Microservices Frontend Integration with Mosaic9

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On Monday the 4th April we are inviting all interested to join a talk about Microservices by Moritz Grauel from Zalando.

We assemble at 18:30 pm and the talk "Microservices Frontend Integration with Mosaic9" starts at 19:00 pm until 20:00 pm. Afterwards we are looking forward to discussions and socializing while enjoying food and cold beverages.

Please remember to bring your ID for entry into the building.

Abstract:

Microservices are not news anymore. They allow multiple teams to work autonomously by choosing their own technology stacks and having their own release cycles. There is something not being addressed though, like if it is some kind of dirty little secret, and that is frontend development. The common practice for building websites remains 'the monolith': a single frontend codebase that consumes multiple APIs. We believe we found a better solution.
Last year, a handful of Zalando engineers came up with an innovative solution for this exact problem - project Mosaic. Mosaic is a new architecture for websites where microservices are used in the entire stack, all the way to the frontend.

We’ve published Mosaic as open source. Its main components are:Skipper - an HTTP router with runtime update of routesTailor - a streaming layout service with runtime update of templatesThe network is the glue putting it all together.

In this talk we want to share our motivation to build Mosaic, how to perform such migration without downtime, and the advantages it has to offer to other organizations, regardless of their size.

We'll go through the operational details about Skipper and how it can be customized to answer many other different requirements. We'll also describe in detail how Tailor can dramatically improve the perceived performance of your website by streaming frontend content, from multiple fragments, in parallel.

Bio:

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Moritz is a fullstack cat herder and anarchitect at Zalando. He shaves bike sheds and creates the most beautiful yaks at Zalandos Fashion Store team. Before he joined Zalando, he was living in the streets of Berlin, fighting bad code in the frontend and battling convoluted systems on the servers. During the last months, he became most famous for his ridiculous red moustache. Some say, it starts to slightly tremble in the presence of bugs or uncontrolled side-effects. Moritz declines to comment on this.

Twitter: @mo_gr (https://twitter.com/mo_gr?lang=en)