Renegade Otter serves up an entire buffet of charbroiled sacred cows in Death by a Thousand Microservices. If you need to actually deliver a working software product, it is a masterclass in avoiding the Silicon valley cargo cult of needless complexity. It hits all the major rules of the ‘Lair and then some, its like he’s been reading my diary.

The truth is that most companies will never reach the massive size that will actually require building a true distribute system. Your cos playing Amazon and Google – without their scale, expertise, and endless resources – is very likely just an egregious waste of money and time. Religiously following all the steps from an article called “Ten morning habits of very successful people” is not going to make you a billionaire.

The only thing harder than a distributed system is a BAD distributed system.

Pairs well with:

• It Came From Planet Architecture
• Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• The Duct Tape Programmer

…and especially I’m Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass, which includes this absolute gem

Scalability is not your problem, getting people to give a shit is.