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2022


On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again Reading List

<time datetime="2022-05-25 12:24:00 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">25 May 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>61 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

Getting back to a defined and known state is a great way to recover. I found the concept of ‘crash-only-software’ very interesting, and the described approach of inevitable improvement and resilience from software that rather crashes than being in an unknown state. If it keeps crashing and you depend on it, you will get to understanding and fixing the issues quicker.

Microservices: Why Are We Doing This? Reading List

<time datetime="2022-03-23 09:32:21 &#43;0200 &#43;0200">23 March 2022</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>30 words</span><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span title="Reading time">1 min</span>

At work I help maintain a platform used for microservices. This article helps ask the question whether microservices are the right approach for that particular application or system at all.