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My notes on 'Monolith to Microservices'

Book notes on Monolith to Microservices by Sam Newman

Florian Sauter

4 minute read

I got Sam Newman’s new book ‘Monolith to Microservices’ in my handy and scribbled down a few notes that I found worth extracting. This is by no means a full book summary - which indeed is difficult to a book that already is a summary on the topic.

Florian Sauter

1 minute read

Jan Kartusek was so kind to invite me to his Podcast series to speak a bit how we built EGYM and how the engineering organization at EGYM is set up.

Key points from Accelerate

Some extracts from the Accelerate book

Florian Sauter

6 minute read

I recently read Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim. This is not a classical book summary, but rather a collection of thoughts from the book which I found worth noting down. I have to say upfront: I really love the book’s approach of only presenting results that have a measurable proof - which sets it apart nicely from all kinds of heavily opinionated literature on software development and delivery. However, it also makes the results less surprising than one might expect,…