Microservices
Why and when you should consider it...
...And when you shouldn't.
About me
- Lead Engineer at 8 Securities
- Back-End development (mainly ASP.NET)
- DevOps / Cloud Architecture and Web Services (Azure & AWS)
- Agile development and project management
What is a Monolith
Resources
Service Layer
Repositories
Data Mappers / ORMs
Gateways
Domain
Http Client
Simple design
Easy communications
Why need more...
What is a Monolith
...And it scales.
Load Balancer
Cons of Monolith
- Software
- Maintenance
- Stack / framework / language
- Hardware
- Slow and risky deployment
- Slow scaling
- Human
- Power centralization
- Bureaucracy
How To MicroService
Resources
Service Layer
Repositories
Data Mappers / ORMs
Gateways
Domain
Http Client
Ordering
Payment
Product
Shipment
How To MicroService
Ordering
Payment
Product
Shipment
Ordering
Payment
Product
Shipment
How To MicroService
Ordering
Payment
Product
Shipment
PROS of MICROSERVICES
- Software
- Less maintenance
- Independent stack / framework / language
- Hardware
- Independent / faster / safer deployment
- Independent / faster scaling
- Human
- Less power centralization
- Less bureaucracy
Cons of MICROSERVICES
- Software
- Asynchronous messaging needed
- Needs better software architect skills to set up
- Hardware
- Continuous deployment more complex to set up
- More network calls
- Needs better DevOps skills
- Human
- Migration might encounter resistance
- You might have to fire a few middle managers
CI/CD For MICROSERVICES
Build Server
Code Repo
Build
Run unit tests
Clone
Run integration tests
https://my.microservice.com/
Swap
Destroy
https://my.microservice.com/
Webhook