There are so many misconceptions about what microservices are or what problems they are trying to solve. Most people don't even experience the problems (yet or ever) they are meant to solve and they go straight to micro. 5 person teams making 5 services to power their product :faceplam:. A relatively simple b2b web application without any serious traffic also does not need microservices to handle its load.
People just read up on whatever seems to be the newest, coolest thing. The issue is that MS articles are usually coming from FAANG/ex-FANNG. These companies are solving problems that 99% of others do not.
As engineers we should be looking for the most effective solutions to a given business problem. Sadly, I see engineers with senior/staff titles just throwing cool tech terms/libs around. Boring tech club ftw
Oh man, I've been a fan of your app for so long! Have you ever considered an official iOS app? I think it's the only thing that keeps me from leaving Apple Notes.
LayerVault is a great tool if you want to keep your design files version controlled and nicely organized, which is the primary function. They have also introduced a handoff feature (http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/82302518939/introducing-as...) that is somewhat closer to Avocode.
But Avocode aims to be your tool of choice when it comes to designer->developer interaction and VICE VERSA. Many services often forget those developers who must code the same parts over and over again.
Parsing the PSD format is quite a challenge given its "half-open" nature. We've looked at many different libraries out there and basically took the best from each. Now we're also contributing to the open PSD.rb implementation.
We cannot speak for the Parfait team, but we think there are some key differentiators given that their tool is from Adobe. Read Q11 at http://avocode.com/faq.html