form that has been around for centuries, ever since man invented writing. Although typography brings complicated decisions for many UI designers, the investment of time that we could dedicate to this motif will be valuable to make a design more outstanding.
Yes, it was exhausting having a kindergartener and fourth grader doing impromptu distance learning while I was barely keeping up with work. And it was frustrating to be stuck home nonstop, scrambling to get in grocery delivery orders before slots filled up, and tracking down toilet paper. But I was still doing well because I thrive in high-stress emergency situations. It’s exhilarating for my ADHD brain. As just one example, when my husband and I were stranded in Peru during an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that killed thousands, we walked around with a first aid kit helping who we could and tracking down water and food. Then I went out with my camera to document the devastation as a photojournalist and interview Peruvians in my broken Spanish for my hometown paper.
In those early months, I, along with most of the rest of the country, was using “surge capacity” to operate, as Ann Masten, PhD, a psychologist and professor of child development at the University of Minnesota, calls it. Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different — the disaster itself stretches out indefinitely.The color of the typeface should have a correct contrast with the background. Each character, word, or paragraph must be able to be read immediately and without effort, using the color of the font versus the color of the background.

“The pandemic has demonstrated both what we can do with surge capacity and the limits of surge capacity,” says Masten. When it’s depleted, it has to be renewed. But what happens when you struggle to renew it because the emergency phase has now become chronic?

Mythili is a programmer by passion and a connoisseur of fine arts like painting, calligraphy, and pottery. She writes in the twilight between relationships, creativity, and human behavior.In microservices, metadata associated with the request (that may span over multiple services) will be helpful for different reasons: monitoring, log aggregation, troubleshooting, latency and performance optimization, service dependency analysis, and distributed context propagation.

By my May 26 psychiatrist appointment, I wasn’t doing so hot. I couldn’t get any work done. I’d grown sick of Zoom meetups. It was exhausting and impossible to think with the kids around all day. I felt trapped in a home that felt as much a prison as a haven. I tried to conjure the motivation to check email, outline a story, or review interview notes, but I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t make myself do anything — work, housework, exercise, play with the kids — for that whole week.

There are many technical aspects that involve the use of fonts, but in this article, I would like to explore the more artistic outlook. In the following segments, I explain six typographic fundamentals to produce a more usable and engaging experience.

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