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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microservices seem to be everywhere. Scratch that: talk about microservices seems to be everywhere. So we wanted to determine to what extent, and how, O’Reilly subscribers are empirically using microservices. Here’s a summary of our key findings: Most adopters are successful with microservices. And that’s the problem.

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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership

CircleCI

Hello Mr. Microservice, why do humans like working on you?”. “Oh, Oh, hi there,” the microservice responds, eyes darting, desperately trying to get out of the conversation. “I replied the microservice. But those microservices are always talking about how everybody works with them. It begins to converse with other code.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We’ll be working with microservices and serverless/functions-as-a-service in the cloud for a long time–and these are inherently concurrent systems. Think quality control in a factory; think intelligent search on O’Reilly online learning ; think optimizing data compression ; think tracking progress on a construction site.