Recent tech reading

So much things going on these days, it’s already shaping up to be a pretty crazy year, in the good sense. Pretty much as I predicted at the start of the year, though it must be said that 2020 didn’t exactly raise the bar much. Pretty easy to clear that hurdle.

But that’s for another day. For now, here’s some interesting things I’ve been reading recently, in no particular order / theme:

Modules, monoliths, and microservices

Pretty common sense way of looking at this whole discussion. I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum and as always the right answer is: it depends. Inform yourself and choose wisely.

There certainly isn’t a solution that works for everyone, in every situation.

You need to be able to run your system

So much truth in this one. It requires a bit of investment, but it’s one of those things that act as a force multiplier: it speeds up developers, giving you faster development, more head-space to build a solid product and more time to focus on what actually matters.

Just consider the inverse: if you make their day jobs as cumbersome and frustrating as possible, how do you expect your development team to perform?

Any project I’ve helped roll this way of working out has benefited massively, so I recommend it each and every time. Talk to me if you need help with this.

Breaking down and fixing Kubernetes

As an ops person, I’m a big fan of these kind of fire drills, where you deliberatly damage a system and then try to fix it. Doing this as an exercise, when things aren’t on fire, gives you so much more confidence when things do break down for real.

March 9, 2021 22:46 #kubernetes #devops

Related

Comments