Scaling Development

Abstract

So far we have spent a lot of time with the how and why of designing and building microservices. However, there is this age old principle that many industry professionals have coined throughout the years, which says that “code is read more than written.” This is true for infrastructure and systems as well. If you want to make sure that your systems scale so people understand them at a glance and can move on quickly to the “writing” part of software engineering, you need to spend some time working on tooling and culture in your organization. In this chapter, we will explore some of these areas.