Book: Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems 2nd Edition (2021)
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems is a classic software developer book - one of those that arguably started a new movement in the industry. Under the (very brandable) name of Microservices, author Sam Newman combined recent trends in containerization, public cloud technology, continious deployment practices, DevOps trends, and tools into the new SOA paradigm.
Cascade Deletion Purge and The Void World of Soft Deletion
Cascade deletion never made much sense to me.
It's not just about wanting to state intentions explicitly but about understanding the data relationships.
If you don't know how things are working, maybe you should not be the one doing the deletion?
Library: Bogus
We often work on projects or parts of the system where we expect the typical user to have hundreds or thousands of entries. Still, we always test the development system with only a few representative entites because we don't want to create realistic data sets. If we don't expect production data to impact performance and stability negatively, we will not generate dummy data.