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Modern microservices architectures are event-driven, reactive, and choreographed (as opposed to being centrally controlled via an orchestrator). That makes them loosely coupled and easy to change.

Unshackling enterprises from their monolithic applications, one link at a time. The promise of microservices for the enterprise (today) is this: If the parts of an application could be staged ...

The idea behind microservices and a microservices architecture is relatively simple: hide all the complexities of hardware, operating systems, and different development toolkits behind a standard ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Microservices provide a means to integrate multiple employee applications into a single interface, but they aren't necessarily for everyone. The idea of microservices has been around for over a decade ...

With microservices riding a wave of popularity, those with short memories may have overlooked the approach's striking resemblance to service-oriented architecture, which first emerged two decades ago.

Chris Richardson is not a microservices skeptic, though you wouldn’t know it from the title of his keynote presentation, “There Is No Such Thing as a Microservice!” On the contrary, Richardson, a ...

Microservices is an approach to software development that has seen a rising tide of interest over the last decade or so, going hand-in-hand with other trends such as cloud-native, agile development ...

Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance. For a simpler way to think about how a microservices architecture works, take the example of how the making and ...