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Serverless Sucks?

Serverless sucks… or does it? There is a neverending supply of people saying that serverless is trash and has no value. The issue often with these statements is they need to provide more context. As always, context is king, and understanding the use case to make decisions on when serverless might be appropriate. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Hot Takes Nothing kills me more than hot takes. Why? Because they generally contain little information other than something good or bad. They don’t include… Read More »Serverless Sucks?

Build better HTTP APIs

Many of the business systems we build are for managing life cycles and workflows. It provides ways to make the state transition from beginning to end. One of the challenges when building systems is that they evolve, and you can start leaking business logic to the frontend or clients where you end up with duplicate logic littered all over the place. Here’s a way to solve that issue so you can build better HTTP APIs. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. State Machine For… Read More »Build better HTTP APIs

Is this a Monolith or Microservices?

Let’s play a game called Guess the Software Architecture! Can you guess the software architecture in these diagrams in this post? What characteristics determine which type of software architecture is being used? Do you think its a monolith or microservices? Or possibly something else! YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Evolution So, first, we’ll start with an HTTP API that talks with a database. The HTTP API could be a single process or within a container, and it could be scaled out horizontally behind… Read More »Is this a Monolith or Microservices?