For quite some time, finding the right scope of a microservice was proclaimed to solve all problems. If you do it right, implementing your service is supposed to be easy, your services are independent of each other, and you don’t need to worry about any communication between your services. Unfortunately, reality didn’t hold up to…
Since I started talking about microservices and the challenges that you have to solve whenever you want to exchange data between your services, I hear 3 things: You only need to model the scope of your services “the right way” to avoid these problems. We use multiple local transactions, and everything works fine. It’s really…
Choosing the right projection when selecting data with JPA and Hibernate is incredibly important. When I’m working with a coaching client to improve the performance of their application, we always work on slow queries. At least 80% of them can be tremendously improved by either adjusting the projection or by using the correct FetchType. Unfortunately,…
It’s almost February 2020, and I still haven’t published my end of 2019 review or shared my plans for this year. But I have good excuses for that. So far, January has been extremely busy. I already did a code review, started a new coaching project, taught an in-house workshop, recorded multiple online course lectures…
Since a lot of new applications are built as a system of microservices, dual writes have become a widespread issue. They are one of the most common reasons for data inconsistencies. To make it even worse, I had to learn that a lot of developers don’t even know what a dual write is. Dual writes…
