Adopting Microservices means speed

“it’s crucial to adopt a four-tier application architecture in which applications are developed and deployed as sets of microservices.”

I love this article from the nginx.com website, courtesy of Hacker News. Very good overview of the “microservices” meme that is currently rippling through the industry. This is stuff we’ve all known – heck, we’ve been doing SOA for 10+ years – but the new term is helping to organize thoughts and understanding about why services as a metaphor is important, why services need to be lightweight, why service contracts (APIs!) need to be loose and forward-compatible, why the development of cooperating services must be done independently.

“It’s becoming increasingly clear that if you keep using development processes and application architectures that worked just fine ten years ago, you simply can’t move fast enough to capture and hold the interest of mobile users who can choose from an ever-growing number of apps.”

Oh yeah! Preach it!

The article discusses Netflix and their adoption of the microservices architecture.

I really respect Netflix as a company that moves quickly and constantly adjusts, seeking optimized architectures to address business problems. All the talking and proselytizing they’re doing around microservices is just the latest reason to really like them. I also really hate Netflix as my children seem to be unable to resist the service for even 15 minutes. Me and Netflix – It’s complicated.

Independent of Netflix and the microservices topic, nginx is also really cool. I found it super easy to configure to accomplish some nifty things in some of my work.


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