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Ben Nadel replaces jQuery - 110kb - with Umbrella JS - 8kb - a tiny, jQuery alternative with a similar API and prototype-based plugin system.

At InVision, David Bainbridge and I have been working hard to figure out why some users are getting randomly logged-out of one of our client-side applications. Part of what makes this issue so challenging to debug is that there are many services that touch requests coming out of this application. And, even though we are using request tracing headers in our distributed system, we are struggling to connect the dots as those requests pass-through Amazon's load balancers. Yesterday, however, David discovered that Amazon's load balancers will record (and modify) the HTTP header, X-Amzn-Trace-Id...

Why I've Been Merging Microservices Back Into The Monolith At InVision By Ben Nadel on If you follow me on Twitter, you may notice that every now (1)and (2)then (3) I post a celebratory tweet about merging one of our microservices back into the monolith at InVision. My tweets are usually accompanied by a Thanos GIF in which Thanos is returning the last Infinity Stone to the Infinity Gauntlet. I find this GIF quite fitting as the reuniting of the stones gives Thanos immense power; much in the same way that reuniting the microservices give me and my team power. I've been asked seve...