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1. MICROSERVICES
Rouan Wilsenach
@rouanw
H o w t o b e g i n u s i n g

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“I love those little
things!”
Anonymous microservices fan

3. WHAT ?

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What it’s not: The monolith

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“Microservices are small,
autonomous services that
work together.”
Sam Newman

6. WHY ?

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Do one thing well

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The right tool for the job

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Easier to replace
“Let's face it, all we are doing is
writing tomorrow's legacy software”
Martin Fowler
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html

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Less risky to try new technologies

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Easier to introduce new practices

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Resilience

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Independent scaling

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Less baggage, more trips

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Composability

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Four things that get harder with size
Change Learning Architecture Deployment

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AND BANKING

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Very transactional business
Composing core capabilities
Mainframe programs
Pace of change

19. HOW TO START?

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Start with one

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Know your limits
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html
Rapid provisioning
Basic Monitoring
Rapid application
deployment

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Smaller is better than big

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Start simple

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Align each service with customer value

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Lightweight frameworks

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Write a well-tested, easy to use API

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Decoupled collaboration
“be conservative in what
you do, be liberal in what
you accept from others”
Postel’s Law
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TolerantReader.html

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Working software is the best contract

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Simple systems
Refactoring between services
Tricky things…
Identifying boundaries
Co-ordinating between teams

30. ENABLING MICROSERVICES

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“organizations which design systems
are constrained to produce designs
which are copies of the communication
structures of these organisations”
Conway’s Law

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Cultural and organisational shifts

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Enable. Don’t prescribe.

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Make deployment easy

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Monitoring

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Versioning

37. Q & A

38. @samnewman

39. SOME PLACES TO START
Video
•http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/microservices-nutshell (watch James
Lewis’s video near the bottom of the page)
Article
•http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html (keep an eye on Martin’s blog for
more content on Microservices)
Book
•http://samnewman.io/books/building_microservices/ (Sam’s blog is also great to keep
an eye on)
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40. MICROSERVICES
Rouan Wilsenach
@rouanw
H o w t o b e g i n u s i n g