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A question often posed to us during our research and project work is “how should I secure a Microservice?“ This is a far more complex question than it first appears,…

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…

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…

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…

All Hail the Command Object This is a follow on to Simplicity in Web Architecture – Beware the Stateless Service In that article, I gave my opinion on the Stateless…