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Just waiting for O'Reilly to drop a book called "Microservices to Monolith"

PopeDotNinja 6y ago
A few years ago when the topic of outsourcing/offshoring development was a hot topic for conversation, I bumped into a consultant at a bar. We got to talking about offshoring, and he said he has two folders full of notes, one about offshoring & one about bringing resources in-house. He said he whenever one approach starts to peak, he starts pitching the other one.
DonHopkins 6y ago
Like Computer Lib / Dream Machines, where you flip it over backwards to get the other book! ;) And of course the Microservices section should be really thin, while the Monolith section is extremely thick. Like PopeDotNinja pointed out, you can just flip the book over when one approach starts to peak. https://computerlibbook.com/ https://computerlibbook.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfwLhDDMz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfwLhDDMz4 >VCF East XI -- Ted Nelson: Ted Nelson designed the Xanadu hypertext software and wrote the two-in-one personal computing book, Computer Lib / Dream Machines, in 1974. His work deeply influenced the personal computing revolution. Ted earned two Ph.D.s and penned several other well-regarded academic papers and books about ethical, historical, and moral issues in computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines >Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature. Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. >In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea."

A few years ago when the topic of outsourcing/offshoring development was a hot topic for conversation, I bumped into a consultant at a bar. We got to talking about offshoring, and he said he has two folders full of notes, one about offshoring & one about bringing resources in-house. He said he whenever one approach starts to peak, he starts pitching the other one.

DonHopkins 6y ago

Like Computer Lib / Dream Machines, where you flip it over backwards to get the other book! ;) And of course the Microservices section should be really thin, while the Monolith section is extremely thick. Like PopeDotNinja pointed out, you can just flip the book over when one approach starts to peak. https://computerlibbook.com/ https://computerlibbook.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfwLhDDMz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcfwLhDDMz4 >VCF East XI -- Ted Nelson: Ted Nelson designed the Xanadu hypertext software and wrote the two-in-one personal computing book, Computer Lib / Dream Machines, in 1974. His work deeply influenced the personal computing revolution. Ted earned two Ph.D.s and penned several other well-regarded academic papers and books about ethical, historical, and moral issues in computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines >Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its "intertwingled" nature. Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. >In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea."