Microservices coverage at DevOps.com

Posted on Feb 12 2015

I did an interview recently with Stephen Withers, where we discussed a whole chunk of micorservice-related topics, and the result of that conversation is now up at DevOps.com. We spent quite a bit of time talking about the importance of the DevOps cultural movement and the tooling that has emerged from that space. The drive towards teams owning and operating their own services has been made possible by DevOps, and is a key part of achieving the autonomy that everyone seems to be driving for. I think it's good to reflect that however shinny some of the technology microservices might be, that a shift in behavior is often the most important part.

The culture of Automation is also key. In our interview I talked about REA's own experiences in the power of proper automation. From the article:

"REA approached micro-services progressively. In the first three months it made sure the foundations were in place and put two micro-services into production. But in the second trimester it was able to deploy around a dozen more, and in 18 months more than 60 were live.""

I can forgive Stephen his egregious use of the hyphen :-)

As I talk about in the book, these experiences are similar to those of gilt, who have talked before about how they were able to scale up the number of microservices they have with the right tooling.