Summary
Morgan Bruce author of Microservices in Action talks about how and why he builds microservices.
Details
Who he is, what he does, his stack. Morgan's book. What is a microservice, difference between microservice and monolith; are monoliths still ok. What to do with a new application. How small should a microservice be. Can a microservice be made up of multiple languages. Microservices calling other microservices; service discovery. Tracing requests across services, tracing on buses. Keeping a copy of data or calling another microservice. Bounded contexts, getting the boundaries right. Deploying, scaling, rolling back. Monitoring. Redeploying a faulty container. Are microservices worth the trouble.
Enjoyed this episode! Helped put some more context to the microservices my dev team is building.
Hi Stephen, glad it helped.
Working in a small team on applications which scaling is not a concern I haven’t spent much time looking into microservices. His answer to your last question specifically about this I found helpful and has me interested some now. Thank you.
I appreciate the discussion balancing the advantages of microservices with the special considerations like data sharing and discoverability. I’ve never had the opportunity to build a “true” microservice as separate and autonomous data stores are a very hard sell to management when single databases have been the norm forever. While we are leveraging Azure slot deployments to make releases easier, one thing that still puts a crimp on it is that too many apps rely on the same database. Slots are great but great care must be taken when a database deployment goes along with it. I think this is a great case for trying to use microservices from the start of a project.
Nice to think about microservices as services that are not just small, but separate. They can be updated separately and deployed separately. I know I tend to focus on the micro, but it’s really about autonomy.
On completely unrelated topic. Did you stopped submitting podcasts to Spotify? Latest episode I see there is 107.
Thanks for letting me know, I’ll check into it.
That should be fixed now.