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Microservices + Events + Docker = Perfect Trio

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At the recent DockerCon 2016 conference, our founder and Docker Captain Chris Richardson, gave a talk on Microservices, event sourcing and Docker. His talk was one of the top 10 talks at the conference! Slides Here…

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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

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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

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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

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Microservices – more than just infrastructure

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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…

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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

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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

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NodeJS, Futures, and Rx Observables at DevNexus 2014

Last week I gave a couple of talks related to micro-services architecture at DevNexus 2014. The first talk was NodeJS: the good parts? A skeptic’s view (slides), which describes the pros and cons of JavaScript and NodeJS and how NodeJS is … Continue reading

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NodeJS: the good parts? A skeptic’s view at #javaconf

I recently gave a talk about NodeJS at the JAX conference in Santa Clara. Here are the abstract and slides. JavaScript used to be confined to the browser. But these days, it’s becoming increasingly popular in server-side applications in the … Continue reading

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Cloudy, hot air likely: thoughts about #deploycon and other cloud events

I spent tuesday at DeployCon, a conference about enterprise platform services. Some of the sessions were great. Most notably,  Dave McCrory’s Data Gravity talk, Das Kamhout’s talk about Intel’s PaaS journey, and David Mortman Cover your PaaS talk about PaaS security. Here are … Continue reading

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