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Events

Various meetups that talk about microservices

Books

Microservices in .NET by Christian Horsdal
Building Microservices by Sam Newman

Articles

Chris Richardson

Series of articles on the NGINX blog begining with Introduction to microservices
Infoq.com article on microservices
With other authors: InfoQ emag on microservices

Various articles on adopting microservices (see who is using microservices for more)

Hailo: Series of blog posts
Gilt: Making architecture work in microservices and Scaling Gilt: from Monolithic Ruby Application to Distributed Scala Micro-Services Architecture
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Martin Fowler

Article on microservices
Article on microservices tradeoffs

Victor Klang

Article on microservices

Jeppe Cramon ‏@jeppec

Interesting series of articles on microservices

Benjamin Wootton

Microservices - Not a free lunch!

Presentations and videos

Adrian Cockford:

Presentation: QCON London - Migrating to microservices

Fred George

Presentation: Microservice Architecture from Oredev 2012
Presentation: Implementing microservices from Oredev 2013
Challenges When Implementing Microservices and Why Programming Style Matters

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