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How an architecture-led transformation puts the customer first

CIO

With this in mind, we embarked on a digital transformation that enables us to better meet customer needs now and in the future by adopting a lightweight, microservices architecture. We found that being architecturally led elevates the customer and their needs so we can design the right solution for the right problem.

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Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices

TechCrunch

An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app. The widespread microservices adoption has spawned new problems in app development, however. ” Drenova acknowledges the many rivals in the microservices orchestration space.

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Microservices orchestration platform Temporal raises $75M and remains a unicorn

TechCrunch

Temporal , an open source microservices orchestration platform used by companies, including Netflix, Snap and Comcast, has raised $75 million from a slew of high-profile investors including Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks. The startup has also maintained its coveted unicorn status with a valuation of “just over” $1.5

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Article: Managing Technical Debt in a Microservice Architecture

InfoQ Culture Methods

At QCon Plus, Glenn Engstrand described how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices, forming relevant communities and identifying high-risk areas.

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

In his best-selling book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler famously coined the first law of distributed computing—"Don’t distribute your objects"—implying that working with this style of architecture can be challenging. How these strategies can be applied in different size engineering organizations.

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Microservices vs. Monolith at a Startup: Making the Choice

Dzone - DevOps

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. The allure of a microservice architecture is understandable in today's tech state of affairs, where scalability, flexibility, and independence are highly valued.

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Cortex raises $15M Series A to help development teams wrangle their microservices

TechCrunch

Cortex , a startup that helps engineering teams get improved visibility into the Rube Goldberg machine that is their microservices architecture and improve their overall development practices around it, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, which led the company’s $2.5

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Prioritize engineering work by putting it in the context of end user experience. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams.