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“Caching can be very powerful indeed, but you need to understand the full path of data that is cached from source to destination to really appreciate its complexities and what can go wrong”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

“You’ll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven’t. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I’ve learned that you don’t beat math.”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

“Two different pieces of technology, Swagger and HAL, try to make this a reality, and both are worth looking at.”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

“I get asked this question a lot. My first piece of advice would be that the less well you understand a domain, the harder it will be for you to find proper bounded contexts for your services. As we discussed previously, getting service boundaries wrong can result in having to make lots of changes in service-to-service collaboration — an expensive operation. So if you’re coming to a monolithic system for which you don’t understand the domain, spend some time learning what the system does first, and then look to identify clean module boundaries prior to splitting out services.”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems