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Evolutionary architectures, Patrick Kua, and yes, size does matter

21. 04. 2020
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Size matters!

Discussing microservice size is like discussing whether eggs are good for you. Ten people will give you thirteen opinions.

But just as we have seen tides turn several times over the years when it comes to eggs being healthy, the same thing is happening these days with microservice size. Organizations are bouncing between extremes: from monoliths to super granular microservices, and almost back.

non-linear evolutionary architectures and microservices

In their quest for optimal microservice size, organizations can make use of some guidelines. Take a look at how Uber is handling this issue and how organizations can approach slicing their services.

Riding with the King

Patrick Kua is former CTO and Chief Scientist at N26, former Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks and a book author. His experience in building complex systems and organizations puts him among top people on my interview bucket list! And if it weren’t for COVID-19, we would have met this year on our annual QED conference where Patrick was announced as our keynote speaker… but we all know how this one played out. Nevertheless, I chatted with Patrick on some of these topics and I really hope to meet him in person soon.

“Riding with the Queen/King” is our series featuring short interviews with super interesting people from the field of technology.

Hand picked

+ Roland Barcia from IBM shares a nice overview of how integration looks like in cloud-native age.

+ Site Reliability Engineering is gaining popularity. What is the relationship between SRE, SLO, SLI and SLA? And how are organizations using them? Find out in a research by Julie McCoy and dr. Nicole Forsgren on SLO Adoption and Usage in Site Reliability Engineering. Here you will find an explanation of all the terms along with research results and couple of case studies.

+ After a few years of working with Axon Framework, our colleague Slaven Krnjić did a little retrospective and put down some of his thoughts on using Event Sourcing and CQRS.

+ Pop quiz: do you know when your certificates expire? Tick-tock, tick-tock… If not, Grafana Labs is offering an easy way to expose and monitor certificate expirations using Grafana and Prometheus.

+ Red Hat® Training and Certification is offering Introduction to OpenShift® Applications (DO101) at no cost until June 30, 2020. A self-paced course with HD videos, text-based course content and 10 hours of hands-on lab time. Claim it now! Hint: once you log in, full discount will be applied.

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Building Evolutionary Architectures

building evolutionary architectures book

A super relevant book for times we’re living in! After establishing what a software architecture is, the book continues with good advices on how to define it, measure it and make it evolutionary in terms of applications and data.

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“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” 

—Leslie Lamport, computer scientist, father of LaTeX, winner of the 2013 Turing Award

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