New Rules of Web Design for The Worst Age of Web Design
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These rules didn’t used to exist, because they didn’t need to exist, because web design used to not go out of it’s way to kneecap the basic functionality of a person using a website.
But here we are.
So here are the new rules of web design for the hell that exists.
This blog now has diagrams!
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I’ve always wanted to be able to put simple diagrams in this blog without going through the trouble of graphically creating them in LucidChart or Balsamiq. I just want to type in text, and have it convert to a chart.
Reading Martin Fowler's Recommended Reading on Microservices
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.