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Announcing the MEAP for Microservices Patterns, 2nd Edition Contact me for information about consulting and training at your company.

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Today (Sept 24 PT) my publishing, Manning, has a sitewide eBook sale.

Most notably, you can get the MEAP of Microservices Patterns, 2nd edition for 50% off.

My new article "Claude Code: Allow Bash(git commit:*) considered harmful" describes how I put in place guardrails to prevent this.

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If you’ve used Claude Code, you’ve probably seen it happily commit broken code.

Perhaps it skipped running the tests.

Or, it mades excuses about why failing tests are ok.

Microservices rules #9: Develop observable services Contact me for information about consulting and training at your company.

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I've written another article in the series on microservices rules - what good looks like, a collection of principles and practices that help teams adopt microservices successfully.

Microservices rules #9 is Develop observable services, the fourth of four architectural rules:

Announcing the MEAP for Microservices Patterns, 2nd Edition Contact me for information about consulting and training at your company.

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Wow. Thanks for buying the MEAP of Microservices Patterns, 2nd edition.

Vibe coding: the good, the almost, and the @#$%** - Part 2 Contact me for information about consulting and training at your company.

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It’s been a few months since I wrote about 'vibe' coding, but remarkably, AGI is still work-in-progress.

I recently read an article, which described using Claude Code to ‘beautify’ a UI. Having just implemented an ugly NextJs-based UI, I thought I’d try using Claude Code to improve it.

Microservices Patterns, Second Edition - Chris Richardson The definitive guide microservices architecture, updated with modern patterns, approaches, and tools. Microservices Patterns has helped tens of thousands of developers build effective and stable…

My liveProjects are also on sale: developing service templates and service chassis; deploying microservices-based applications on Kubernetes using GitOps.

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My publisher - Manning - has a big sale this long weekend.

It's a great opportunity to get the MEAP for Microservices Patterns, 2nd Edition at a discount.

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Just in time for the weekend:

I am very excited to announce that the MEAP for the second edition of my book, Microservices Patterns, is now available!

It’s something I’ve been working on for quite some time, and pleased that I can finally share it with you.

DDD Europe 2025 - Team topologies and the microservice architecture: a synergistic relationship Contact me for information about consulting and training at your company.

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I recently gave a talk at the excellent #DDDEurope 2025 conference in Antwerp, where I discussed the synergistic relationship between #teamTopologies and the #microserviceArchitecture.

Microservices rules #8: Design independently deployable services This is another article in the series about microservices rules: what good looks like, which are a set of principles and practices for using microservices effectively. The articles in the series are:…

I've written a new article: Microservices rules #8 - design independently deployable services.

It describes why independently deployability is essential, what goes wrong when you ignore, and how to achieve it.

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Independently deployable services is a defining characteristic of the microservice architecture. Yet many companies ignore the concept.

As a result, they fail to realize many of the benefits of the microservice architecture.

Same word, different contexts => different meaning

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Microservices platforms: when team topologies meets microservices patterns - an introduction Team topologies and the microservice architecture have a synergistic relationship. When developing application at scale, the microservice architecture enables the numerous stream-aligned teams to…

Learn about the platforms (and platform teams) that organizations need when developing microservices-based applications.

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New article:

Microservices platforms: when team topologies meets microservices patterns - an introduction

Authentication and authorization in a microservice architecture: Part 1 - Introduction Authentication and authorization in a microservice architecture: Part 1 - Introduction

Here's the first article:

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Here's the complete series:

Authentication and authorization in a microservice architecture: Part 1 - Introduction Authentication and authorization in a microservice architecture: Part 1 - Introduction

I've written the first article in a series of in-depth articles about authentication and authorization in a microservice architecture.

microservices.io/post/archite...

Coincidentally, that's what ChatGPT said. 😀

Vibe coding: the good, the almost, and the @#$%** Public workshops:

To learn more about Github Copilot's hallucinations, please read the latest installment of Vibe coding: the good, the almost, and the @#$%**

microservices.io/post/archite...

Yesterday, I needed to convert a draft article from Asciidoc to Markdown.

I asked Github Copilot: "How to convert Asciidoc to Github markdown?"

It didn't go well.

Need help with your architecture?

I’m available. I provide consulting and workshops.

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