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Sam Newman discusses microservices and resilience in distributed systems
The conversation covers when to use microservices, how to build resilient distributed systems and misunderstandings about AI. These design discussions can inform architecture choices for large, failure-prone services.
- What
- Sam Newman’s discussion covers when to use microservices and how to build resilient distributed systems.
- How
- Newman calls microservices an architecture of last resort and discusses independent deployment, observability, and business context in failure decisions.
- Why it matters
- He says modular architecture can help teams experiment with AI while maintaining understanding of the systems they build.
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