The journey towards computation started in the Middle Age and ended in 1931 when Kurt Gödel proved that, within the limits of a consistent formal system, any reasoning could always be expressed as a set of formal rules and then, in some way, mechanized.
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A Quick Cost/Benefit Analysis of Microservices
I’m not questioning FaaS and I’m not questioning containerization. I’m just questioning the size of microservices and if it’s the size of a bounded context, please, let’s just call them services or applications.
A Quick Cost/Benefit Perspective of TDD
With TDD principles (but not necessarily practices) any single method is testable by design and your code is clean and understandable. Even without unit tests.
A Quick Cost/Benefit Perspective of Unit Tests
Unit tests are a significant development cost. However, the interesting question is another: when is this cost worth? Sometimes it is; sometimes not.
Pragmatic Opinions 