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Yes, it is an app. Not a 'microservice'. That's the point.

It was not disingenuous. You complain too much while avoiding the point.

A very long comment that ignores the one it purports to reply to...

Microservices are called that because they reside within an app that itself provides a service. Otherwise, of course you could call everything and anything 'microservice' but then the term would become meaningless.

Authentication is a service that is obviously used by other microservices, otherwise it would have no use.

But with microservices coupling is as loose as possible.

Your authentication microservice provides an interface (REST or whatever) independent on the underlying implementation and it does not matter how it implemented. As long has the interface 'contract' is fulfilled you can re-implement it from Java to Rails, or move it from here to there, if you wish and that is completely transparent to all other microservices.

Banks and actual currencies still have a bright future.

Don't confuse applications and protocols with microservices.

Microservices are services within an application.

It is intellectual terrorism. I am sorry but sometimes things must be called out even if the feelings of thin-skinned people are hurt.

It is only 'inevitable' because no-one has cared about it and, worse because some try to downplay the issue.

I did not accuse you personally, but you also did not say that it was inevitable, you spread the opinion that it was fine.

Those who claim that it is all good are pushing us to the abyss.

Edit: Downvoting the inconvenient truth won't make it go away.

Considering the current environmental issues this is not absurd at all.

Increased urbanisation is at best marginal in Western countries. This is not what is driving prices.

But top places like London now attract from a global pool of billions.

People need to realise that a world with 10 billion does not look like a world with 2 billion.

Lastly, the planet has trouble with us now... It's terrorism to suggest that 10 billion is just fine.

That's very optimistic.

"The median estimate for future growth sees the world population reaching 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100" (2017)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

It was 74% in 1970 (50 years ago). It is not a massive change.

The massive change in urbanisation is happening in developing countries. In developed countries it happened earlier and is not really a thing anymore.

In developed countries things haven't changed that much.

If you look at London (since that's essentially the article), population has actually only reached back to its 1950 level.

But attractive cities can now pull people and investment from a global pool of billions of people and thus the market does its thing and prices move accordingly.

Because we're on track to be 10 billion soon.

Even if four people's names are on a mortgage, if one or more stop paying, the mortgage lender has the right to demand full repayments from whoever they can reach, he explains.

This is called "joint and several liability" and is the legal position for many agreements when a party is made of several people (at least in the UK).

For example, people sharing a flat/house as renters will have the same liability unless they have separate tenancies. This is extremely common but surprisingly many people have no clue about it and think that they are fine paying "their share" of the rent.

Children in some countries still have no access to education, and here some people are in awe that children skip school for nothing.

This is a bad joke.

If they want to be taken seriously they should protest outside school hours, that'd show their grit and motivation, instead of wasting the good fortune they have to be in school in the first place.

I did not insult nor verbally attack anyone. I expressed my mood. I'm sure people here have a thick skin... or not.

This campaign, which is taking place in several countries, has to be one of the most idiotic I've seen recently.

Stay in school, study hard, make a difference.

You won't achieve anything by hurting yourself and your parents who pay for your education.

You probably don't even realise that comments like the one I replied to are somewhat insulting...

Well, a policeman on the beat or patrolling in a car is surveillance.

Based on that surveillance does work.

The question is rather at what level surveillance does not meaningfully reduce crime anymore but becomes a (political) control tool.

It's a start...

As is the case for all software, unit tests should be well designed.

If a unit test fails when the code under test hasn't functionally changed then it means that your unit tests are flaky.

I think that the issue is that microservices _require_ good practices and discipline.

These are attributes that 80% of projects and teams lack so when they decide to jump onto the microservices bandwagon the shit hits the fan pretty quickly.

Bopomofo has nothing to do with Taiwan, specifically.

It's a system introduced by the Republic of China, and tha continues to be used in the Republic of China (only Taiwan left these days).

That's because the mainland switched to Pinyin in the 50s.

That being said, Taiwan has now also officially switched to Pinyin so use may increase.

Edit:

Another interesting, and old, system to write Mandarin using the Arabic alphabet: Xiao'erjing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao%27erjing

Edit 2:

Bopomofo is in the same line as Hiragana/Katakana/Korean system: It simplifies and make things phonetic but still creates a brand new characters set inspired by Chinese characters.

With Pinyin, to me the main development was to integrate that there was already an ubiquitous alphabet in existence, the latin alphabet, that could be used and save the trouble of yet another writing system.

A bit like what happened in Vietnam (though obviously that's because a Frenchman came up with the system).

Are doing ignoring what I wrote on purpose?

The issue is personal rights vs. general good.

In the end an individual's liberty ends when his actions are having a serious negative impact on the community.

World population:

1980 - 4.4 billion

2019 - 7.7 billion

This has a massive impact on our environmental footprint and on climate change.

But, right, let's not intrude into a person's life, that would be abhorrent...

China is bad. Have I got the gospel right?

Now, the _facts_ are that the policy did have a real, significant impact. And that has benefited mankind as a whole.

But, OK, let's say it was useless... I cannot be said to have been disastrous, then, can it?

The one-child policy saved China and the world. China might have hit 2 billions by now without it.

The issue is that is has been too effective, especially for the level of development of the country, so that China is hitting a "first world problem" before having first world resources.

They don't necessarily ban you from trains outright but ban you from the comfortable trains (the article mentions high-speed trains).

A lot of these punishments seem targeted at the middle class and business people by forcing them to go down a peg or two if they don't abide by the rules. It's making them lose face, which is something very important in China.

Nothing circular in my argument. I feel you're wilfully ignoring what I wrote.

Considering the growth of the world's population they don't seem to be accomplishing much...