Digital Transformation to Microservices – The Approach
5 January 2022I will start with a scenario where a large system is being developed for over a decade. With time, it has become a gigantic system with ideas from so many developers from time to time and the team is finding it costly and time-consuming to maintain the system on daily basis. The technology team and…
How not to lose sleep over product customizations & codebases
26 October 2021I once heard Spiritual master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar say: “ Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”. I could immediately connect with this, as I was struggling to manage the consequences of trying to extend/customize Spaghetti Code, and I strongly felt that much of the struggle and pain was avoidable when it came to Product development…
The Great Migration: Peculiar Complexities of Monolith to Microservices Migration
22 October 2021There are peculiar complexities that threaten the success of monolith to microservices migration projects by making them difficult and costly to undertake. Unfortunately, you cannot hide or ignore these complexities. Even if, somehow, you manage to complete a migration project by evading the complexities, the party wouldn’t last long. You will end up getting haunted…
Joy of Coding? Where to find it?
15 October 2021As a Sr. developer, I have struggled many hours to put in place processes to keep the database structure and queries in sync with ever-changing customers’ requirements. Despite this, I often found myself spending a lot more time debugging/correcting the distortions that would have crept in while translating customer requirements into tables, classes, and methods.…