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Introduction Some years ago i was involved in migrating a big IBM Websphere monolith into a microservice landscape. We had a lot of problems with the monolith. Our development speed slowed down. We had many merge conflicts because of too many dependencies in the codebase. We outgrew the monolithic design and decided to introduce microservices. We extracted different domains like payment, booking, user and search. The teams were restructured into two-pizza teams.

Technology trends play an important role in the hiring process for software developers. Recently, various sources point out misunderstandings and bad practices in this area. The anecdotal term Résumé-Driven development (RDD) describes a phenomenon of overemphasizing technology trends in the application process.

We can all benefit by doing occasional "toy" programs, when artificial restrictions are set up, so that we are forced to push our abilities to the limit. —Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming