Creating Custom Randomized Sequential Ids (Id Series)
Guid ❤
I am a big proponent of GUIDs as a surrogate key.
Book: Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems 2nd Edition (2021)
A book that arguably started a "Microservices" movement in the industry
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
The Void is here, and it is real.
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?