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1. Monolithic applications and architectures  can vary in their monolithness. This is an under-specified description.
2. Microservice applications and architectures can vary in their microness. This is an under-specified description.
3. Microservices and monolithic architectures have both benefits and disadvantages.
4. Organizations will exploit those benefits while working around any weaknesses.
5. Success of the business is a large influence on the exploitation of benefits and implementation and costs of workarounds.
6. All benefits and work arounds are context-sensitive. Meaning that they are both technically and socially constructed by the organization that navigates them. 
7. Path dependency is a thing. History matters and manifests in these architectural decisions and evolution in an organization. 
8. Patterns exist to inform practice, not dictate it. Zealous adherence to an architectural pattern brings peril when it is to the exclusion of cultural context in actual practice.
9. Architectural patterns w

xaviershay

Hello Github,

Pull requests are not serving me well on large reviews. Here are some problems and suggested enhancements that would make me happy.

• Mark comment as "resolved" (see google docs for an example). As code changes, comments get lost or made redundant, and it is not clear (to either the author or reviewers) which are still relevant and which have been addressed. Resolving a comment doesn't need to make it dissappear, but I need to be able to see "which comments have not been addressed" somehow. This feature would be the most useful to me.
• Reply to a comment. This can be done in effect on line comments (assuming there is only one), but cannot on PR comments. Particularly with many threads, the lack of this makes a review hard to follow.
• Explicit "approve/block" life cycle. The block is actually more important to me ... often on a PR that has been incrementally improved I want to "block" final merge of it until I get a chance to rebase/squash and generally pretty it up. The block can be over

hughevans

web: bundle exec puma -p $PORT -C config/puma.rb

mattetti

# Hack to change the Rails cookie serializer from Marshal to JSON and therefore allow the session
# to be shared between different languages but also avoid that someone knowing the
# cookie secret key could execute arbitrary code on the server by unmarshalling
# modified Ruby code added to the session/permanent cookie.
#
# Note that all users will beed to login again since both the remember me cookie and the session cookies
# won't be valid. Note also that the remember me cookie is tested multiple times per request even when it fails.
# for performance reasons you might want to delete it if these extra cycles are too costly for you.
#
# Rails 4 (not tested on Rails 3).

lox

Aggregating multiple top-level web applications

Ideally we'd be able to compose 99designs.com out of several top-level web applications. There are many challenges with this, for instance:

• How do we manage routing and route generation, cross-application?
• How do we manage sessions without shared db access?
• How do we handle shared UI like alert bars and unified headers?

On the whole, these problems are solvable. For routing we could just use Varnish, with some custom code to read routemaps from the apps, or we could use something like Mongrel2. Alternately, a Go-lang HTTP/SPDY terminator would be pretty damn quick and flexible.

benhoskings

{
	"auto_complete_commit_on_tab": true,
	"auto_complete_delay": 30,
	"bold_folder_labels": true,
	"caret_style": "wide",
	"color_scheme": "Packages/User/Ben's Solarized (light).tmTheme",
	"detect_indentation": false,
	"detect_slow_plugins": false,
	"dictionary": "Packages/Language - English/en_GB.dic",
	"drag_text": false,

bmizerany

package main

func main() {
	// ... setup ...

	l, err := net.Listen("tcp", *laddr)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

toolmantim

# A simple Makefile alternative to using Grunt for your static asset compilation
#
## Usage
#
#   $ npm install
#
# And then you can run various commands:
#
#   $ make            # compile files that need compiling
#   $ make clean all  # remove target files and recompile from scratch

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application: