James Hickey

James Hickey and Derek Comartin discuss the challenges and complexities of caching in software development, highlighting the importance of cache validation, designing boundaries, and optimizing queries. They explore the potential issues and implications of caching, such as stale data and betraying the client, and emphasize the drawbacks of abstractions in maintaining control over caching.

James Hickey and Derek Comartin discuss the misconceptions surrounding microservices and monoliths, the challenges and benefits of loosely coupled monolithic architecture, deploying isolated ballot contacts and managing logical coupling, the benefits, misconceptions, and challenges of microservices and monoliths, and exploring coupling in a microservice architecture.