Comments by "" (@brownhorsesoftware3605) on "How Well Designed Are Your Microservices?" video.

Working on microservices sounds a lot like working on platform software. But I have an address-related story from when I started my second job at a bank services shop.. It was 1980, ATMs had just become legal in Chicago, and my first assignment was to generate an input tape for an outside firm to print address labels. I was given a format to generate with separate fields for number, street name, direction, town, etc. I had to write a parser to produce this from free form 2 line addresses. It was a nightmare. Everyone started panicking because the labels were unusable. So, while I wrote a little label generator for the free form input, the ops manager went out and got some labels. Less than hour later, voila - here are your labels. They had never bothered to ask if we could just print the labels ourselves.
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