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Partial Failures in a Microservices Jungle: Survival Tips from Comcast
Jon Moore goes over some strategies for surviving in a jungle of partial failures. Each survival tip is explained through a concrete example, or "adventure story", from Comcast’s TV experience.
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Circuit Breaking in Distributed Systems
Matt Heath discusses how circuit breakers and other similar patterns can be used to increase reliability in distributed systems such as Go-based microservice platforms.
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Pacts to the Rescue
Beth Skurrie introduces Pact, a consumer driven contracts testing library useful for creating and executing integration tests on microservices.
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Netflix’s Viewing Data Microservices: How we Know Where you are in House of Cards
Matt Zimmer discusses architectural patterns -service decomposition, stateless application tiers, and polyglot persistence- and migration strategies used by Netflix.
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Developing Functional Domain Models with Event Sourcing
Chris Richardson describes how to implement business logic using a domain model that is based on event sourcing. He compares and contrasts a hybrid OO/FP design with a purely functional approach.
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How 30 Years of Ticket Transaction Data Helps you Discover New Shows!
Vaclav Petricek discusses how to train models, architect and build a scalable system powered by Storm, Hadoop, Spark, Spring Boot and Vowpal Wabbit that meets SLAs measured in tens of milliseconds.
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Delivering the Composable Enterprise
Saul Caganoff looks at what service-oriented enterprises can learn from APIs and microservices to overcome both technical and cultural challenges.
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Operating Microservices
Michael Brunton-Spall shows how DevOps-like patterns can be applied on microservices to give the development teams more responsibility for their choices, and much more.
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No Free Lunch, Indeed: Three Years of Microservices at SoundCloud
Phil Calcado shares the toolkit and strategy SoundCloud uses to keep its microservices explosion manageable, dealing with operations overhead, DevOps, breaking changes and asynchronous behaviors.
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Protocols of Interaction: Best Current Practices
Todd Montgomery describes some common problems that have arisen in protocol design, using examples such as HTTP/2, Aeron, etc., and how the solutions can be applied to microservices.
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Engineering for Scale at VMTurbo
Sylvia Isler presents a microservices case study and lessons learnt - how VMTurbo took the plunge to evolve its monolithic system architecture into a system based on composable microservices.
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Microservices: Software that Fits in Your Head
Dan North describes a model for thinking about the age of code and argues for replaceability as a first class concern, ending up with something that looks a lot like microservices.