Articles about microservices

Looking to build and deploy microservices but not sure where to start? Check out Microservices with Spring Boot 3 and Spring Cloud, Third Edition.

With a practical approach, you'll begin with simple microservices and progress to complex distributed applications. Learn essential functionality and deploy microservices using Kubernetes and Istio. This book covers Java 17, Spring Boot 3, and Spring Cloud 2022. Java EE packages are replaced with the latest Jakarta EE packages.

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Microservices architecture allows developers to build and maintain applications with ease, and enterprises are rapidly adopting it to build software using Spring Boot as their default framework.

With Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, you’ll learn how to efficiently build and deploy microservices using Spring Boot. This microservices book will take you through tried and tested approaches to building distributed systems and implementing microservices architecture in your organization.

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Today, developers are used to running applications in the cloud. They are accustomed to using software containers and building applications using microservices components connected by APIs. Gartner estimates that more than 90 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2027, up from less than 40 percent in 2021. Similarly, the company has predicted that 70 percent of organizations will complement continuous delivery for their applications with continuous infrastructure automation to improve business agility by 2025.

From an infrastructure perspective, this means Kubernetes. However, Kubernetes was initially built to manage stateless application components rather than the rest of the infrastructure that goes to make up IT systems. For the other elements involved, such as databases, containerization had to be made to fit.

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New research shows that 85 percent of companies are modernizing their applications to a microservices architecture.

The study from Solo.io and ClearPath Strategies reveals that 56 percent of organizations with at least half of their applications on a microservices architecture have faster development cycles, with daily or more frequent releases.

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Aging infrastructure, legacy tools and outdated strategy. Businesses today that have one or more of these issues are quickly realizing that they're not set up for success.

As we start to see signs that the pandemic is getting under control in some places, many companies are finding themselves faced with the reality that they were ill prepared to handle the tumultuous nature of the past 12 months. Those who've struggled to make it this far are realizing it's time for more than just a refresh of their old systems. A new approach is needed.

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Launched in June of this year, the MACH Alliance (MACH standing for Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless) is a non-profit group of tech leaders advocating for a new, open and best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystem.

The Alliance aims to help enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape with the belief that competitive advantage doesn't come from owning the stack, but rather from being free to select the best available resources for the moment.

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The use of microservices is succeeding for 92 percent of organizations according to new research from learning resources company O'Reilly.

It surveyed over 1,500 software engineers, systems and technical architects, engineers, and decision-makers from around the globe and finds that 77 percent of respondents have adopted microservices.

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Part 2: The advent of Microservices has dramatically opened up the ability to rapidly develop and update applications and services. This is done by breaking them into very small pieces, where each piece can be managed by a single team or one team can manage several pieces. Each of these pieces then comes together with hundreds or thousands other pieces to create a larger framework or workflow. They are at the heart of the DevOps methodology, and an expectation today with the idea of a continues development or continuous delivery mindset.

This provides application and service owners the ability to rapidly scale, update, and develop their services is something that most modern business application service owners want. This also makes businesses run more efficiently. An example is when you need more delivery job servers, with Microservices you spawn more job services and you don’t go down.  Easier and more efficient. However, in today’s world, we need to remember that privacy and security have to be top concerns. And in today’s world, Microservices are lacking in this area.

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Part 1: You may have heard the term Microservices before, but every time you do, you ask yourself -- What exactly is a microservice?

Let’s break down exactly what this technology is, why it’s so great for organizations to leverage and challenges they should prepare for.

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