Owen Evans discusses the benefits of a microservice architecture known as Hoist which focuses on small, independent services that communicate via events rather than requests. Hoist uses immutable architecture and publishes events rather than handling requests to improve scalability, reliability and development speed compared to monolithic architectures.

1. Owen Evans, C O - F O U N D E R , H O I S T. I O
For the Love of Small

2. W H O ?

3. by a micro-service?
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4. I N D E F E N S E O F T H E M O N O L I T H

5. Why?

6. S C A L E

7. How?

8. C O M M A N D S V S Q U E R I E S

9. M E S S A G E S
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18. DO NOT TOUCH!!
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19. T H E U X I S S U E

20. I’m a pragmatist
H O L D the P H O N E

21. S TA R T O N T H E O U T S I D E

22. C O N C E N T R AT E O N V E R T I C A L S L I C E S

23. what is Hoist?
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24. E V E N T S , N O T R E Q U E S T S
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