Microservices

Is “Serverless” architecture just a finely-grained rebranding of PaaS?

2 June 2016

Serverless computing makes bold promises of development without having to worry about environments, scaling or deployment. Haven’t we been here before?

Managing services that don't have clear code ownership

5 May 2016

How do you organise code ownership for services that do not align conveniently with team or organisational boundaries?

Can cross-cutting concerns really exist between services?

25 July 2015

You might be able to identify cross-cutting concerns in a monolith, but in a service-orientated world they should melt away into specific implementations.

Refactoring monoliths to microservices: the pragmatic reality

5 May 2015

Large scale rewrites of systems are loaded with risk. You can address this by preparing the ground in advance and adopting an incremental approach, but a willingness to be pragmatic is essential.

Microservices, REST and the distributed big ball of mud

20 April 2015

The “big ball of mud” describes a system architecture that is sprawling, sloppy and haphazard. That’s precisely how you’d describe some emerging microservice architectures.

How big is a microservice?

9 March 2015

We know that micro services are small and focused by design – just how small is this in practice?

Why REST is not a silver bullet for service integration

4 January 2015

REST is sometimes described as the next evolutionary step in service integration. The problem is that REST provides too much of a dumb pipe to support genuinely decoupled, fault-tolerant service integration.

Are microservices just “SOA done properly”?

12 June 2014

There’s nothing really new about many of the ideas that underpin microservices. Are they just an agile re-branding of SOA?