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Why “Microservices” Debates Miss the Point

DHH had a take on microservices in small teams that is getting a lot of attention. And while I agree with what he’s pointing out, all of these types of conversations miss what actually matters. This is not about microservices or a monolith or small teams. Now what’s implied here is microservices is much more difficult to understand the full context. I agree, given how most people think of microservices. You can think, well, I got all these services and yeah, I don’t know how anything happens end to end, and what service interacts with what service. Yes, that’s a… Read More »Why “Microservices” Debates Miss the Point

Minimal APIs, CQRS, DDD… Or Just Use Controllers?

You’ve probably seen this meme floating around, and it’s funny. Why? Because there’s some truth to it. At one end, we just have MVC controllers. At the very opposite end, simply MVC controllers again. But there in the middle lies all the abstraction, libraries, tools, etc. The list goes on. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing everything in this post. So, who’s right? Well, like most things in software, it depends. But the answer “it depends” is ridiculous unless you say it depends on… which I’m… Read More »Minimal APIs, CQRS, DDD… Or Just Use Controllers?

Composing Data from Multiple Services

One of the most common questions I get is how to compose data when different services each own their own data. You might have product details owned by the catalog service, pricing owned by sales, reviews owned by a reviews service, shipping information somewhere else, and order counts somewhere else. How do you get all that data together so you can render a UI or generate a report? YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on Software Architecture & Design, including this video showing everything in this post. The Problem: Where do you do the composition?… Read More »Composing Data from Multiple Services