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Microservices, what is it not, and what is it?

Alexander Viken on April 14, 2020

During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown there has been a lot of spare time for reading and thinking. One of the things I came across was a tweet ...
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Aschwin Wesselius

Read the book "Righting Software" by Juval Löwy for all the answers to questions about micro-services. Or writing software in general actually.

The author knows more about micro-services than anyone else. He was working on the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in 2007. At a time when nobody even thought about micro-services. This platform enables developers the implementation of micro-services in the way they are supposed to be build. Already in 2007!!

He explains in the book why software fails, how to avoid the common pitfalls and how proper system development can not go without a proper project approach (vs Agile). Even if you will not agree with him, it is still a profound read.