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Without a doubt, Microservices as an architecture has grasped the imagination of modern development like no other. We’ve found that, contrary to what many will tell you, it defies tight…

Over the past 15 years of software development, especially since the XP movement gained traction, a series of styles, techniques and processes have gained broad industry adoption. These are, at…

No programmer likes to plan for their work to be taken offline and shutdown, but part of good antifragile thinking is allowing things that aren’t successful, to end. Applying that…

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…

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…

Don’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,…

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…