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Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Testability and Deployability

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MicroservicesOctober 31, 2018

During the Kong Summit in September Chris Richardson, founder of CloudFoundry.com, gave an excellent talk describing the characteristics of microservice architectures . He outlined the benefits of microservices, including testability and deployability. He also discussed the drawbacks. Microservices…

Mike Bilodeau

Built-in Health Checks for High Availability Microservices

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MicroservicesJune 27, 2018

Developers are turning to microservices in greater numbers to help break through the inflexibility of old monolithic applications. Microservices offer many benefits, including separation of concerns, team autonomy, fault tolerance, and scaling across multiple regions for high availability. Learn…

Hisham Muhammad

So You’ve Decided to Transition to Microservices, What Now?

So You’ve Decided to Transition to Microservices, What Now?
MicroservicesJune 26, 2018

This is the second of two blogs examining considerations for transitioning to a microservices-based architecture. For more information, check out our e-book Blowing Up the Monolith: Adopting a Microservices-Based Architecture . In our previous blog, we outlined the five questions we must consider…

Mike Bilodeau
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