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Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) from Netflix
Adrian Cockcroft does a retrospective on microservices, what they set out to do at Netflix, how it worked out, and how things have subsequently permeated across the industry.
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Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!
Chris Richardson describes how dark energy and dark matter are excellent metaphors for the competing forces (a.k.a. concerns) that must be resolved by the microservices pattern language.
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Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh
Jim Barton discusses the challenges of service mesh today, along with the latest developments in what the service mesh community is doing to improve its implementations.
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Orchestration vs Choreography, a Guide to Composing Your Monolith
Ian Thomas looks at coupling, how it affects distributed systems and organization design and the techniques and technology that can help make a microservices architecture effective.
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Istio as a Platform for Running Microservices
Eitan Suez explores Istio's design and how it just might be a foundation for running microservices.
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Securing Microservices: Preventing Vulnerability Traversal
Stefania Chaplin is looking at OWASP recommendations and Kubernetes best practices to find out more about how to secure microservices and reduce vulnerability traversal.
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No Next Next: Fighting Entropy in Your Microservices Architecture
Anna Shipman discusses her experience joining the FT to lead on FT.com a few years after launch and shares things implemented to stop the drift towards an unmaintainable system and another rebuild.
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How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor
Rob Donovan and Ioana Creanga discuss what happens behind the scenes when one pays with a card, and how Starling built their own card processor, integrating traditional hardware with microservices.
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Microservices to Async Processing Migration at Scale
Sharma Podila shares from their experience migrating to asynchronous processing at scale, requiring attention to managing data loss, a highly available infrastructure, and elasticity to handle bursts.
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Present and Future of the Microservice Architecture
The panelists reflect on various microservices topics.
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Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture
Glenn Engstrand describes how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices.
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Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices
Holly Cummins discusses a number of anti-patterns in building microservices: The murky goal, Microservices envy, Cloud native spaghetti, The enterprise hairball, The someday automation, and others.