Tag Archives: microservices

Microservices architecture pattern

Posted on December 15, 2015 by ceracm

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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Does each microservice really need its own database?

Posted on September 2, 2015 by ceracm

The short answer is yes. However, … Continue reading →

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Monstrous monoliths – how bad can it get?

Posted on May 13, 2015 by ceracm

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 →

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Need help with microservices?

Posted on April 7, 2015 by ceracm

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 →

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Need to install MongoDB, RabbitMQ, or MySQL? Use Docker to simplify dev and test

Posted on January 14, 2015 by ceracm

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 →

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Example application for my #qconsf presentation about building microservices with event sourcing and CQRS

Posted on January 4, 2015 by ceracm

My presentation Building microservices with event sourcing and CQRS describes the challenges of functionally decomposing a domain model in a microservices based application. It shows that  a great way to solve those problems is with an event-driven architecture that is based on event … Continue reading →

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Microservices are to services, as organic food is to food

Posted on December 9, 2014 by ceracm

On Thanksgiving morning, I listened to a fascinating interview with Jacques Pepin, the celebrated French chef and PBS personality. Part of the interview touched on the topic of organic food. He joked that his parents were organic farmers even though at the … Continue reading →

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Deploying Spring Boot-based microservices with Docker – part 3

Posted on November 16, 2014 by ceracm

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we looked at the benefits of the microservice architecture and showed how Spring Boot simplifies the development of microservices. We also built a couple of simple Spring Boot-based services for user … Continue reading →

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Building microservices with Spring Boot – part 1

Posted on April 1, 2014 by ceracm

This article introduces the concept of a microservice architecture and the motivations for using this architectural approach. It then shows how Spring Boot, a relatively new project in the Spring ecosystem can be used to significantly simplify the development and … Continue reading →

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