Want to learn about microservices?
-
Recent Posts
Archives
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- September 2016
- August 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- September 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- September 2014
- July 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- November 2013
- June 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- May 2012
- January 2012
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
Categories
Meta
Author Archives: ceracm
Thoughts on “if you can’t build a well-structured monolith, what makes you think microservices is the answer?”
A couple of weeks ago at the DevNexus conference Simon Brown gave a keynote (slides) titled the “Modular Monolith”. It was an interesting presentation and he made a number of good points. His final slide asked this excellent question: If you can’t … Continue reading
Posted in microservices, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, big ball of mud, microservices, modularity
1 Comment
Microxchg 2016: A pattern language for microservices
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at the MicroXchg conference in Berlin. It is a small, two track conference that is just about microservices. Lots of great topics. In particular, it was nice to see that the discussion has moved beyond … Continue reading
Posted in microservices, Uncategorized
Tagged berlin, conference, microservices, microxchg, microxchg2016
1 Comment
Microservice chassis pattern
Build your microservices using a microservice chassis, which is a framework that handles cross-cutting concerns When you build a microservice you must put in place the mechanisms to handle cross-cutting concerns such as logging, externalized configuration, health checks, metrics, service discovery, … Continue reading
Microservices – more than just infrastructure
Originally posted on Eventuate.IO:
Matt Miller of Sequoia recently published a map of the microservices ecosystem. We have updated our @sequoia #microservices ecosystem map. Thank you for the feedback, please keep it coming! pic.twitter.com/U1kd7X58IE — Matt Miller (@mcmiller00) January…
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
API Gateway pattern
Have a service that acts as the sole entry point into a microservices-based application Consider a mobile shopping application. The product information that it needs to show to the user includes the description, price, reviews, recommendations and shipping information. The ownership of that data … Continue reading
Microservices architecture pattern
Functionally decompose an enterprise server-side application into collection of services that can be developed, deployed and scaled independently A successful application typically grows in complexity as developers implement more and more features. At some point the application becomes so complex … Continue reading
Does each microservice really need its own database?
The short answer is yes. However, … Continue reading
Monstrous monoliths – how bad can it get?
I recently posted a survey on twitter asking folks to describe their monolithic application: How big is your monolithic application? LOC? Jar files? Size? Startup time? I’m listening to confessions: http://t.co/bMQH6R4hFR — Chris Richardson (@crichardson) April 15, 2015 So far … Continue reading
Need help with microservices?
These days I’m focussed on microservices. Microservices patterns My book Microservices patterns has been published. Consulting and training I provide consulting services and training classes that help you get started with microservices. Contact me if you want to learn more … Continue reading
Need to install MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or MySQL? Use Docker to simplify dev and test
Almost every interesting application uses at least one infrastructure service such as a database or a message broker. For example, if you tried to build and/or run the Spring Boot-based user registration service you would have discovered that it needs both MongoDB and RabbitMQ. … Continue reading
Posted in docker, microservices, mongodb, rabbitmq
Tagged docker, microservices, mongodb
Leave a comment
plain old objects 