Continuous Delivery of Microservices: Patterns and Processes

Tight coupling and interdependence between dev teams slows down development, and environment drift causes deployment problems when promoting applications between environments. The introduction of the microservices architecture expands on the role of SOA by allowing for the looser coupling of endpoints and environments, with more predictability, flexibility, and agility. Anders Wallgren says that microservices have gained attention for their ability to facilitate innovation among dev teams. By architecting applications into sets of smaller services that are more focused, dev teams can more readily make changes without having to release—and build, and test, and deploy—the entire monolithic application with each update. By splitting the monolithic application into smaller services and decoupling the interdependencies between apps, dev teams, technologies, environments, and tooling, microservices allow for more flexibility and agility in scaling your organization’s productivity. Anders will discuss modern requirements for creating, deploying, and managing multiple microservices—both independently and as a collection—to satisfy end user requirements and allow for continuous delivery.