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An individual component participating in a complex operation spanning multiple steps indeed knows nothing about the grand scheme of things. But there will be one event consumer com…

A few comments point out that replacing a monolith with micro services doesn't reduce complexity. I agree 100%. That's why I mentioned Event Sourcing pattern, not "microservices". …

Monolith is fine if you have a fairly simple process for manipulating your data. Like posting an article, then a comment, with some moderation thrown in. But when you start adding …

Today my debit card has been charged with a series of unauthorized transactions made in Brazil (and I am located in Europe). My bank quickly froze the card, but the first transacti…

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Ruby: Roda From the author of the Sequel gem. It can do everything that Rails can, faster and lighter by order of magnitude, expandable (turn on only the plugins you need), and it …

APIs you provide to consumers should aim to make their badly written code just work. That's what Linus said.

There was explosion on the sea platform and men were thrown off it by the blast to the water. They were searching for them for a while before pronouncing them dead. This was report…

The article's study found that "people really don't want to confront information that could potentially disrupt their worldviews." This thread's comments against "anti-partisanship…

> The number of people in slavery would have still decreased On what basis are you making this assumption? "The fall of Rome" was not an anti-slavery uprising. It was gradual disap…

> If you were a slave, you probably ended up somewhat better off Slavery continued to exist in Western Europe after the fall of Roman empire until at least year 1000 AD. In other f…

James C. Scott is a good illustration of 'no skin in the game' syndrome among intellectuals. It would be very persuasive to see him personally bolting for freedom between warring w…

Funny thing is that a US project of nuclear-powered cruise missile Project Pluto has been abandoned in 1964 among other things in order to "not to provoke" the Russians into develo…