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Microservices may be dangerous for your team

Last week, Zend by Perforce wrote a blog post about when and how to migrate from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture. For those that haven’t read the post, the TL;DR is that as your application grows, it makes sense to migrate to microservices in order to streamline development. I find this advice to be dangerous, for a number of reasons. Microservices as architecture Microservices were never meant as a purely architectural pattern; rather,… continue reading.

Coding tests as an interview smell

Recently I had an opportunity to interview with a company that I really respected. Normally I wouldn’t consider taking any kind of role or gig (as I run a small business), but the problem space was particularly interesting and the company seemed progressive and unique. But then came the coding test. And I bombed. Hard. It might surprise people that an engineer of my caliber would “fail” a coding test. After all, I have extensive… continue reading.