# Weekly Tech Update #34

This week's featured links:

-  [Banking as a Service - BaaS](https://fincog.nl/publications/22/banking-as-a-service)
-  [Becoming a better technical writer](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/becoming-a-better-writer)
-  [The Great Resignation is here. What does that mean for developers?](https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/01/10/the-great-resignation-is-here-what-does-that-mean-for-developers/)
-  [Architecting Distributed Systems: Increasing Availability Using Client Libraries](https://betterprogramming.pub/architecting-distributed-systems-increasing-availability-using-client-libraries-b4763d4d74c9)
-  [Implementing Data Mesh on Azure](https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-data-mesh-on-azure-c01ee94306cd)
-  [Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters](https://contains.dev/blog/optimizing-docker-image-size)
-  [Google forms Blockchain Group under newly appointed executive](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-19/google-forms-blockchain-group-under-newly-appointed-executive)
-  [Twitter brings NFTs to the timeline as hexagon-shaped profile pictures](https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22893502/nft-twitter-profile-picture-crypto-wallet-opensea-coinbase-right-click)