coupling
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🛣️ The two ditches
Along roads, there is often a ditch or some undesirable obstacle on either side of the road you want to avoid. The same can be said for most of life, including product development. There are two common errors: Build it all yourself: You dr…
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🔗 Integration, not isolation
In a recent discussion, the comment was made that containers are not always a good fit for edge/embedded devices, as they are designed for isolation (which is useful at times for cloud workloads), but with embedded, we want tight integratio…
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🔗 Coupling
Good platforms emphasize loose coupling where one part of the system can change without affecting another. Not abstractions for the sake of abstraction. But rather well-thought-out data structures and patterns. A message bus like NATS is an…