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Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently

Erik Bernhardsson

Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. So basically since 2006 I’ve been continuously working in what people now call a “microservice architecture”. 98% of microservice benefit is being able to test and deploy independently.

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Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently

Erik Bernhardsson

Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. So basically since 2006 I’ve been continuously working in what people now call a “microservice architecture”. 98% of microservice benefit is being able to test and deploy independently.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

Out of the Tar Pit, 2006. How do I upgrade or evolve microservices? The ability to maintain real-time data across a series of stateful, stream processing microservices is very powerful, but how do we make that state accessible? Audit logs: Each microservice will capture a security context (e.g., What is the latency?

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

Having emerged in the late 1990s, SOA is a precursor to microservices but remains a skill that can help ensure software systems remain flexible, scalable, and reusable across the organization. This makes it easier to maintain, update, and monitor services without breaking other parts of the system and introducing any unnecessary downtime.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. Microservices saw a 20% drop. Many developers expressed frustration with microservices during the year and argued for a return to monoliths.

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An Interview

LeanEssays

When Amazon moved to microservices (from 2001 to 2006) the company had to abandon the idea that transactions are managed by a central database – which was an extremely novel idea at the time. For example, the dependencies generated by the big back end of a banking system is a huge source of friction for product teams.

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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

Before OutSystems In 2006, I finally began my professional career as a Java developer at a Property & Casualty insurance company. After the migration, we focused on service-oriented architecture (SOA), a pivotal predecessor to microservices.