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Richard Clayton
Personal blog · rclayton.silvrback.comprogrammingsystems
Richard Clayton's personal blog at rclayton.silvrback.com covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Failing at Microservices – Please avoid our mistakes”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Richard Clayton's posts on why microservices often fail and on comparing server-side languages. Commenters point to them as useful reference points for these recurring debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The blog of Richard Clayton
Most-linked posts?
- Failing at Microservices – Please avoid our mistakes6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-08-12
- MEAN's great, but then you grow up2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-27
- Do you really need a UUID/GUID?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-15
- Speaking Intelligently about “Java vs. Node” Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-17
What Hacker News says?
This. I know that quote has been overused already, but: "Almost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up. Almost all the cases where I've heard of a system that was built as a microservice system from scratch, it has ended up in serious trouble." http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html Also good: https://rclayton.silvrback.com/failing-at-microse…
Comment linking /failing-at-microservices
on “Introduction to Microservices”Submitted Distributed locking with Postgres advisory locks as a story · 64 points
HN discussionThis article hits most of what I'd have to say on and around a question like this. It does discuss Java, not Kotlin, but Kotlin is JVM so it really doesn't change the answer meaningfully. https://rclayton.silvrback.com/speaking-intelligently-about-...
Comment linking /speaking-intelligently-about-java-vs-node-performance
on “node.js vs. kotlin as a server side development”Submitted Software Estimation Is a Losing Game (2014) as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing at Microservices – Please avoid our mistakes as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing at Microservices as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing at Microservices as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted MEAN's great, but then you grow up as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing at Microservices: Please avoid our mistakes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you really need a UUID/GUID? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing at Microservices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unified Observability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use State Machines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speaking Intelligently about “Java vs. Node” Performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MEAN's great, but then you grow up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you really need a UUID/GUID? as a story · 1 points
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