Notes from Microservices Talk by Zhamak Dehghani
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I attended YOW! Sydney 2014 and thought some people might get something useful out of my notes. These aren’t my complete reinterpretations of every slide, but just things I jotted down that I thought...
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I spoke earlier in the year at the Sydney Microservices Meetup about the long path we’ve taken at Tyro Payments over the last decade, gradually tending towards a more fine-grained SOA approach –...
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Sharing isn’t always a good idea. If you’ve read a bit about microservices, you’ll probably have come across the mantra, “Don’t use shared libraries in microservices.” This is bad advice. While the...
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Why are distributed transactions icebergs? It’s not because they’re cool and beautiful and you have to look under the surface to comprehend them. Distributed transactions are icebergs because (1) it’s...
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