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Google Service Weaver is a Bad idea

Writing distributed applications like microservices can be challenging. I know, surprise, surprise. Performance, versioning, testing, and the list goes on are all aspects that make it difficult. So there’s got to be an answer in the form of tooling that can make this easier. Maybe there is with Google Service Weaver? YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Google Sevice Weaver Write your application as a modular binary. Deploy it as a set of microservices. https://serviceweaver.dev/ That’s the claim from Google Service Weaver. You split up your… Read More »Google Service Weaver is a Bad idea

Not everything is a service.

I need to create an email service within my system. The service’s responsibility is to send out customer emails for things like Order Confirmation or when Billing information is changed. But how do we communicate with this email service when we need to send an email? There’s another intuitive option that starts when you realize that not everything is a service. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Event-Driven The first option would be using an event-driven architecture and the publish-subscribe pattern. In this scenario… Read More »Not everything is a service.

The WORST Domain Modeling Mistakes!

What is the worst mistake you can make when modeling a domain? I was asked this question by a member of my channel on our private Discord. Before giving you my answer, I decided to post this to the community for their take. Here are a few that were interesting and that I’m going to elaborate on and give some more insights into why these are common mistakes when modeling a domain. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Theme I asked this question on… Read More »The WORST Domain Modeling Mistakes!