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#include <event2/buffer.h>
#include <event2/event.h>
#include <event2/http.h>
#include <event2/keyvalq_struct.h>

const char *get_query_arg(struct evhttp_request *req, const char *name) {
	// Parse uri
	const struct evhttp_uri *uri = evhttp_request_get_evhttp_uri(req);
	const char *query = evhttp_uri_get_query(uri);

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package main

import "github.com/philippta/flyscrape/flyscrape"

var config = flyscrape.Config{
	URL:      "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
	Browser:  true,
	Headless: false,
}

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This Microservice Should Have Been a Library

About 6 years ago when I was a PHP ecommerce dev, I've always wanted to work with distributed systems and microservices. They seemed so cool and the new way of architecting software systems because all of big tech did it. But now working with them day to day for about 3 years I came to realize that my initial anticipation was stupid. Well, not stupid in the traditional sense, because how could I have known what I'd get myself into.

Microservices and distributed systems have been preached to solve two major problems: Scale and scale.

So let's talk about them.