Detecting Agile BS

I don’t know what I like more about this guide: The fact that it calls BS a lot of what is gospel for many in the software industry, the fact that it’s published by the Department of Defense, or the power-point-y graphics.

Distributed Transactions: The Icebergs of Microservices

In this article, Graham Lea explains many potential pitfalls with distributed transactions, and general advice on how to avoid them in the first place, or deal with them effectively when must.

The solution to distributed transactions in microservices is simply to avoid them like the plague.

Our Software Dependency Problem

Russ Cox writes about software dependencies, and goes into great detail of what dependencies are and what risks they bring into software projects. I found myself nodding in agreement throughout the post. The need to have a good policy towards updating project dependencies has been a pet-peeve of mine for a while.