When approaching development of Microservices, it’s often easy to think of the services themselves as the valuable pieces of your system. each service you add gives you more functionality, and…
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January 2015
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The Original DRY, WET and Slogan Based Development Hopefully, you now understand some of my pain when I’m arguing against DRY, and arguing against deep abstractions. The original definition of…
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My good friend Peter Ledbrook has been pondering the question how can we share code between microservices This is something we’ve had the opportunity to experiment with, on new projects…
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Development by Slogan with DRY: Part 2, The Tower of Coupling
by David Dawsonby David DawsonDon’t Repeat Anything == The Tower of Coupling Copy and Paste, it’s bad. We have this drilled into us as received knowledge. We must build abstractions to avoid copying code,…
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I recently had a thought provoking exchange on Twitter with Luke Daley who is a Gradle developer, creator of the Ratpack web framework and all around awesome fellow. We were…