A little feedback -- I like the idea, but I think it is too brief, and therefore comes across a bit superficial ... it seems to imply that everything was magically happy ever after other than a few bumps in the road.
The struggle with the story-based approach, I guess, is to find the sweet spot where you're detailed enough that the story has some meat to it, but not too overly detailed such that it takes 2 hours and deep concentration to read.
(I don't know how to find that sweet spot, so I'm not throwing stones. Just wanted to pass on some feedback in case it helps).
Re-reading it this morning, I would tend to agree, it's slightly terse and could have done with some more backstory. I'll take this feedback onboard for my next article!
I am new to this style so I am still playing around and seeing what sticks. I do really appreciate your comment!
Nitpicking: from an architectural point of view, I don't see why you would opt for "build you own cloud on top of Amazon", as opposed to leveraging the Amazon stack, especially because the author points out it is a small team.
Maybe it's a resource issue, or they need some things that cost too much money on Amazon, but the author should at least justify why kubernetes was chosen.
My apologies for ranting about this, but I've seen this approach way to much, wasting valuable company dollars.
I don't believe it would be a case of building your own cloud on top of Amazon, it would be a case of saying something like:
I want 2 instances of my account service, 2 instances of my comic-book viewer service behind a load balancers. You are specifying how you want your application to look as opposed to a fully fledged cloud offering.
It shows that microservices come with a lot of complexity. Only do it when your team is growing bigger and there are problems in building your app with a big team. split up the teams, and split up the services. Let teams deploy the services.
The struggle with the story-based approach, I guess, is to find the sweet spot where you're detailed enough that the story has some meat to it, but not too overly detailed such that it takes 2 hours and deep concentration to read.
(I don't know how to find that sweet spot, so I'm not throwing stones. Just wanted to pass on some feedback in case it helps).