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REA Group Ltd
Company blog · rea-group.com/blogprogrammingweb
REA Group Ltd is the company blog at rea-group.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this REA Group blog post on the combinatorial explosion of versions in microservices, which led to the Pact contract testing tool. The one comment cites it as background to that problem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
REA Group (ASX:REA) is a digital advertising company that operates Australia's leading property websites and real estate websites in Europe, Asia and the US.
What Hacker News says?
I was at realestate.com.au when they started writing microservices in 2013 and we were all facing this exact issue. Out of that experience, the (now open source) contract testing tool called "Pact" was written (I am now one of the maintainers). I wrote a blog about the combinatorial explosion problem here many years ago now! https://www.rea-group.com/blog/enter-the-pact-matrix-or-how-... From the Pact docs: 'Contrac…
Comment linking /blog/enter-the-pact-matrix-or-how-to-decouple-the-release-cycles-of-your-microservices/
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