Joel Spolsky’s writing and opinions are evergreen, and his 2004 book The Best of Software Writing shows it.

An 1984 paper that models the time it takes to complete a project, and show what happens when you pull are up against bad deadlines. The answer will not surprise you!

All of this comes from reading everything in Martin Fowler’s https://www.martinfowler.com/microservices/, and many of it’s linked articles. Core reading Microservices https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html Microservice architectural style: building applications as suites of services Amazon has the idea of a Two Pizza Team - a team should be feedable by two pizzas Smart Endpoints Dumb Pipes - There is no smart choreography of messages or central busses, just straight service calls over http or something similarly simple.

excerpt from How Complex Systems Fail

For my own reference, here are notes I took while reading Google’s book on SRE.