William Brander

Distributed Systems Bricklayer

William Brander is a professional geek who works at Particular Software, where he helps build software such as NServiceBus. Passionate about the web, he has a long-running love affair with JavaScript and spends much of his time convincing others of its beauty and elegance. Away from his laptop, William is an amateur beer enthusiast who enjoys board games and cold-brew coffee.

Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever

Microservices come with promises of scalability, reliability, and autonomy. But if everything is so rosy, how come the only success stories we hear about are at places like Netflix or Uber? I've spent countless hours working on all kinds of microservice systems to come up with the definitive top 5 tips to ensure your microservices become complete disasters. Join me on a tour of insanity through some of the worst ways to make distributed mistakes.

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