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7 Ways To Fail at Microservices

We all know the promise of microservices - organizational, agility, decoupling, pizza lunches, autonomy, fewer meetings. Some organizations actually achieve this. Others … don’t.

It turns out dividing an application up across multiple containers isn’t enough. Distributed is not a synonym for decoupled. A decomposed application may just be a health hazard. Cloud-native spaghetti isn’t something you want. Continuous deployment doesn’t mean ‘every six months’. And have you spoken to your release board and QA team about all this?

Here are some of the anti-patterns Holly will discuss:

  • The murky goal
  • Microservices envy
  • Cloud native spaghetti
  • The enterprise hairball, or “forgetting the back, front, and glue”
  • The not-actually-continuous continuous integration and deployment
  • The someday automation
  • The not-actually-cloudy cloud

Speaker

Holly Cummins

Quarkus Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat

Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Before joining Red Hat, Holly was a long time IBMer. In her time at IBM, Holly has been a full-stack javascript developer, a WebSphere Liberty build architect, a client-facing consultant, a JVM...

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Date

Tuesday Nov 2 / 12:10PM EDT (40 minutes)

Track

Microservice Patterns and Antipatterns: Lessons From the Trenches

Topics

MicroservicesArchitectureDistributed SystemsDeploymentContinuous DeploymentCloud NativeContinuous Delivery

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