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Since their first introduction many decades ago, we learnt that distributed systems enable use cases we couldn’t even think about before them, but they also introduce all sorts of new issues. When these systems were rare and simple, engineers dealt with the added complexity by minimising the number of remote interactions. The safest way to handle distribution has been to avoid it as much as possib

Microservices are a thing these days. When I was at SoundCloud, I was responsible for the migration from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a constellation of microservices. I’ve told the technical side of this story multiple times, both in presentations, and as a multi-part series for SoundCloud’s engineering blog. These engineering bits are what people are most interested in hearing about

I just finished reading a review for The Mythical Man-Month on Jaco Pretorius blog. This post started as a comment there but… you know how it works. I would recommend to read his review in full, but here are the parts which caught my attention: Apart from the examples being so outdated I’ve only really heard of one or two of them (in history books), the entire book reads like a dinosaur. […] So ap