Evolving Distributed Systems

1 · Oliver Drotbohm · Oct. 9, 2016, 11:25 a.m.
I’ve recently been pulled into a discussion about the effect of contracts in distributed systems both technically and regarding team communication. As usual, 140 characters are quite a limitation for reasonable discussion I thought I’d summarize my ideas here. Where do we come from? Let’s get the elephant out of the room: everyone is talking about microservices these days. Just like so many others, I’ve never been a fan of the term, as it implies a focus on size and small. While there are defin...