Archive for April 2022

Our company’s books club has selected a book about Microservices. It is “Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale” by Adam Bellemare

Chapter 1 contains intro info:

Types of architectures and differences between them:

1. Traditional monolith-style architectures
2. Service-oriented architectures (SOAs)
3. Event-driven microservice (EDM) architectures

Levels of Communication Structures and related Conway’s Law:

• business
• implementation
• data

Problems with traditional architectures (monolith & SOA) when you need to:

• add new business requirement
• grows the team and separate it into two teams

And how these problems are avoided when you use EDM architecture

There are a number of businesses and business tasks when it is necessary to visually design, change and control the execution of business processes.

Large companies like SAP, IBM, Oracle play in this market and offer their heavy and expensive solutions.

But there is also a lighter and cheaper solution in this field.

Did you know that losing $1000 and then winning $900 (i.e. getting a result of -$100 in total) is more pleasant than winning $1000 and then losing $900 (i.e. getting a result of +$100 in total)!??

What has happened in the RECENT PAST drives our emotional response much more than how we are doing overall! It is a problem if you are making important prediction.

There are to ways to overcome this problem:

This is a continuation of my previous post Real Projects with Ethereum) - about how to setup a development infrastructure around real-life smart contract.

I’ve already told about the truthseeking group (The Buddy System) as a great way to improve decision-making process.

How to share information inside such a group and how to disagree efficiently (to find a good solution)? And how to communicate outside of such efficient group?

There is a set of rules called “CUDOS” that can be used for this…