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Sam Newman



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Don't Call It A Platform

This year (2023) is the year of platform engineering. Don���t believe me? Here is the esteemed (and it has to be said lovely) Charles Humble totally accurately quoting the ravings of some madman on twitter:


���This is going to be year of platform engineering.��� @samnewman, #WTFIsCloudNative

— Charles Humble (@charleshumble@mastodon.social) (@charleshumble) February 2, 2023

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Building Microservices: Des...
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“If you are working in an organization that places lots of restrictions on how developers can do their work, then microservices may not be for you.”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
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“The golden rule: can you make a change to a service and deploy it by itself without changing anything else?”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
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“The code that changes together, stays together.”
― Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
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