PinnedSharing Data Between MicroservicesWhen I started working with microservices, I took the common rule of “two services must not share a data source” a bit too literally. I saw it stapled everywhere on the internet: “thou shalt not share a DB between two services”, and it definitely made sense. A service must own…Eventual Consistency7 min readEventual Consistency7 min read
Oct 2Managing Version Dependencies Between MicroservicesIf deploying a new version of a service requires deploying new versions of other services at the same time, you’re probably doing microservices wrong. Let's say that to ship a feature, we need to deploy service A from v1.0 to v1.1, which requires updating service B from v1.5 to v1.6…Microservices4 min readMicroservices4 min read
May 30, 2022The Benefits of Failing FastHow do you handle an unexpected failure or system state? Do you handle it gracefully and do a best-effort attempt at returning a response? (fail-safe) Or, do you stop the failure in its tracks, let it blow up, and sound the alarms? (fail fast) The general approach that has worked…Fail Fast Systems3 min readFail Fast Systems3 min read
Nov 3, 2021Four Lessons Learned from Building MicroservicesI’ve had my fair share of projects based on microservices architecture. As fun as they are to work on, we fell into some nasty traps, some of which should’ve been painfully obvious. Here are four of them that I could gather from memory. Services should hide their internal details A trap I fell into pretty early…Microservices7 min readMicroservices7 min read
