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Supermarket Meeting: The Secret to Cutting Down Useless Meetings
A Supermarket Meeting is a consolidated approach to recurring meetings, where diverse topics are discussed in one weekly session, similar to how you’d buy various items in one trip to the supermarket. Instead of creating multiple specialized meetings for different subjects, a supermarket meeting gathers all related discussions into a single, regular time slot. This maximizes productivity, ensures efficient use of time, and keeps meetings engaging and relevant.
3 Mistakes That Give Microservices a Bad Name
I’m sad to see that microservices are falling in popularity among architects and developers. Some say they are unnecessarily complex or overengineered. That one needs to learn so many new tools and technologies. That they introduce problems we had already solved. However, many ‘do microservices’ (unintentionally) wrong…
Why Developers Should Stop Using ISO 8601 for Date-Time
When documenting APIs, developers often link to ISO 8601 as the standard for computer-readable date and date-time format. Dates and times (and time zones!) are complicated. There are so many edge cases and pitfalls. I’m sure every developer has a battle story about them. It’s good to delegate that hard work to somebody else. So when an international body that everybody knows and trusts publishes such a standard, it’s no surprise all the API designers start referring to it.
