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SMEs, Steer Clear of Microservices!

April 15, 2024

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Newsletter June 11, 2024

Too Big, Too Small, Just Right

Hi, An old developer joke: There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. – Leon Bambrick Or another version: There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery – Mathias Verraes And there are many more: There are so many variations on the “there are only two hard problems in computer programming…” joke that I’m starting to suspect that programming isn’t actually very easy.

Marcus Held

Newsletter June 4, 2024

Customer Support

Hi, When “the customer” calls, very different things happen in various companies You probably know this from your everyday life. You have a question about your mobile contract. So, you call the hotline. A computer answers. You press 1… then 3… then refuse to have the call recorded for training purposes, and finally, you end up with some employee in a call center. You explain your problem. The employee has a script in front of them and goes through it with you from top to bottom.

Marcus Held

Newsletter May 27, 2024

4 Weeks Incident

Hi, What happens when software rots over decades? More than I can list. The software has accumulated so many problems that they can’t be described compactly. The monitoring is incomplete The deployment is cumbersome The infrastructure is heterogeneous Libraries are outdated Knowledge has been lost Background and context for decisions are missing The code is tangled … and has high coupling So far, this is not surprising. Maybe you have worked on such a project yourself.

Marcus Held

Architecture May 23, 2024

How to Get Rid of Microservices?

In recent years, numerous medium-sized companies have tried the much-touted microservices and found that they are less lightweight than their name suggests – Microservices in SMEs are often overengineering . Now, they need to be deconstructed and transitioned to a more pragmatic architecture. We explain how this can be achieved. This article first appeared in April 2024 as a premium article on Golem.de . Don’t worry: The deconstruction and transformation of the architecture is not only labor-intensive but also an opportunity.

Marcus Held

Newsletter May 22, 2024

Agile

Hi, Dave Thomas never tires of mentioning that “agile” is an adjective - and not a noun. It is not capitalized. The legendary document we have been referencing for nearly a quarter of a century is not called “The Agile Manifesto.” It is called the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” . 👈 Agile is not something that can be bought. The manifesto describes how to develop software in an agile (as an adjective!

Marcus Held