The Solo Monolith Migration
As a solo entrepreneur it’s easy to get into a mode where you’re accomplishing everything on your own (or, if you’re inclined, with some automation) until the time comes to bring in some assistance, be that collaborative development, program management, sales, customer support, accounting, or whatever the needs might be.
The paralles between the monolithic approach and the shiny new microservices architecture approach are interesting to me, because certainly when working with fellow humans there is a point where delegation and collaboration become essential, and it isn’t immediately clear that everyone is automatically capable of making that transition. I think I fall into the “how am I going to split this up into pieces?” group, so it is something I’m particularly interested in.
As I watch the evolution of Microservices over the last couple of years (YouTube presentations are plenty) I can’t help but think that considering the non-monolith approach, whether in software architecture or solo project development, makes sense earlier rather than later, so that there aren’t painful surprises when something suddenly needs a lot of attention to fulfill its potential. Fingers crossed…
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Recorded 16 June 2021, Published 16 June 2021
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As good a version as we need today:
I mentioned the Holacracy book by Brian J Robertson (I may have missed the mark slightly on his name, apologies), here is the Holacracy.org book page:
(Note that this is not an endorsement of Holacracy, which I, Dan Hugo, actually find to be problematic, both from the design and from my hearing accounts from those participating in Holacratic implementations in the Downtown Project and at Zappos…)
Here is an interesting article (from 2010) about TMON, which was a cool debugger for Mac development; as I mentioned, the author of that software worked at Netscape, another nerdie luminary in the cube hallways…
Waldemar Horwat, TMON Author and then some
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