The idea behind microservices and a microservices architecture is relatively simple: hide all the complexities of hardware, operating systems, and different development toolkits behind a standard ...

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Microservices promise to help break down monolithic applications and enable the consistent delivery of services. But they can't do the job without help. This is where event-driven architecture (EDA) ...

A debate going on in the microservices world misses the point of why we deploy microservices in the first place: small is safer. Microservices and containers are quickly becoming part of the ...

Microservices came in with a great deal of momentum a few years ago, but now we’re seeing their drawbacks for applications on cloud platforms. A microservices architecture for application development ...

Enterprises are turning to microservices and applying microservices patterns in order to properly develop their application architecture. The core idea is to break monolithic applications into smaller ...

While service oriented architectures have been popular for quite some time, microservices and SOA together can take the idea of modularity in enterprise applications to a completely new level. SOA is ...

Chris Richardson is not a microservices skeptic, though you wouldn’t know it from the title of his keynote presentation, “There Is No Such Thing as a Microservice!” On the contrary, Richardson, a ...

Designing our applications as small independent units is the first step towards building a modern infrastructure that is nimble, agile and scalable. Legacy systems still form the backbone of many ...