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I would agree with this article a lot more if it said that most people don't understand the problem microservices are trying to solve, but instead I think it contributes to the con…

I don't think having dependencies built into the language and/or compiler means it needs to be difficult to integrate with something like make. In fact gcc has dependency analysis …

The core of make is really just a control flow model that understands file dependencies as a first class thing, and permits arbitrary user supplied actions to be specified to updat…

I think the reason make is both so controversial and also long-lived is that despite how everyone thinks of it, it isn't really a build tool. It actually doesn't know anything at a…

In a distributed architecture it is very difficult to avoid the possibility you mention even with a strongly consistent store at the center of your service discovery mechanism. The…

The way this works is described here: http://bakerstreet.io/docs/architecture.html

It's certainly possible to run zookeeper across multiple datacenters at scale as yelp has demonstrated, however we've elected to make a different set of tradeoffs. Our goals includ…

Currently we use the restart procedure as described in the haproxy manual. We would like to get to true zero downtime though, we've been looking both at the method described in the…

We didn't intend to do a bait and switch. We mentioned this in the docs, but perhaps it was a little too buried. Our plan is to support multiple instances of the directory server f…

The changes that yelp have made are great for SmartStack users, but you still need to set up zookeeper in order to get going. Yelp is really pushing these changes for the multi dat…