microservices
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Events: Fat or Thin
When it comes to the events, the big debate is about the contents of its body. Martin Fowler has written a great post on this topic. Some devs argue that events should carry the complete load with it, I am calling them Fat Events (Event Carried State Transfer) in this blog. And then we have Continue reading
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Extracting microservice from a complex Monolith.
In real-world monoliths, code of a single bounded context is spread across many dimensions. Extracting that code may require significant refactorings. It is rare to get an opportunity to refactor as a project of its own (in fact I do not believe that it is the best approach). So we try to do refactoring as Continue reading
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Monolith to microservices – a journey of baby steps.
Sometimes you can relate the decisions and leanings of software development with other events of your life. Recently I have had a deja vu (Déjà vu) effect while brainstorming big bang vs piece meal approach to decouple a complex monolith. A story of failed family holiday Let me tell you a small story from my Continue reading
