In looking back over the PRs I submitted this week for my main client, who has a microservice architecture, I see that I was fixing a lot of small, annoying bugs.

These bugs were introduced as part of a rewrite I’m working on to improve the performance of a few API endpoints in one of the microservices. These endpoints depend on getting a lot of data from another microservice and we made some other changes recently that had the unexpected side effect of slowing these endpoints down quite a bit. I wound up making some pretty significant changes to how these endpoints get their data that involved also making some changes to the endpoints in the microservice it was calling, so it’s not surprising that there were some bugs to work out.

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