When Martin Fowler's post about microservices came out in 2014, the teams where I worked were already building service-oriented architectures. That post and the subsequent hype made their way into almost every software team in the world. The "Netflix OSS stack" was the coolest thing back then, allowing engineers worldwide to leverage N...| world.hey.com
When I first wrote about microservice disasters, I thought we'd eventually "solve" them, with better tooling, frameworks, and operational maturity. We didn't. We just learned to live with the chaos. Distributed systems will always surprise you: timeouts, retries, and fallacies don't disappear; they just shift shape. Maybe that's the re...| world.hey.com
Building a product for external customers requires a broader perspective than creating solutions for internal teams. It involves thinking about its delivery, understanding why decisions are made, how people use this product, what impact can it have, and how that can be measured. Software developers working on user-facing products can b...| world.hey.com
