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3 questions to ask before adopting microservice architecture

TechCrunch

As a product manager, I’m a true believer that you can solve any problem with the right product and process, even one as gnarly as the multiheaded hydra that is microservice overhead. Which strategies, processes and tools do companies use to overcome these challenges? How do teams adopt microservices?

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5 Testing Strategies For Deploying Microservices

DevOps.com

With rigorous development and pre-production testing, your microservices will perform as they should. However, microservices need to be continuously tested against actual end-user activity to adapt the application to changing preferences and requests.

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Microservice Architecture of Alibaba

Abhishek Tiwari

Alibaba has constructed a sophisticated microservices architecture to address the challenges of serving its vast user base and handling complex business operations. This article draws from research by Luo et al., This article draws from research by Luo et al.,

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Testing Strategies for Microservices

Dzone - DevOps

A microservice application is a group of distributed programs that communicate over networks, occasionally interfacing with third-party services and databases. Microservices, by their networked nature, provide more points of failure than a traditional monolith. So, how do we test a microservice application?

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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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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

Much of what has been learned is catalogued by the MACH Alliance, a global consortium of nearly 100 technology vendors that promotes “open and best-in-breed enterprise technology ecosystems,” with an emphasis on microservices and APIs. Think about, for instance, an API strategy that assumes the consumer is going to be a web client.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

Here, we explore the key factors impeding IT modernization and provide recommendations to overcome them (with real-world illustrations of strategies). For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

Join us for an episode you can’t miss if you’re finding it a lot harder to architect in practice than in theory, and learn how you can shed light on the dark side of microservices. How these strategies can be applied in different size engineering organizations. Adopting new strategies incrementally.