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Feb 2023

The Microservice Migration

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"Why aren't we using microservices?"

It was an odd way to start a meeting, but it got Mr. TA's attention. TA was contracting with a client, and sitting in a meeting with their senior architects. TA and one of his peers exchanged a glance and a small eye-roll. They knew exactly what had happened: Alvin, the senior architect, had learned about a new fad.


Getting Lost in the World

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Unit tests are important, but unit tests alone don't guarantee a good code base. Sandra, still suffering at InitAg brings us a bug that was sitting in their project for months, undetected.

In this case, Sandra's team needed to work with geographic information. Now, this is hard. Geography is hard. Maps are hard. Coordinate systems are hard.