Microservices

Part 5 of my “Responsible Microservices” series is live! Should that be a Microservice? Part 5: Failure Isolation In the first part of this series, we laid out a set of principles to help you understand when microservices can be a useful architectural choice. We promised follow-up pieces describing each of the factors in more detail. In the fifth post of the series, we explore failure isolation. Digital products don’t live alone.

Part 4 of my “Responsible Microservices” series went live yesterday! Should that be a Microservice? Part 4: Independent Scalability In the first part of this series, we laid out a set of principles to help you understand when microservices can be a useful architectural choice. We promised follow-up pieces describing each of the factors in more detail. In the fourth post of the series, we explore independent scalability. Let’s take a quick spin in our hot tub time machine and head back to an era before cloud, microservices and serverless computing.

Part 3 of my “Responsible Microservices” series went live earlier this month! Should that be a Microservice? Part 3: Independent Life Cycles In the first part of this series, we laid out a set of principles to help you understand when microservices can be a useful architectural choice. We promised follow-up pieces describing each of the factors in more detail. In the third post of the series, we explore independent life cycles.

Part 2 of my “Responsible Microservices” series went live last week! Should that be a Microservice? Part 2: Multiple Rates of Change In the first part of this series, we laid out a set of principles to help you understand when microservices can be a useful architectural choice. We promised follow-up pieces describing each of the factors in more detail. Here’s the first of such posts; let’s explore multiple rates of change.

I wrote a post summarizing some advice that Matt Stine and I used with a client… Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind You’re writing more code than ever before. The trick is knowing what should be a microservice, and what shouldn’t. These days, you can’t swing a dry erase marker without hitting someone talking about microservices. Developers are studying Eric Evan’s prescient book Domain Driven Design.