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Sam Newman

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Sam Newman

@samnewman

Independent consultant focusing on Microservices, cloud and CD. Author of Building Microservices. SSTID🐰 he/him @[email protected]

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Sam Newman
@samnewman
May 16, 2022
If you're interested in a general introduction into microservices, as well as getting a taste of my latest book, then the first chapter of Building Microservices, 2nd edition is for you. Details on how to download for free here: samnewman.io/books/building….
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Nov 12, 2017
Don’t forget - having legacy software is often a sign of success. Your business was successful to last long enough for your software to become legacy.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Jan 14, 2018
I was in the middle of creating this slide (wrt patch hygiene) and had to stop half-way through and ask myself - aren’t we all just making this worse?
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Jul 16, 2024
My new book, Building Resilient Distributed Systems, is now available in early access form @OReillyMedia. A few chapters are available at this stage, ahead of the planned publication in August next year. You can find out more about the book here: samnewman.io/books/building…
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Jun 4, 2018
Lots of people worried about Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. I wonder how many of those people are familiar with the Microsoft of today. There are few other similar large companies I see who so consistently focus their efforts on making developers lives easier. Relax a bit!
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Nov 4, 2019
A big day - got to hold a copy of my new book, Monolith To Microservices! It won’t go on sale in dead tree version till the end of November, but great to see this rush copy.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Feb 27, 2023
Blaming Jira for your shitty software development process is like blaming oxygen for forest fires.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
May 19, 2014
Anyone can pick huge holes in a codebase more than a year old, no matter who wrote it. So don’t be an asshat when inheriting code.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Jul 18, 2021
If you make a decision to build a microservice architecture, then you don't get to describe all of the complexity of distributed systems as "accidental". That's like jumping into a den of lions and describing the resulting injuries as being an accident.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Jun 2, 2021
Finished the manuscript for Building Microservices, 2nd edition today! It's off for its copy edit. Nice to have it done. Will be out in August.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
May 22, 2019
So I've been thinking a bit about Service Meshes, especially with the whole SMI (Service Mesh Interface) thing. (Thread) 1/18
Sam Newman
@samnewman
May 10, 2017
If you want to implement microservices, the 1st thing you need to do is implement aggregated logging. The 2nd is implement correlation IDs
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Feb 7, 2023
I've come to the conclusion that there are two golden rules of distributed computing. 1.) You can't beam information from point A to point B instantly. and 2.) Sometimes the thing you want to talk to isn't there. All other challenges of distributed systems flow from these rules.
Sam Newman
@samnewman
Dec 4, 2019
I've been thinking for a while about how Amazon - specifically AWS - go about their product development (Thread!)