What is a good size for a microservice?
To be able to answer that we should start from a different question: what kind of problems we believe smaller/independently deployable codebases solve better than a monolithic codebase with a single deployment unit? I think there are two main problems microservices can help solving: runtime scaling iteration speed Depending …
Read moreEffective Reuse on Frontend
In my previous post I discussed cost of reuse and some strategies how to deal with it on the backend. What about frontend? In terms of reuse both are very similar to each other. When we have more than just a few teams regularly contributing to frontend we need to …
Read moreWhy Over-Reusing is Bad
One of the Holy Grails of software development has always been reuse. In the following post I want to focus on reuse of application logic in its different forms. I will not cover reuse on more abstract levels like ideas or patterns. This will be a two part series where …
Read moreRebuilding software is inevitable
No matter how good the initial design is it will start degrading once it's out there. Software design seems to follow the 2nd law of thermodynamics - in a software system the amount of entropy tends to increase over time. The moment something is released new requirements will start bombarding …
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