Robert Zaremba Blog

Microservices - the good the bad and the truth

You may went through this multiple times: Why should I consider a microservices architecture? It has been written and spoken a lot in recent years about Microservice Oriented Architecture (MOA). I’m not going to describe it, because there is enough about this in internet[1] and books (highly recommend Building Microservices 2015 from O’Reilly). Here I will like to discuss which project should consider implementing Microservice Oriented Architecture.

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Useful application challenge

Every software developer and an application designer is facing over-engineering. Instead of providing a great user experience, over-engineered features frequently are not useful and are missing the deadlines.

What is a useful application?

When doing software development I like to think that users want crazy applications and complex solution. I tend to believe that the more robust and generic applications is the more useful it is for users. Thankfully this is utterly wrong.

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A simple way for polymorphism and structured programming - Go interfaces

On 2015-01-08 I was presenting different polymorphism methods at Institute of Computer Science University of Wrocław. I’m a big fan of simplicity in IT. During that presentation I was trying to persuade why we need simplicity in IT: both for maintenance and high quality software. One of the most important programming language feature to make a program source code more conscious is polymorphism.

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Frontend components in React

Last week I made a presentation for meet.js PL about React. meet.js is a free front-end meetup organized by web enthusiasts in 6 major Polish cities - Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Cracow and Katowice.

In a nutshell, I presented why we chose React among other available options (ember.js, angular, backbone ...) in AgFlow, where I’m leading the development team.

Also I try to highlight some problems with MVC pattern everywhere.

I really like a way of React frontend components development. It makes more clear for us to implement use cases views.

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