Building resilient systems with Sam Newman

The Pragmatic Engineer · Oct 7, 2026 · 1h 58m · transcript

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Sam Newman wrote one of the most-read books about microservices (“Building Microservices”), but he calls them an architecture of “last resort.”

In this episode of the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, Sam explains…