In designing and organizing a two-day workshop on microservices, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is a small subset of that material, but I wanted to share it to get feedback (in the workshop we go into more detail […]
Welcome to Microservices Journal
Welcome to Microservices Journal, a community dedicated to the design of microservices-based applications and related technologies. The introduction of microservices into the digital application landscape enables a new level of agility for businesses that adopt this model of design. As with any architectural construct, there are no absolutes; hence, no wrong or right way to […]
Microservices Days coming to a city near you
Microservices is rapidly becoming a design paradigm for developing software. While there are many benefits to microservices designs, it is more complex than traditional application design. For this reason we are formulating a new community around microservices architecture. This community will explore design issues and the intersection with Mobile/IoT, Containers, Cloud, DevOps and APIs. Microservices […]
SOA vs Microservices
Some say microservices architecture is proof that SOA is still alive. I contend that microservices architecture replaces SOA due to deficiencies in how SOA has been implemented as well as the original intent. In the mid-1990s there was a surge of investment for implementing enterprise applications to replace the aging homegrown legacy applications. These new […]
Microservice Usage at Honeycomb
I recently joined Honeycomb, an observability startup where we are working to help generalist software engineers solve problems with their apps in an increasingly distributed world. The architecture we use to deliver our product can be described as using microservices, but interestingly, to use microservices specifically was not a deliberate design choice. It was instead […]
Sharding for Scale: Architecture Matters
In the days of monolithic applications, scale was simple. As every instance of the app was the same, it really didn’t matter which one processed a request, as long as it was processed. On the back end, a single, ginormous data store held everything. This model ran into serious issues as apps migrated to the […]
How to build 12-factor microservices applications on AWS with Containers
If you are developing software in 2017, chances are you are looking at microservices-based architectures. Microservices is an approach to application development in which a large application is built as a suite of modular services. Containers are a natural fit because of the isolation and packaging they provide. Containers further enable speed, resource density, flexibility […]
Continuous Deployment and Monitoring of Microservices
Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a fair number of practitioners that are struggling with the merging of these concepts to create a holistic environment that allows for deep understanding […]
DevOps: Time for Developers to Dig In
Speaking to developers and project managers at the Gartner Catalyst Show, Jenkins World and Atlassian Summit revealed some insights about how most IT specialist perceive DevOps. Yes, I had a busy end of summer schedule attending events and talking to a wide range of developers and project managers about DevOps. What I learned is that […]
One Team’s Microservices Journey and CD Growth
Dev Manager Vadim Madison published a chronicle of his team’s move from a monolithic application to a microservices model. In the process, the tools and methodologies they used for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) had to be expanded and even changed out in several stages. It’s a long read, but with the time, as there are […]