Big brands like Amazon and Netflix are embracing microservice architecture, but what is it, and how does it fit into application and software development? The software products we use every day for ...

The idea of distributed, componentized applications goes back a long way. Most notoriously, it emerged in the form of the SOA (service-oriented architecture) trend that peaked eight yeas ago. Now, ...

Microservices is an approach to software development that has seen a rising tide of interest over the last decade or so, going hand-in-hand with other trends such as cloud-native, agile development ...

Developer empowerment is a key part of the microservices trend, says Nginx's Owen Garrett, who offers lessons learned from real world implementations The term “microservices” might be relatively new, ...

A debate going on in the microservices world misses the point of why we deploy microservices in the first place: small is safer. Microservices and containers are quickly becoming part of the ...

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Most organizations move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to trim costs and improve scalability. But by moving away from AWS, at least one company found it could reduce costs and improve control while ...

Cloud-native architectures built upon Docker- and Kubernetes-based deployments are all the rage today. Teams that adopt microservices can enjoy some clear advantages, such as the following: ...