Avoiding concept spill in API design
API design is a huge topic these days and you find a lot of information about how to design good APIs. Unfortunately, most of it is about tools or technology: Use Tool X for great APIs! Use technology Y and everything will be fine!
Unloved, maligned, yet much needed
Documentation – not only since the rise of Agile a controversially discussed topic in IT. On the one hand, we see a lot of demand for documentation by many parties. On the other hand nobody wants to create it.
Why 'cloud-ready' is not a viable strategy
Lately, I had a discussion with an on-premises data center manager who claimed that public cloud does not leverage any cost advantages over on-premises computing. His numbers would even prove that public cloud is more expensive than the on-premises operations they offer.
Why it is not a replacement for distributed transactions
The Saga pattern has become quite popular in the context of microservices. While it basically is described correctly in the referenced source, most often I see a grave misunderstanding.
General complementing recommendations
This post complements the discussion of the previous posts with a few general complementing recommendations and concludes this blog post series.
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