Microservices Meetup

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Agenda

6:30 - Arrive, brief introductions.

6:40 - RockScript.io (http://rockscript.io/) : Resilient microservice integration

7:20 - Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway?

8:00(ish) - Finish.

RockScript.io (http://rockscript.io/) : Resilient microservice integration

Abstract:
Learn how easy it is to build resilient integrations between microservices, SaaS web API’s and cloud service API’s. RockScript is easy because it leverages JavaScript syntax. The engine persists the execution state with event sourcing. This enables long running activities, crash recovery and extreme visibility. We’ll explain the the core concept of an activity and how it enables more readable business logic in the scripts and prevents that error handling and operational aspects creep in the code. We’ll also compare RockScript to alternatives like AWS Step Functions, Netflix Conductor and Microsoft Logic Apps.

Takeaways:
An activity is a concept that simplifies reactive coding
Resilient script execution is ideal for integrating microservices
Extreme visibility into production executions saves time when chasing bugs

Bio:
Tom Baeyens is founder of RockScript. Before RockScript, he founded open source worklfow engines jBPM (JBoss/Red Hat), Activiti (Alfresco) and SaaS BPM product Workflow Accellerator (Signavio).Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombaeyens

Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway?

Abstract:

As the microservice architecture pattern gains more and more popularity people are also finding the complexities running such a set of services. Using an API gateway can mitigate some of the complexity as it provides a single-point-of-contact for clients and a layer to handle cross-cutting concerns such as authorization and rate limiting.

Takeaways:

• learn the role of an API gateway

• learn the benefits what an API gateway would bring into microservice architecture

• learn some deployment techniques how to effectively manage API gateway for different services

Bio:

Jussi Nummelin has architected and operated numerous software platforms and applications during his 15+ year career. Having worked for companies ranging from mobile operator Elisa to telecom systems and mobile phone provider Nokia to systems integrator Digia, Jussi has gained deep and wide experience in creating and running highly scalable fault tolerant systems. Having boldly gone to production with the Docker 0.6 release at his previous company and being hard headed, Jussi stayed in the container business and is now one of the core engineers building container orchestration at Kontena, Inc. https://kontena.io