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SOLID Principles in a Microservices World

Apply SOLID principles to microservices architecture—identifying system smells and designing cohesive, maintainable distributed systems with clear boundaries and stable contracts

In the early days of our careers, most of us learn about SOLID principles as if they only apply to object-oriented programming and class design. But these principles go far beyond clean code inside a … »
May 1, 2018
solid principles  microservices  system design  architecture  software engineering  distributed systems 

Dotfiles 2017: Cutting Even Deeper

Achieve terminal clarity through ruthless pruning—eliminating magic loaders, unused scripts, and platform complexity to create a fast, honest, and maintainable development environment

One Year Later: Time to Prune My dotfiles is stable. They are modular, sourced dynamically, backed by a dumb install script that just works. But I start to feel a new kind of friction: knowing that … »
October 9, 2017
dotfiles  shell  zsh  minimalism  refactoring  aliases  simplification  pruning 

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