📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE

Software projects are filled with all these hard decisions. Deciding between making use of a known technology or pattern versus picking something entirely new is one of the most difficult and impactful ones. In this episode, Grzegorz Godlewski, Artur Wolny and Marek Urbanowicz discuss how they approach this particular type of decision. Tune in for valuable insights!

📑 TOPICS COVERED

👉 When we think it's good to go with the solutions we already know
👉 What are the benefits of embracing the unknown
👉 What are the factors you should take into account while making such decisions
👉 Considering the macro, impact of the decision on your and other teams

⌚ TIMELINE

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:24 - Examples of choices we had to make
00:05:24 - What can drive the decision making process
00:10:00 - Unknown as a possibility for learning
00:13:59 - Proof of Concept implementations - a way to explore
00:19:30 - When would we go for "the new" solution to a problem
00:23:52 - When would we stay with "the known" solution to a problem
00:27:04 - Wrap up

🔗 LINKS FROM EPISODE

https://twitter.com/GregBDavies/status/1144530496078123009

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Grzegorz Godlewski
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Marek Urbanowicz
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Artur Wolny
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/

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Are you considering moving to Monorepos with your projects? In the 22th episode Grzegorz, Artur and Marek share their valueable opinions and experiences realted to working with these. Tune in to learn about the potential benefits and challenges of this approach.

📑 TOPICS COVERED

👉 We share subjective opinions and experiences from working with Monorepos in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
👉 We talk about hidden complexity - when a "simplification" on one end results with higher complexity in other areas
👉 We comment on the state of tooling for Monorepos specific in the JS/TS ecosystem

⌚ TIMELINE

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:12 - Subjective opinions on Monorepos
00:03:58 - Benefits and challenges of Monorepos
00:26:20 - Recap and closing thoughts

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Grzegorz Godlewski
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Marek Urbanowicz
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Artur Wolny
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📚 ABOUT THE EPISODE

In the 21th episode Grzegorz Godlewski and Artur Wolny share their negative experiences with implementing Microservices. Three examples of misuse of that useful pattern shows us that even the greatest idea can lead us down the blind alley, when we are narrow-minded about it.

Listen and take conclusions from those lessons that we learned!

📑 TOPICS COVERED

👉 Impact of blindly following recommendations: costly premature optimisations.
👉 Thing that might go wrong when you're focused too much on domain assignment of feature and too less on the app maintainability.
👉 How microservice hype-trains and poor organisational decisions lead to project failure.

⌚ TIMELINE

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:08 - Story #1: Blindly following recommendations.
00:08:22 - Story #2: Too much domain, too little maintainability.
00:14:20 - Story #3: Microservice hype-train.
00:19:15 - Microservices or monolith? Benefits & drawbacks.
00:34:46 - Outro

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Grzegorz Godlewski
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Marek Urbanowicz
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/UrbanowiczDev

Artur Wolny
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wolny-35150664/