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On availability aspects of microservices

This post is in response to the WeekendDevPuzzle of 2022-01-29, which has submissions from people who chose to share their perspectives on the puzzle. I'll be linking this post to this Twitter thread, to avoid polluting the original one.

Motivation for today's topic

Unlike the usual peel the onion kind of topics, this one focuses more on how we think & our mental models of architectural decisions. But there's more.

Over the past 15 yrs, programming has become extremely accessible. While that's undoubtedly a good thing, it's become much easier to just rely on best practice, with or without context. Today's puzzle was designed to bring to the discussion table, that context, albeit in a super simplified fashion.

Dissecting the puzzle

Let's dissect the question, and bring out the core elements of it.

	# alias to edit commit messages without using rebase interactive
	# example: git reword commithash message
	reword = "!f() {\n GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR=\"sed -i 1s/^pick/reword/\" GIT_EDITOR=\"printf \\\"%s\\n\\\" \\\"$2\\\" >\" git rebase -i \"$1^\";\n git push -f;\n}; f"

	# sort list of git repos with gh cli
	gh repo list --limit 300 --json name -q '.[].name' \| sort

	# count total commits in a repo
	git rev-list --all --count

	// Your domain name
	const MY_DOMAIN = 'note.example.com'

	// Website language
	const LANG = 'en'

	// Favicon url
	const FAVICON_URL = 'https://example.com/favicon.ico'

	// Your config page link