Written by Alexandra Moxin and Adam Dymitruk
On the inaugural episode of the Advance Tech Podcast we interview special guests Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd, microservices and distributed systems experts out of Austin, Texas.
Scott Bellware @sbellware works with development teams on monolith and Rails remediation, and autonomous services projects. He’s been on a five-year mission to incorporate all the good things he’s learned in the distributed systems world with all the good things he’s learned in the Ruby world. He’s been coding professionally for twenty-five years, held every position in a software organization from QA to CTO, and worked in a variety of languages, frameworks, and platforms. Scott is a contributor to the Eventide toolkit for event-sourced autonomous services in Ruby.
Nathan Ladd @realntl has been writing software professionally for over 10 years, specializing in domain driven design, architecture, and systems engineering. His languages include Ruby, C, and Javascript, and has recently worked extensively with service oriented architecture and event sourcing in Ruby. Nathan is also a contributor to the Eventide project.
Some of the things we cover in this episode
- The upcoming Ruby Microservices Workshop
- The two definitions of “microservices” one of science, and one of conjecture
- One comes from web developers who see the world through MVC and APIs
- One comes from people with prior experience in service architectures
- A common mistake that web developers make is not arriving at service autonomy
- Rule #1 of services - you can’t query data from services
- How ORMs cause monoliths
News
- Unicode being used in URLs for phishing attacks
- Mastodon as a twitter replacement with close to 500k users supported by more than 1,000 distributed servers
- Jet Brains adds F# support in Project Rider
Announcements
Coming up this May 6th & 7th is LinuxFest Northwest a free linux conference in Bellingham, Washington at Bellingham Technical College. Free to attend but you can purchase a ticket which will include a tshirt and lunch for both days. Go check it out to see lots of amazing sessions on everything open source!
Be sure to check out the Ruby Microservices Workshop in Vancouver on April 29th and 30th with Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd
Tutorials
- Directory history navigation in fish shell
Next Show
- Our next interview is with Michael Feathers of r7k Research & Conveyance
