“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”
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
“Which is right, AP or CP? Well, the reality is it depends. As the people building the system, we know the trade-off exists”
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
― 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.”
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
“Services should also hide their databases to avoid falling into one of the most common sorts of coupling that can appear in traditional service-oriented architectures, and use data pumps or event data pumps to consolidate data across multiple services for reporting purposes.”
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
― Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
“I think senility is going to be a fairly smooth transition for me. —TRUE FACT Beep”
― The Curse of Tenth Grave
― The Curse of Tenth Grave
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