Comment by moksly | Hacker News Reader

Comment by moksly | Hacker News Reader

Aren’t the first 3 or 4 chapters basically what you can find in Google’s own cloud toturials?

Why does the domain-driven-design chapter come after you’ve tied the reader into GCP? I can’t think of a single enterprise business domain where that would make sense from a European GDPR driven perspective.

Why do you think you can cover that many topics in a single book? I mean, part of the reason Clean Code is well liked is because it covers one topic in depth, rather than covering a bunch of different topics without ever giving the reader anything of value on any of them.

Have you considered going the TDD GOAT book route of earning sales?

I’m really sorry that I’m so negative, but your “contents” read like every terrible tech-book I’ve ever opened. Good luck though.

Hey, these are good questions.

> Aren’t the first 3 or 4 chapters basically what you can find in Google’s own cloud toturials? > Why does the domain-driven-design chapter come after you’ve tied the reader into GCP? I can’t think of a single enterprise business domain where that would make sense from a European GDPR driven perspective.

Our idea was to create a seemingly modern app based on microservices, with full GCP setup and fancy tools used. We then go on to point the issues in the code. We wanted to show how an app that seems well built on surface can have hidden problems that are hard to spot. We don't deep dive into GCP, mostly just describe the setup.

> Why do you think you can cover that many topics in a single book? I mean, part of the reason Clean Code is well liked is because it covers one topic in depth, rather than covering a bunch of different topics without ever giving the reader anything of value on any of them.

I believe you'll find a lot of value on these topics, even if we don't go super-deep into each of them. It should give readers enough ideas on how to approach building complex apps. We base this on our experience, so it's not just bland descriptions of the patterns. Also it's all focused on Go and on a real example project, so it's not abstract.

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