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"01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a23124fd8a3", "title": "Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck?", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/why-do-enterprise-applications-suck/", "published_at": "2009-02-21T04:23:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a23126ce2eb", "title": "Tracking and Trouble", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/tracking-and-trouble/", "published_at": "2009-02-19T17:55:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a231336dc1c", "title": "Booklist", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/booklist/", "published_at": "2009-02-15T00:10:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a2313ab54ba", "title": "Cold Turkey", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/cold-turkey/", "published_at": "2009-02-14T04:10:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a23142b4a5f", "title": "Subtle Interactions, Non-local Problems", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/subtle-interactions-non-local-problems/", "published_at": "2009-02-12T15:54:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a2314ae71af", "title": "Combining here docs and blocks in Ruby", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/combining-here-docs-and-blocks-in-ruby/", "published_at": "2009-02-06T16:43:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a2314f5c353", "title": "Beautiful Architecture", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/beautiful-architecture/", "published_at": "2009-02-05T21:45:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a23150e474c", "title": "Another Cause of TNS-12541", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/02/another-cause-of-tns-12541/", "published_at": "2009-02-05T21:13:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a23156e67f6", "title": "Using a custom WindowProc from Ruby", "url": "https://michaelnygard.com/blog/2009/01/using-a-custom-windowproc-from-ruby/", "published_at": "2009-01-26T15:24:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a5-3925-70ed-9274-0a23160a4773", "title": "OTUG Tonight", "url": 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AI versus Throughput original ↗

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AI Versus Microservices original ↗

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2024

Constrain the Provider to Liberate Callers original ↗

27 Feb 2024

2023

Rule of Eights original ↗

28 May 2023

The Bad Idea Game original ↗

2 May 2023

Everything We Build Has a Future Cost original ↗

16 Apr 2023

Four Meanings of Priorities original ↗

12 Apr 2023

Transactions Aren't Everything original ↗

6 Apr 2023

2021

Counterfactuals are not Causality original ↗

19 Jun 2021

2020

"Manual" and "Automated" are just words original ↗

15 Oct 2020

Blocker? Pre-requisite.original ↗

22 Sept 2020

Delay Induces Lamination original ↗

21 Sept 2020

Complexity Collapse original ↗

20 Sept 2020

Staggering Skeleton original ↗

20 Sept 2020

Weakness Invites Competition original ↗

15 Sept 2020

Scaffold or Straightjacket?original ↗

27 Aug 2020

Deleting From Databases is Not Cleanup original ↗

5 Aug 2020

Narrow but Deep?original ↗

27 Jul 2020

Consequences are not Pros or Cons original ↗

28 Jun 2020

Why did we stop at 2?original ↗

24 Jun 2020

Time Emerges From Events original ↗

19 Jun 2020

Reading List original ↗

27 Apr 2020

2019

Shared Mutable Team State original ↗

21 Mar 2019

2018

My Favorite Bit of Language Design original ↗

26 Dec 2018

Networking Topics original ↗

30 Sept 2018

Joyful Isolation original ↗

27 Sept 2018

Evolving Away From Entities original ↗

28 Apr 2018

Data is the New Oil original ↗

2 Mar 2018

Coherence Penalty for Humans original ↗

9 Jan 2018

Services By Lifecycle original ↗

5 Jan 2018

2017

The Entity Service Antipattern original ↗

5 Dec 2017

Keep 'Em Separated original ↗

27 Nov 2017

Root Cause Analysis as Storytelling original ↗

8 Nov 2017

Release It Second Edition in Beta original ↗

24 Aug 2017

Spectrum of Change original ↗

23 Jun 2017

Queuing for QA original ↗

2 May 2017

2016

Availability and Stability original ↗

27 Nov 2016

Fault, Error, Failure original ↗

27 Nov 2016

Power Systems original ↗

5 Sept 2016

Remember DAT?original ↗

29 Jul 2016

QA Instability Implies Production Instability original ↗

14 Jul 2016

Wittgenstein and Design original ↗

10 Jul 2016

In Love With Your Warts original ↗

8 Apr 2016

Some Useful Techniques From Bygone Eras original ↗

2 Mar 2016

Generalized Minimalism original ↗

29 Feb 2016

Redeeming the Original Sin original ↗

12 Feb 2016

What's Lost With a DevOps Team original ↗

27 Jan 2016

2015

Give Them The Button!original ↗

23 Oct 2015

C9D9 on Architecture for Continuous Delivery original ↗

18 Oct 2015

Software Eats the World original ↗

3 Oct 2015

Microservices versus Lean original ↗

11 Aug 2015

Development is Production original ↗

6 Aug 2015

The Fear Cycle original ↗

15 Jul 2015

Components and Glue original ↗

17 Jun 2015

Faceted Identities original ↗

12 Jun 2015

Inverted Ownership, Part 2 original ↗

26 May 2015

Inverted Ownership original ↗

8 May 2015

The Perils of Semantic Coupling original ↗

29 Apr 2015

Maneuverability original ↗

23 Apr 2015

Bad Layering original ↗

14 Apr 2015

People Don't Belong to Organizations original ↗

11 Apr 2015

2011

Glue Fleet and Compojure Together Using Protocols original ↗

15 Jan 2011

Metaphoric Problems in REST Systems original ↗

14 Jan 2011

Metaphoric Problems in REST Systems (audio)original ↗

14 Jan 2011

2010

Time motivates architecture original ↗

21 Apr 2010

Circuit Breaker in Scala original ↗

21 Apr 2010

The Future of Software Development original ↗

20 Apr 2010

Failover: Messy Realities original ↗

19 Apr 2010

Life's Little Frustrations original ↗

18 Apr 2010

Topics in Architecture original ↗

3 Jan 2010

2009

"If the last one goes, we'll be up here all night!"original ↗

18 Dec 2009

Coupling and Coevolution original ↗

3 Dec 2009

GMail Outage Was a Chain Reaction original ↗

2 Sept 2009

Hadoop versus VPN original ↗

31 Jul 2009

An AspectJ Circuit Breaker original ↗

16 Jul 2009

Two New Circuit Breaker Implementations original ↗

16 Jul 2009

Workmen, tools, etc.original ↗

21 May 2009

Minireview: Beginning Scala original ↗

18 May 2009

Units of Measure in Scala original ↗

8 May 2009

Kudos to Relevance and Clojure original ↗

6 May 2009

JAOO Australia in 1 Month original ↗

3 Apr 2009

Quantum Backups original ↗

20 Mar 2009

Update: Sun Cloud API Not the Same as Amazon original ↗

19 Mar 2009

Can you make that meeting?original ↗

18 Mar 2009

Amazon as the new Intel original ↗

18 Mar 2009

Getting Real About Reliability original ↗

16 Mar 2009

Reliability Math original ↗

28 Feb 2009

2009 Calendar as OmniGraffle Stencil original ↗

28 Feb 2009

Fast Iteration versus Elegant Design original ↗

21 Feb 2009

Why Do Enterprise Applications Suck?original ↗

21 Feb 2009

Tracking and Trouble original ↗

19 Feb 2009

Booklist original ↗

15 Feb 2009

Cold Turkey original ↗

14 Feb 2009

Subtle Interactions, Non-local Problems original ↗

12 Feb 2009

Combining here docs and blocks in Ruby original ↗

6 Feb 2009

Beautiful Architecture original ↗

5 Feb 2009

Another Cause of TNS-12541 original ↗

5 Feb 2009

Using a custom WindowProc from Ruby original ↗

26 Jan 2009

OTUG Tonight original ↗

20 Jan 2009

2008

Attack of Self-Denial, 2008 Style original ↗

13 Dec 2008