Microservices Adoption Antipatterns

Thanks to NAB for hosting this meetup. It will be located at "The Hall" on Level 3 at 700 Bourke Street. As you come in the main entrance, head up the escalators and turn right.

Note that we are heavily oversubscribed so if your plans change please update your RSVP to give a chance to our waitlist.

We're really excited to welcome back Chris Richardson for our January Microservices Meetup.

Talk Title: Microservices adoption anti-patterns: Obstacles to decomposing for testability and deployability

A typical mission-critical enterprise application is a large, complex monolith developed by large team. The velocity of software delivery is usually slow, and the team struggles to keep up with the demands of the business. Consequently, many enterprise applications are good candidates to be migrated to the microservice architecture. As you might expect, migrating to microservices requires an enterprise to tackle numerous technology-related challenges. But enterprises often encounter obstacles that have less to do with technology and more to do with strategy, process, and organization.

In this talk I describe the essential characteristics of the microservice architecture.You will learn about its benefits and its drawbacks. I describe several anti-patterns of microservices adoption that I've observed while working with clients around the world. You’ll learn the challenges that enterprises often face and how to overcome them as well as how to avoid the potholes when escaping monolithic hell.

Bio: Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2.