This Week I Learned - Week #6 2024
This Week I Learned - * "When pressure rises in companies you often have to prove your worth as a developer. And as lines of code are easy to measure, this is often the hammer used to hit the nail in the coffin of company trust.... lines of code are often seen as productivity or even quality of a developer. And that’s nonsense...Often the best code is the one that didn’t need to be written." - Christian Heilmann * The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too. What makes this story unique is that Amazon was the original poster child for service-oriented architectures . * Microsoft's Data Modernization Planner can help you in finding out where your data platform maturity stands, and provide business recommendations ...