We're trying something new. Well, trying two new things. We're starting to blog about Wattpad's journey into the world of microservices. And we're blogging on our own platform. We're proud of the really hard problems we have to solve every day and we'd love to show the solutions to the world. We also know that being candid and talking about our experiences (good and bad) in the public will benefit other engineering teams as well as ours. None of us is a blogger so it's difficult. But we're accustomed to overcoming difficult problems. The theme here will be our unique personal experiences along the way, ones you haven't heard elsewhere. Don't expect posts that debate monoliths vs. microservices or how to use Docker to do continuous deployment. Those are dead horses. We're frightened of dead horses so we don't want to go near them, let alone beat them. We'll be talking about our failures just as much as our successes. We're forging new paths in scaling a platform that allows millions of people to read and write. That means we have unique problems and we can't wait to talk about them. Our load balancers receive over 2 billion requests per day. Our traffic is constantly growing. We have a large monolithic PHP codebase. We decided about a year ago to start chipping away at that monolith to turn it into microservices. We have two microservices under our belts now so we'll recount what it took to create them and what the hard parts were and going forward we'll post current projects, as we're working on them. We just started working on perhaps our most important microservice, the Text Service. This service will be responsible for all storage and retrieval of text. Pretty key for a reading and writing platform. Oh yeah, we're not just creating microservices, we're writing them in Go and loving it so expect to hear all about that too.

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Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.

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Lugares y personajes extraños

When Matt is making his own adventure game, things get sidetracked after a call from his estranged brother forces him to leave his house- leaving his computer on at home without him! Credit to @Ebil-NekoCat and it's also me!

A collection of photos I've taken in Toronto.

I'll be upfront about it. This is a love story. Nothing more, nothing less. It's probably not even as exciting as 95% of the stories out there. But it's mine. And it's real. It exists in the looks, the words, the experiences we've shared and we'll keep sharing. And it began 7 summers ago.

This story will list all of the most cliché things that authors on Wattpad write about. Please DO NOT TAKE ANY OF MY IDEAS, or take offense if you have written a book with anything on this list. The more cliché the Wattpad story, the better. ⚠️WARNING IF YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERIENCED WATTPAD READER SOME OF THE CONTENTS IN THIS BOOK MAY NOT MAKE SENSE⚠️

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