Lightning Talk: Independent Services, Throw Your Hands Up At Me
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Like most things pushed by Netflix, microservices are all anyone is talking about. And it's not just hype, there are real benefits at play: better scalability, technology independence, faster development, easier deployment, and increased resiliency to name a few.
But just because you cut your big scary monolith into itty bitty bite-sized chunks doesn't mean you're actually cashing in on all that microservices have to offer. In particular, this talk focuses on one fundamental question: Are your microservices independent? Microservices should be modelled as isolated units, but in reality, robust systems rely on cooperation between those different units. This seems like a Catch-22, but there is hope!
Heather will explore ways to minimise the dreaded deployment dependencies and cascading failures through a loosely-coupled client server relationship, well-defined interfaces, and automated contract testing in your build pipelines. She will also share how Landbay has cleaned up their own generated code dependencies, bolstering the resiliency and independence of their system without losing the speed and ease of normalised interfaces. Plus, it’s CI/CD friendly! To paraphrase the immortal words of Destiny’s Child, “If you're gonna call make sure it's your API you flaunt / depend on no one else to give you what you want.”
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Thanks to our sponsors
Lightning Talk: Independent Services, Throw Your Hands Up At Me
Heather Whyte
Heather is a software engineer who spends her days working on Java, microservices, and all the backend tools that help put them together. After years studying finance and working in operations around the world, she is currently focused on growing and improving the distributed microservice system at Landbay, a peer-to-peer FinTech start-up here in London.
Please log in to watch this conference skillscast.
Like most things pushed by Netflix, microservices are all anyone is talking about. And it's not just hype, there are real benefits at play: better scalability, technology independence, faster development, easier deployment, and increased resiliency to name a few.
But just because you cut your big scary monolith into itty bitty bite-sized chunks doesn't mean you're actually cashing in on all that microservices have to offer. In particular, this talk focuses on one fundamental question: Are your microservices independent? Microservices should be modelled as isolated units, but in reality, robust systems rely on cooperation between those different units. This seems like a Catch-22, but there is hope!
Heather will explore ways to minimise the dreaded deployment dependencies and cascading failures through a loosely-coupled client server relationship, well-defined interfaces, and automated contract testing in your build pipelines. She will also share how Landbay has cleaned up their own generated code dependencies, bolstering the resiliency and independence of their system without losing the speed and ease of normalised interfaces. Plus, it’s CI/CD friendly! To paraphrase the immortal words of Destiny’s Child, “If you're gonna call make sure it's your API you flaunt / depend on no one else to give you what you want.”
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- Fast Track to DevOps Fundamentals (in London on 16th - 17th December 2019)
- µCon London 2020 - The Conference on Microservices, DDD & Software Architecture (in London on 27th - 29th May 2020)
- Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes (in London on 5th September 2019)
- Fast Track to Android Architecture (in London on 21st - 23rd October 2019)
- Masterclass: Reducing Technical Debt with Michael C. Feathers (in London on 28th - 29th October 2019)
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Thanks to our sponsors
Lightning Talk: Independent Services, Throw Your Hands Up At Me
Heather Whyte
Heather is a software engineer who spends her days working on Java, microservices, and all the backend tools that help put them together. After years studying finance and working in operations around the world, she is currently focused on growing and improving the distributed microservice system at Landbay, a peer-to-peer FinTech start-up here in London.