The Microservices architecture seems to be something that everyone is talking about but only few understand it well, let alone implement it and that too following all best practices. In this second episode, we are joined by a fellow DF member Ashwat to try and demystify the concept. Once we have the general definition out of the way, we’ll dissect a couple of real-world examples to see how the microservices architecture fits and solves their problems.
IRCTC, one of India’s most visited websites, is a great case in point. And so is Netflix, a company that sort of championed the use of this new architecture. We further discuss how the scaling cube works, and then take a look at decomposition, a key technique in deciding how to break a big application into micro services. Other topics discussed are bounded context, single responsibility principle (SRP), and common closure principle (CCP).
P.S. Apologies for the occasional background noise. Since this was a ‘live’ podcast, a few others from the DF community had joined to listen, learn, share and ask. I didn’t use the ‘mute by default’ setting because of which some mics made some noises. Will not happen from next time.