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Welcome to the first of what is hopefully a regular roundup of what’s new and relevant in the world of microservices. In the past week:
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Russ Miles (@russmiles) announced µCon, the first conference about microservices. It takes place in London on November 27th-28th.
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Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) published the final installments of his in-depth article about microservices.
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Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz compared microservices with SOA and argued that “microservices” is not a good term.
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Gawain Hammond (@gawainhammond) wrote a blog post on microservices defending the term “microservices”.
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@rrees wrote in interesting summary of a session on microservices at the Scale Summit.
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Chris Richardson (@crichardson) published Thoughts about #microservices – less micro, more service? that suggested that there should be more emphasis on “service” and less on “micro”.
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There was also the ongoing twitter discussion.
And then there was this:
#microservices pic.twitter.com/T7XOjcUE73
Tom Janssens (@ToJans) March 25, 2014The patterns
Application architecture patterns
Decomposition
Deployment patterns
- Multiple service instances per host
- Service instance per host
- Service instance per VM
- Service instance per Container
- Serverless deployment
- Service deployment platform
Cross cutting concerns
Communication style
External API
Transactional messaging
Service discovery
- Client-side discovery
- Server-side discovery
- Service registry
- Self registration
- 3rd party registration
Reliability
Data management
- Database per Service
- Shared database
- Saganew
- API Compositionnew
- CQRS
- Event sourcing
- Application events
Security
Testing
Observability
- Log aggregation
- Application metrics
- Audit logging
- Distributed tracing
- Exception tracking
- Health check API
- Log deployments and changesnew
UI patterns