Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Iterating faster using an Agile framework

To begin with, for all intents and purposes, Links 'R' Us is a typical example of a green-field type of project. Since there are no pressing deadlines for delivering the project, we should definitely take our time to explore the pros and cons of any alternative technologies at our disposal for implementing the various components of the system.

For instance, when it comes to indexing and searching the documents that our system will be crawling, there are several competing products/services that we need to evaluate before deciding on which one to use. Furthermore, if we decide to containerize our project using a tool such as Docker, there are several orchestration frameworks (for example, Kubernetes ...