Welcome to the original Microservices Weekly! The week's issue is rather long, but there is a lot of interesting content to share in relation to deploying microservices, API simulation, team building and more... Development News

Deploying Node.js Microservices to AWS Lambda with Claudia.js: Q&A with Author Gojko Adzic

I sat down with Gojko (author of the awesome 'Impact Mapping' and 'Specification by Example' books) and chatted about his latest project for deploying Node.js microservices to AWS Lambda



http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/microservices-lambda-claudiajs





DRAFT NIST "Definition of Microservices, Application Containers and System Virtual Machines" [Feedback Requested]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are attempting to define microservices. The draft has some hits and some misses, and NIST are looking for feedback with a deadline of 18th March



http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-180/sp800-180_draft.pdf



Feedback here: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-180





Stubbing, Mocking and Service Virtualization Differences for Test and Development Teams, by Wojciech Bulaty

I believe that service virtualisation or 'API Simulation' can be a very useful tool when working with legacy systems (perhaps as part of a microservice migration), and this article provides a nice intro to the theory



http://www.infoq.com/articles/stubbing-mocking-service-virtualization-differences





Using API Simulation to Build Microservices Alongside a Java Monolith, by Daniel Bryant

Following the theme of 'API Simulation', I have been working with the SpectoLabs team, and using their Hoverfly tool with Spring Boot microservices



http://www.specto.io/blog/using-api-simulation-to-build-microservices.html





Breaking Things On Purpose, by Kolton Andrus

Kolton has a lot of experience on microservice fault tolerance, coming from his experiences at Netflix, and this is a great talk from the recent Datawire 'microservices practitioner summit'.



http://www.microservices.com/kolton-andrus-breaking-things-on-purpose





"Lagom is coming for your monolith." by Lightbend

A sneak preview of a new 'reactive' microservice framework from Lightbend (the company formally known as Typesafe)



https://www.lightbend.com/lagom





JFokus Conference Microservices Video

I couldn't make it to Jfokus in Stockholm this year, but it is a truly awesome conference. There are a bunch of interesting microservice-related videos, the highlights of which are below:



Building Fault Tolerant Microservices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKO33eMwXRs



Microservices for Mortals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeDNuO-9eic



Modelling Microservices at Spotify

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XDA044tl8k





The Tao of Microservices, by Richard Rodger (Book)

This high-level book offers a 'conceptual view of microservice architectures, along with core concepts and their application'. Only a couple of chapters are available within this MEAP, but the concept looks interesting. Get 50% discount with code 'mlrodger'



https://www.manning.com/books/the-tao-of-microservices Ops & Infrastructure

Creating Microservice Deployment Pipelines with Netflix’s Spinnaker: A Perspective from Google

A summary of Rick Buskens excellent microXchg talk about how Google have been working with Netflix on their Spinnaker continuously deployment platform



http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/microservice-deploys-spinnaker





DevOps in a MicroServices Environment, by Michael Norman

Thoughts on how 'DevOps' affect a microservice implementation and vice versa



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI88PifFikw





Docker Inc Release 'Docker Datacenter' to Support On-Premise 'Containers as a Service' (CaaS)

Docker are making their play for deploying and managing microservices (and containers of course) in the enterprise



http://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/docker-datacenter-caas





Spread - Deploy Docker to Kubernetes in one command

Spread is a command line tool that builds and deploys a Docker project to a Kubernetes cluster in one command.



https://github.com/redspread/spread





Improving Kubernetes Scheduler Performance, by Hongchao Deng

An deep-dive read on the very important topic of scheduling



https://coreos.com/blog/improving-kubernetes-scheduler-performance.html Organisation & Business

Deciphering the Buzzword Bingo by Abby Kearns

An interesting talk by Abby, Product Manager at Pivotal Cloud Foundry, that looks at our common usage of buzzwords, particularly in relation to Cloud Foundry. Topics covered include the principles, challenges and misconceptions behind PaaS/IaaS buzzwords



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADz5Fuk4_qs





Building Software at Etsy, by Lauren Sperberg

Yes, I know Etsy run a monolith, but they do it very well! :-) In this post Lauren provides some great insight into the core values behind Etsy's approach to software development



http://www.laurensperber.com/2016/02/25/presentation-building-software-at-etsy/





What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Great article talking about the traits of successful teams. TLDR: on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same proportion, and had high empathy



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?_r=0





Vendors: Frenemies Or Friends?

The Arrested DevOps team talk about experiences working for vendors and being on the customer side of the table.



https://goatcan.do/2016/02/13/the-goat-farm-episode-10-vendors-frenemies-or-friends/ Tweet about Microservices Weekly | Email this to a friend | Share Microservices on LinkedIn Conference Call for Papers Deadlines

Velocity - New York - Closes 5th April

http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/devops-web-performance-ny/public/cfp/446 Conferences and Events Diary

QCon London 2016 - London - 7th-9th March

http://qconlondon.com/



KubeCon EU 2016 - London - 10th-11th March

https://kubecon.io/



Pipieline Continuous Delivery Conference - London - 23rd March

http://web.pipelineconf.info/



O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference - New York - 11th-13th April

http://conferences.oreilly.com/software-architecture/engineering-business-us



ACCU Conference - Bristol, UK - 19th-23rd April

http://accu.org/index.php/conferences/accu_conference_2016



CraftConf - Budapest, Hungary - 26th-29th April

http://www.craft-conf.com/2016



JAX DevOps - London - 27th-29th April

https://devops.jaxlondon.com/



HashiConf EU - Amsterdam - 13-15th June

https://www.hashiconfeu.com/



Velocity - Santa Clara - 20th-21st June

Use the code MSW20 for 20% off Gold, Silver & Bronze passes.

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