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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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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

DevOps engineer DevOps focuses on blending IT operations with the development process to improve IT systems and act as a go-between in maintaining the flow of communication between coding and engineering teams. Role growth: 21% of companies have added DevOps engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

CIO

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. We chose to break down the monolithic application into smaller, more manageable microservices.”

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Scalable Annotation Service?—?Marken

Netflix Tech

Scalable Annotation Service — Marken by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal Introduction At Netflix, we have hundreds of micro services each with its own data models or entities. Our team, Asset Management Platform, decided to create a generic service called Marken which allows any microservice at Netflix to annotate their entity.

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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. Our architects share the design ideas with the developers and engineers who will implement the design. Digital Transformation

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9 Things You Should Know About Microservices

Datavail

If you’re in the technology field and you live on planet earth, you’ve probably heard the term “microservices” thrown around. The purpose of this article will be to give you a familiarity with microservices and what it (not “they”) does. Microservices. Microservices is not just a buzzword. Microservices are more secure.

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One Team at Uber is Moving from Microservices to Macroservices

High Scalability

There may be an undiscovered tribe deep in some jungle somewhere that hasn’t made up their mind on microservices, but I doubt it. People love microservices or love to hate microservices. So it means something when even a team at a company like Uber announces a change away from microservices to something else.