Date archives "November 2016"

So I’ve been doing microservices

Not so long ago, I’ve eventually decided to dive into the world of microservices.
I did look for an opportunity to make use of this architectural pattern for quite some time and finally was able to do so.
After 3 months of trying out the new things and learning stuff mostly on my own (the hard way) I believe it’s a good time to share some of my experience. I have no doubts that at some point in the future when I look back at this post I might be like – “oh God, what was I thinking back then, it’s so wrong”, but well, let me show you what did I learn so far and maybe you won’t repeat some of my mistakes.

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Diversify

When someone talks about the diversification, it’s usually about financial assets. Every investor will tell you, that you should spread your investments amongst different sources of possible income. If you put 100% of all that you’ve got into a single asset and something goes wrong then you’re totally screwed. Yet, it’s not only about the financial market – let’s talk about diversifying our own skills.

 
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