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13 Nov 2024 » ISAQB 2024 - Enabling DevOps and Team Topologies Through Architecture: Architecting for Fast Flow
09 Nov 2024 » Loose design-time coupling: part of the wiring of a winning organization
04 Nov 2024 » Microservices rules #10: Make smaller, safer, and reversible changes - part 4
03 Nov 2024 » Reducing insider trading in a microservice architecture
27 Oct 2024 » The evolution of the Microservice Architecture pattern language
21 Oct 2024 » Microservices: the symphony
06 Oct 2024 » Microservices rules #10: Make smaller, safer, and reversible changes - part 3
11 Sep 2024 » Microservices rules #10: Make smaller, safer, and reversible changes - part 2
09 Sep 2024 » Architectural patterns for modular monoliths that enable fast flow
06 Sep 2024 » New premium post: Building a business case for reducing technical debt
01 Sep 2024 » Microservices rules #10: Make smaller, safer, and reversible changes - part 1
27 Aug 2024 » Architecting microservices for fast, sustainable flow
22 Aug 2024 » Evolving an architecture: a problem solving-driven approach
21 Aug 2024 » Architecting monoliths for fast, sustainable flow
10 Aug 2024 » Work smarter, not longer: Embrace fast flow
08 Aug 2024 » The pattern format: an antidote to hype
06 Aug 2024 » Eliminating tedium with OpenRewrite
04 Aug 2024 » New article - Microservices rules #5: Deliberative design
04 Aug 2024 » Upcoming public architecture workshops
21 Jul 2024 » GenAI application development - a Cynefin perspective
18 Jul 2024 » Public architecting for fast, sustainable flow workshops in September 2024
17 Jul 2024 » Premium post: making sure that buying is really better than building
10 Jul 2024 » Microservices rules: what good looks like - July 2024 edition
08 Jul 2024 » Upcoming architecture workshops and talks in Europe in November 2024
07 Jul 2024 » Keynote: Enabling DevOps and Team Topologies thru architecture: architecting for fast flow
27 Jun 2024 » STOP hurting yourself by doing big bang modernizations!
25 Jun 2024 » Did you refactor a monolith to microservice? How did it go?
24 Jun 2024 » I'm now a Team Topologies Advocate! 🎉
18 Jun 2024 » Premium post: There's more to a microservice architecture than services
13 Jun 2024 » PLoP: the gathering of the patterns community
03 Jun 2024 » A better way to think about developer productivity metrics
30 May 2024 » How do you structure your traditional (non-modular) monolith applications?
15 May 2024 » Implementing Faramir with Spring AI
13 May 2024 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 7 - no such thing as a modular monolith?
09 May 2024 » New premium post: Doing more with less, part 3 - Buy don't build using Wardley Mapping
06 May 2024 » Using GenAI (Github Copilot) to build a GenAI service
29 Apr 2024 » Dissecting 'architecting for fast, sustainable flow'
16 Apr 2024 » New premium post: Doing more with less, part 2 - Buy don't build using DDD
14 Apr 2024 » Architecture is multi-dimensional
10 Apr 2024 » The success triangle reinterpreted: it's all about fast flow
01 Apr 2024 » New premium post: Doing more with less, part 1: Improving the developer experience
01 Apr 2024 » Announcing Faramir: an LLM-powered microservice for validating phone numbers
29 Mar 2024 » Services + End-to-End Testing = ?
28 Mar 2024 » The evolution of the success triangle: microservices as the enabler of DevOps and team topologies
26 Mar 2024 » Adding the password grant type to Spring Authorization Server
23 Mar 2024 » ExploreDDD 2024 - Panel: The Crucial Intersection of DDD With LLMs
20 Mar 2024 » A tour of two sagas
18 Mar 2024 » ExploreDDD 2024 - DDD, necessary but insufficient: physical design principles for microservices
27 Feb 2024 » New premium post: Microservices rules #2: Fast deployment pipeline
12 Feb 2024 » Deploying microservices: the path from laptop to production
23 Jan 2024 » Microservices rules: what good looks like
16 Jan 2024 » Clarifying architecture with Service Blueprints: system operations + entities
08 Jan 2024 » New premium post: Prevent descent into unmaintainable hell by tracking and improving the DevEx metrics
21 Dec 2023 » Thoughts about team size
07 Dec 2023 » Clarifying architecture with Service Blueprints: system operations
03 Dec 2023 » Microservices: what does good look like?
03 Dec 2023 » New premium post: Prevent descent into unmaintainable hell by tracking and improving the DORA metrics
13 Nov 2023 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 6 - transaction management for commands
07 Nov 2023 » Service blueprints: creating a shared understanding of your architecture
30 Oct 2023 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 5 - decoupling domains with the Observer pattern
17 Oct 2023 » Assemblage overview: step 3 - defining a service architecture
16 Oct 2023 » New premium article: a service exists to solve problems
09 Oct 2023 » LLMs: our future overlords are hungry and thirsty
21 Sep 2023 » New premium article: thoughts about service granularity
19 Sep 2023 » Assemblage overview: Part 3 - What's a service architecture?
12 Sep 2023 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 4 - physical design principles for faster builds
28 Aug 2023 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 3 - encapsulating a subdomain behind a facade
20 Aug 2023 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 2 - a first look at how subdomains collaborate
14 Aug 2023 » Assemblage overview: Part 2 - Defining subdomains
06 Aug 2023 » Ancient lore: Lehman's laws of software evolution
31 Jul 2023 » How modular can your monolith go? Part 1 - the basics
29 Jul 2023 » Four service collaboration patterns: implementing distributed operations
27 Jul 2023 » Assemblage overview: Part 1 - Defining system operations
25 Jul 2023 » Is organizational unpreparedness a dark matter force?
06 Jul 2023 » The microservice architecture is meant to simplify and accelerate development, but only when done correctly
21 Jun 2023 » The Strangler Fig application pattern: incremental modernization to microservices
22 May 2023 » Beer and tacos and the metaphorical origins of Docker containers
17 May 2023 » Evolving a microservice architecture: how to right-size your services
02 May 2023 » New premium article - Big decisions: should you migrate your monolith to microservices? Part 2.
26 Apr 2023 » DDD, necessary but insufficient: physical design principles for microservices
16 Apr 2023 » Local vs. cloud-based development
13 Apr 2023 » Big decisions: should you migrate to microservices? Part 1
13 Apr 2023 » Announcing Microservices.io Premium
10 Apr 2023 » Exploring transactional messaging in Oracle 23c Free - developer release
28 Mar 2023 » Essential characteristics of the microservice architecture: loosely coupled
26 Mar 2023 » About dark energy and dark matter: forces that shape an architecture
16 Mar 2023 » Monolith to Microservices with Bite-Sized Kubernetes
13 Mar 2023 » #becauseItDepends Finding your inner Vulcan: unemotional decision making with pattern-style thinking
01 Mar 2023 » The geometry of microservices - cubes, hexagons, triangles, and more
09 Feb 2023 » Introducing Assemblage - a microservice architecture definition process
07 Feb 2023 » Evolving a microservice architecture using dark energy and dark matter forces
03 Feb 2023 » Understanding an architecture: part 2 - user stories and scenarios
18 Jan 2023 » OMG are you still using Rational Rose?
16 Jan 2023 » Understanding an architecture: part 1 - system context
11 Jan 2023 » CxOs neglect architecture at their peril
09 Jan 2023 » Scripting with JBang instead of Python
07 Jan 2023 » Latest updates to microservices.iotitle: Latest updates to microservices.io: new content and taggingcolon; new content and tagging
05 Jan 2023 » Updated microservice architecture presentations
29 Nov 2022 » Considering Migrating a Monolith to Microservices? A Dark Energy, Dark Matter Perspective
26 Oct 2022 » QCONSF 2022: Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!
11 Jul 2022 » August 29th: public designing a microservice architecture workshop in APAC (GMT+9) timezone
04 May 2022 » Essential characteristics of the microservice architecture: independently deployable
02 May 2022 » Dark energy, dark matter and microservice architecture collaboration patterns
01 May 2022 » My new Windows 365 Cloud PC: Windows 11, Docker Desktop and WSL2
23 Apr 2022 » 10 years of 'microservices'
12 Apr 2022 » Interview about microservices with Koushik Kothagal (@Java_Brains)
12 Apr 2022 » June 7th public microservice architecture workshop in APAC (GMT+9) timezone
06 Apr 2022 » Using scenarios to reinvigorate your microservice architecture
16 Mar 2022 » Icebergs, the Interface Segregation Principle and microservices
15 Mar 2022 » My new Manning LiveProject: developing a service template and microservice chassis
02 Mar 2022 » The Eventuate Tram Customers and Orders example now runs on Arm/M1 MacBook!!
25 Feb 2022 » Publishing a multi-architecture Docker image for the Eventuate CDC service
23 Feb 2022 » Publishing multi-architecture base images for services
21 Feb 2022 » Conversations about Software Engineering podcast: Service Templates and Service Chassis
18 Feb 2022 » The developer's essential knowledge pyramid
14 Feb 2022 » Building a multi-architecture Docker image for Apache Kafka
13 Feb 2022 » Finding that special plus one for your architecture
11 Feb 2022 » Configuring CircleCI to build, test and publish multi-architecture images for Eventuate Common
31 Jan 2022 » Configuring a CircleCI pipeline that builds a multi-architecture Docker image that runs on an Arm-based Apple M1 MacBook
28 Jan 2022 » Developing the Eventuate Common library on an M1/Arm MacBook
26 Jan 2022 » Using patterns and pattern languages to make better architectural decisions
23 Jan 2022 » If the Service template and Microservice chassis are the solution, what is the problem?
20 Jan 2022 » Configuring CircleCI to publish a multi-architecture Docker image
19 Jan 2022 » Writing better problem reports: 6 essential details
19 Jan 2022 » Testing an Intel and Arm multi-architecture Docker image on CircleCI
18 Jan 2022 » Configuring a CircleCI-based pipeline to build multi-architecture Docker images
16 Jan 2022 » Building multi-architecture Docker images for Intel and ARM
10 Jan 2022 » My Apple M1 MacBook: lots of cores, memory and crashing containers
04 Jan 2022 » Writing better problem reports: 6 essential details
30 Nov 2021 » Designing an architecture using dark matter and dark energy
31 Oct 2021 » iSAQB keynote - Modular monoliths and microservices: architectural patterns for rapid, reliable, frequent and sustainable development
15 Sep 2021 » Techlead Journal Podcast - Principles for Adopting Microservices Successfully
10 Aug 2021 » Revised patterns - Microservice Chassis and Service Template
28 Jul 2021 » Events to the rescue: solving distributed data problems in a microservice architecture
27 Jul 2021 » A pattern language for microservices
27 Jul 2021 » The Confident Commit podcast| Episode 6: Architecture meets delivery
02 Jun 2021 » Andorian development principles and practices
21 May 2021 » QConPlus 2021: Takeout burritos and minimizing design-time coupling in a microservice architecture
15 Apr 2021 » Mucon 2021 - Dark energy, dark matter: imperfect metaphors for designing microservices
21 Feb 2021 » Events on the outside, on the inside and at the core
14 Feb 2021 » When to use the microservice architecture: part 5 - the monolithic architecture and rapid, frequent, reliable and sustainable software delivery
30 Jan 2021 » End of January discounts for my Microservices book and bootcamp
04 Jan 2021 » The Microservices Assessment Platform is generally available
04 Jan 2021 » Designing loosely coupled services
15 Dec 2020 » GraalVM as pattern - work in progress
14 Dec 2020 » Designing loosely coupled services
24 Nov 2020 » Microservices - an architecture that enables DevOps
16 Nov 2020 » Working in a high-performance organization
18 Oct 2020 » Microservices and monoliths are both mistakes - picking the appropriate architecture for your application is still a best practice
16 Oct 2020 » Handling duplicate messages using the Idempotent consumer pattern
29 Sep 2020 » 497K views and countingtitle: 497K views and counting: My DockerCon 2016 talk - Microservices + Events + Docker = A Perfect Trio#58; My DockerCon 2016 talk - Microservices + Events + Docker = A Perfect Trio
22 Sep 2020 » The microservice architecture: enabling rapid, reliable, frequent and sustainable development
21 Aug 2020 » Decompose your monolith: Ten principles for refactoring a monolith to microservices
28 Jul 2020 » Decompose your monolith: Six principles for refactoring a monolith to microservices
30 Jun 2020 » Enrollment is now open for the distributed data patterns for microservices virtual bootcamp
02 Jun 2020 » Enrollment is now open for the beta of distributed data patterns for microservices virtual bootcamp
21 May 2020 » Why microservices - part 4: the last third of the success triangle: architectural requirements for rapid, frequent, reliable and sustainable development
14 May 2020 » A pattern language and visual notation for messaging systems: Enterprise integration patterns by @ghohpe and @bobby_woolf
04 May 2020 » Announcing the first virtual bootcamp - distributed data patterns in a microservice architecture
03 May 2020 » IT in the time of COVID-19 - the tale of three fictitious grocery stores
29 Apr 2020 » Announcing the first virtual bootcamp: distributed data patterns in a microservice architecture
11 Apr 2020 » Why microservices - part 3: two thirds of the success triangle - process and organization
30 Mar 2020 » Why microservices: part 2 - the need for sustainable development
19 Mar 2020 » The Japanese edition of Microservices Patterns
12 Mar 2020 » Online microservices workshops, virtual bootcamps and remote consulting
21 Feb 2020 » Slides for my #devnexus talk - Decompose your monolith
18 Feb 2020 » When to use the microservice architecture: part 1 - the need to deliver software rapidly, frequently, and reliably
04 Feb 2020 » Jfokus: Cubes, Hexagons, Triangles, and More: Understanding Microservices
02 Feb 2020 » Just a reminder: picking the appropriate architecture for your application is a best practice.
30 Jan 2020 » New microservices assessment feature - links to patterns
30 Jan 2020 » A glossary of microservice architecture terms
07 Jan 2020 » Books about high-performance software delivery: DevOps Handbook + Team Topologies + Accelerate + Microservices Patterns
12 Dec 2019 » Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas - Implementing an orchestration-based saga
02 Dec 2019 » New saga article - implementing orchestration-based sagas
02 Dec 2019 » Microservices workshop at Jfokus, Stockholm
14 Nov 2019 » New microservices pattern - Self-contained service
12 Nov 2019 » New video: Cubes, Hexagons, Triangles, and More: Understanding the Microservice Architecture Through Shapes
10 Nov 2019 » Microservices Patterns - Now available in Russian and on Audible
09 Oct 2019 » Decompose Your Monolith: Strategies for Migrating to Microservices
02 Oct 2019 » GOTO Chicago presentation: Not Just Events - Developing Asynchronous Microservices
20 Sep 2019 » Slides for my YOW! Perth and Singapore - Cubes, Hexagons, Triangles, and More - Understanding the Microservice Architecture Through Shapes
20 Sep 2019 » Slides for my Oracle CodeOne 2019 talk - Descending the Testing Pyramid - Effective Testing Strategies for Microservices
20 Sep 2019 » Slides for my Oracle CodeOne 2019 talk - Decompose Your Monolith - Strategies for Migrating to Microservices
15 Aug 2019 » Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas - Implementing a choreography-based saga
04 Aug 2019 » Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas part 2 - coordinating sagas
23 Jul 2019 » Do your architects actually work on architecture?
16 Jul 2019 » A great trilogy by Mark Schwartz (@schwartz_cio) - War and Peace and IT, A Seat at the Table, and The Art of Business Value
15 Jul 2019 » The FTGO application and the Database per service pattern
09 Jul 2019 » The YOW conferences in Perth, Hong Kong, and Singapore
09 Jul 2019 » MicroCPH - Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas
09 Jul 2019 » Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas - part 1
29 Jun 2019 » The Microservices assessment platform now supports organizations
22 Jun 2019 » Containers, the developer workflow and the test pyramid
18 Jun 2019 » Microservices adoption antipatterns
07 Jun 2019 » Microservices adoption anti-pattern: Red flag law
27 May 2019 » The Chinese translation of Microservices Patterns
21 May 2019 » Microservices adoption anti-pattern: More the merrier
12 May 2019 » Self-documenting services: generating a microservice canvas
30 Apr 2019 » Microservices adoption anti-pattern: Focussing on technology
28 Apr 2019 » New #GotoChgo, #microcph conference talks on asynchronous microservices - implementing Sagas and CQRS
28 Apr 2019 » Two more anti-patterns of microservices adoption
16 Apr 2019 » Books you should read - Why we sleep
09 Apr 2019 » Microservices adoption anti-pattern: Trying to fly before you can walk
24 Mar 2019 » Public microservices training in the Netherlands, May 15th and 16th
27 Feb 2019 » Documenting a service using the microservice canvas
25 Feb 2019 » Microservices adoption anti-pattern: scattershot adoption
16 Feb 2019 » What's a service - part 1?
16 Feb 2019 » Microservices workshops in Chicago and Stockholm
29 Jan 2019 » Public microservices training in Stockholm, May 8th and 9th
29 Jan 2019 » More on microservices anti-patterns
28 Jan 2019 » Microservices anti-patterns in Melbourne
14 Jan 2019 » Anti-pattern: microservices as the goal
12 Jan 2019 » My YOW! 2018 presentation: Events and Commands: Developing Asynchronous Microservices
10 Jan 2019 » Upcoming workshops at O'Reilly Software Architecture New York and GOTO Chicago
07 Jan 2019 » Microservices adoption anti-patterns: microservices are a magic pixie dust
31 Dec 2018 » The Microservice Architecture Assessment is now available
08 Nov 2018 » Mucon - Not Just Events, Developing Asynchronous Microservices
07 Nov 2018 » Microservices at the @thekonginc Summit in September
04 Nov 2018 » Potholes in the road from monolithic hell - Microservices adoption anti-patterns
18 Oct 2018 » Oracle Code One - Events and commands, developing asynchronous microservices
18 Oct 2018 » New and revised microservices classes
15 Oct 2018 » Microservices at Silicon Valley Code Camp
22 Mar 2018 » microXchg 2018 - Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas
20 Feb 2018 » CodeFreeze 2018 - There is no such thing as a microservice!
04 Dec 2017 » QCONSF 2017 presentation - ACID Is So Yesterday, Maintaining Data Consistency with Sagas
04 Dec 2017 » Upcoming public training - Microservices at UMN, Minneapolis in January
01 Aug 2017 » Presentation - Solving distributed data management problems in a microservice architecture
24 Jul 2017 » Revised data patterns
26 Mar 2017 » There is no such thing as a microservice!
24 Feb 2017 » New book - Microservice patterns
12 Feb 2017 » How to apply the pattern language
06 Jun 2016 » Fantastic presentation by Eric Evans on DDD and microservices
23 Feb 2016 » One day microservices class in Oakland, CA
21 Feb 2016 » Microservice chassis pattern
28 Jul 2015 » What's new with #microservices - July 28, 2015: integration platforms, new article on microservices and IPC
23 Jun 2015 » What's new with #microservices - June 23, 2015: @crichardson and microservices training
06 Jun 2015 » What's new with #microservices - June 6, 2015: @martinfowler, @crichardson, @adrianco
15 Mar 2015 » Microservice deployment patterns
01 Mar 2015 » Service discovery patterns
15 Jan 2015 » Event Sourcing + CQRS example microservices
02 Nov 2014 » Webinars on Spring Boot, Cloud Foundry, and Microservices
08 Sep 2014 » API gateway pattern added
12 May 2014 » What's new with #microservices - May 12th 2014
07 Apr 2014 » This week in #microservices - April 7th 2014
31 Mar 2014 » This week in #microservices - March 31st 2014
18 Mar 2014 » Welcome to Microservices!

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