Hiding The Lead
40-60min Presentation
Information hiding, coupling, and cohesion, microservices-style
The terms coupling and cohesion come from the world of structured programming, but they are also thrown about in the context of microservices. In this session, I look at the applicability of these terms to microservice architecture, and also do a deep dive into the different types of coupling to explore how ideas from the 1970s still have a lot of relevance to the types of systems we build today.
Key topics
I cover a number of topics in the context of microservices, including:
- What is the importance of information hiding, and how do you apply it
- The interplay of coupling and cohesion
- Different types of coupling, what kinds of problems they can cause, and how you can avoid them
- How a surprising amount of good ideas came out of the 1960s and 1970s, but we just forgot them
Material
You can view the slides here, although please note that given the way I use presentations, it may be hard to get a sense of what the talk is about just by looking at the slides.