Schedule: Microservices sessions

Mark Richards examines the the rise and fall of microservices. Over the past five years, microservices has been at the forefront of most books, articles, and company initiatives. While some companies experience success with microservices, most companies experience pain, cost overruns, and failed initiatives while designing and implementing this incredibly complex architecture style. Read more.

Jesus Manuel Piñeiro gives you a glimpse into the challenges Inditex overcame in the transition of the ecommerce platform from monolithic to a microservices environment, oriented toward using event-driven nonblocking I/O technologies like Node.js. Jesus highlights the architectural decisions, technology, and tools that allowed the company to leverage the commercial growth in the years to come. Read more.

Join Michael Hartle for a hands-on introduction to service meshes for microservice architectures using Envoy proxy, Java, and Spring. He explores practical applications for their dynamic, programmatic adaptation during runtime. Read more.

The most effective microservice systems are reactive, choreographed systems. Allen Holub explores what these are and outlines how to design and build them. Read more.

The path to migrating to microservices from a monolithic or service-oriented architecture is riddled with challenges, pitfalls, canyons, demons, and even fire-breathing dragons. Mark Richards walks you through the migration patterns that allow you to easily fly over this challenging road and ease the pain associated with moving to microservices. Read more.

There's a lot of talk about Istio and its principles, but Alex Soto goes one step beyond. He just introduces Istio to quickly move on to start covering advanced things like feature graduation, end-to-end security, tap comparison, mirroring traffic, and more. Read more.