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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

Netflix Tech

Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice by Frank San Miguel on behalf of the Cosmos team Introduction Cosmos is a computing platform that combines the best aspects of microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless functions. Our response was to create Cosmos, a platform for workflow-driven, media-centric microservices.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The scope of a team often concerns a limited number of components, microservice or other functionalities. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. As we move up to domain-oriented units, business lines and enterprises, we see an increase in the complexity.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The scope of a team often concerns a limited number of components, microservice or other functionalities. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. As we move up to domain-oriented units, business lines and enterprises, we see an increase in the complexity.

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Is the Paved Road right for you?

Xebia

Let us say you have several teams developing microservices that run on Kubernetes. Each microservice needs to have the same basic structure (service discovery, logging, etc.), That said, building a Paved Road can be a sizeable investment, and should be done in consultation with the teams intending to use it.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

I’m wondering how well the error enum translates to microservices. If you feel your retrospective shines a light on difficulties other engineers might have, share it more widely in your organization. Learning “in the open” creates a kind of safety in an engineering culture. cf “Railway Oriented Programming”, [link].

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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization

Datavail

For example, refreshing your.NET applications makes it much easier to adopt modern IT best practices such as cloud computing and microservices. Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Small, independent teams own a small service – called a microservice these days. Do not think of a microservice architecture as a flat layer of tiny services. They create an engaging engineering culture. If you look closely at successful digital companies, they look rather ‘lean’. They obsess over customers. This is lean.