Styles of Microservices

You’ve heard that microservices allow development teams to use any language - how do you start? What is a microservice, really, anyway?

There’ve been tweets of microservices, emphasizing that they’re very short in code length and speedy to write, but is that really all they are, just a short bit of code?

Here’s an example using groovy with Pivotal’s Spring Boot:

@Grab("spring-boot-actuator")
@RestController
class GreetingsController { …

Approaching Microservices

There’s a lot of information out there about microservices. In this post, I’m going to describe how I see people approaching microservices and point out some of the good bits of information to get familiar with the concepts. Fair warning, this is somewhat of a meta-post.

Two Common Approaches

SOA: A great starting point

After reading a few articles on microservices, people that have been creating services or have read about services for the …