10 tips for failing at microservices

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A list of concrete anti-patterns and what actually breaks: adopting polyglot chaos (multiple stacks, build tools and runtimes) so teams rewrite common features and waste time; using a shared database for all services that causes runtime breakage when a schema change rolls out; building a homegrown event‑sourcing framework that forces coordinated upgrades (IDs change and services explode); relying on Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker and custom ops scripts without cross‑functional teams; and copying shared code by hand, creating a distributed monolith that looks microservice but fails like a monolith.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:44Disclaimer
3. 3:16Go full scale polyglot
4. 6:16Still successful?
5. 7:11Polyglot?
6. 10:18The event monolith
7. 12:45How to deal with shared code?
8. 13:332 months later...again
9. 15:04The home grown monolith
10. 16:45And at runtime???
11. 19:29The meat cloud
12. 20:16And the rest of the world?
13. 22:01Tickets!
14. 22:42a few minutes later
15. 25:42A system stable as concrete sounds good
16. 26:18The decision monolith
17. 26:41Beware developer madness
18. 29:23Change management
19. 29:34Bonus: works with ops, too
20. 30:38The prescriptive cloud
21. 31:10One Size Fits All
22. 32:59PolyWTF works for ops
23. 33:58The staffing monolith
24. 34:47Frequent Flyer Program Rail-Bonus Program Hotel Credit Points
25. 34:59How to do X-team communication?
26. 35:20Protect the teams
27. 35:31Establish bureaucracy
28. 35:49Enter the fakeholder!
29. 36:04shadow product owner proxy product owner
30. 36:41Technical benefits?
31. 37:04Shared release
32. 38:06And: In case of bugs...
33. 38:33The monolith starts in the head

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