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5 You’re Probably F**king Up Your Microservices

OverOps

It seems like everyone is into microservices these days, and monolith architectures are slowly fading into obscurity. With Microservices, though, there seems to be more consensus that the trend is here to stay. With Microservices, though, there seems to be more consensus that the trend is here to stay. It makes sense.

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Temporal raises $18.75M for its microservices orchestration platform

TechCrunch

Temporal , a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised an $18.75 “Before microservices, coding applications was much simpler,” Temporal’s Fateev told me. million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

The microservices trend is becoming impossible to ignore,” I wrote in 2016. Back then, many would have argued this was just another unbearable buzzword, but today many organizations are reaping the very real benefits of breaking down old monolithic applications, as well as seeing the very real challenges microservices can introduce.

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Top Disadvantages to Adopting Microservices (And Why You Should Do It Anyway)

OverOps

Microservices is a thought model that promises to bring us closer to that goal. By breaking up an application into specialized containers designed to perform a specific task or process, microservices enable each component to operate independently. What Makes Microservices Hard? What Makes Microservices Hard?

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A Microservices Strategy Underpins Every Successful Cloud Native Migration

In a cloud native world, applications are created from loosely coupled microservices instead of being a monolithic entity. Microservices are small, autonomous components, organized around business domains, that are easily monitored, tested, and updated, bringing greater business and operational agility.

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Helios wants to tame the microservices development chaos

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, even a small bug in one microservice or API can quickly take down a large distributed app. The idea behind Helios is to help developers understand exactly how their code interacts with the rest of the applications. Image Credits: Helios.

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Microservices orchestration platform Temporal raises $75M and remains a unicorn

TechCrunch

Temporal , an open source microservices orchestration platform used by companies, including Netflix, Snap and Comcast, has raised $75 million from a slew of high-profile investors including Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks. The startup has also maintained its coveted unicorn status with a valuation of “just over” $1.5

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

In his best-selling book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler famously coined the first law of distributed computing—"Don’t distribute your objects"—implying that working with this style of architecture can be challenging. Establishing the boundaries of your teams and services.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Containers power many of the applications we use every day. Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. However, this increased velocity often comes at the cost of overall application performance or reliability.