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"The tree" - See also   my photo page When you are fairly new within the Microservices land, there are a lot of terms fired at you. So also for my own understanding i have made a mindmap. I think it has a good status now, so that i can share it with you. As always feedback is very welcome ! You can download the mindmap here .

Key Takeaways             Three primary aspects of evolutionary architecture: fitness functions, incremental change and appropriate coupling Design for change on multiple dimensions (technical, data, security and operational) Combine DevOps (Continuous Delivery) practices with fitness functions to verify the architecture       Migrate to another architecture for good reasons (for example better team structure and operational isolation), not because “it’s the current trend” Building Evolutionary Architectures is a promising title for a book. I was also triggered and wanted to read the book. This is a review of the book with my own humble opinion. First a short description of the chapters is given. Chapter 1 - Software Architecture A definition of evolutionary architecture is described, which states that it supports guided, incremental...

"The Microservices train" made by Roger van de Kimmenade (see my Photos page ) Intro I am a fairly newby within the Microservices world but I have more experience with Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architectures and more. So lately I began to read more about the architecture style of Microservices. In each blog item or news item I come across a new name of a tool/framework. So the idea came to try to make a reference architecture and a toolsheet in which each tool is mapped to that reference architecture. I have come to a state that I can use your help! Which concepts are missing and which tools can I add? Please leave comments. Reference Architecture This is my first go of a kind of hybrid Microservices reference architecture, in which an integration layer is used to expose COTS products and legacy. Tool/framework sheet The next sheet is freely available and contains a list of tools and frameworks, that can be used within the Microservi...

Conference On the 22 and 23rd of March i went to the "Microservices Conference 2018, MicroXchg" in Berlin. This blog post is a short recap of my experience of this conference, which was held for the 4th time. My goal was to learn more about the Microservices world, to fill my toolset of possible architecture solutions and of course to see Berlin a bit. Furthermore i interviewed Chris Richardson about Microservices and his upcoming book on Patterns. This interview is added to this blog as well. A note: everything within this blog is purely my own opinion. Location The location where the conference was held, was Kalkscheune in Berlin. A nice location with big conference rooms. There were 5 different rooms and everything was recorded. Overall program There were 4 parallel sessions with 1 indepth-session. The normal sessions were 50 minutes long, so this was a good time to get some more detailed information and there was also time for questions. As i wan...