Microservices - A love story.

This presentation takes you through a journey, the journey of moving from monolithic applications to microservices.

Transcript

1. Microservices - A Love Story NexTech Africa, Nairobi. 2-2-’17
2. Celestine Omin Father, Husband and Engineer Senior Technical Consultant, Andela @cyberomin Curator, African Git Meetup Blogs at http://cyberomin.github.io
3. In the Beginning - monoliths
4. Monoliths Everything is lumped together Single point of failure
5. Advantages of monoliths 1. Faster initial development 2. Improved integration
6. Disadvantages of monoliths 1. Testing 2. Deployment 3. Maintenance 4. Ownership - no one takes responsibility
7. Today and the future - microservices
8. Microservices, what’s that? Microservices is a specialisation of an implementation approach for service-oriented architectures (SOA) used to build flexible, independently deployable software systems. - Wikipedia
9. Why microservices Single business responsibility Stateless - no single point of failure Data is managed independently
10. Advantages of microservices 1. Best tool for each service 2. Supports and promotes continuous deployment 3. Teams work independently of each other 4. Loosely coupled system.
11. Disadvantages of microservices 1. Monitoring is harder 2. Implementing changes that span multiple services is hard 3. Distributed system complexities
12. Case study - ecommerce
13. Typical Component Product Information. Reviews Recommendation Orders Shipping
14. Sample ecommerce services Shopping Cart Service Shipping Service Inventory Service Recommendation Service Order Service Review Service Product Catalog Service
15. When do you use microservice ➔ When your team is matured enough There’s a learning curve that comes with microservices
16. Thank YOU