Real-world learnings, opinions and takeaways from working on microservices with customer across many industries.

1. bart.mathis@microsoft.com

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5. Yay microservices?

6. What are microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/microservices/

7. What are (and Why) microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/microservices/
A response to the “Big Ball of Mud”
A response to the “ESB SOA”
A response to the “Conway’s Law”

8. What are microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/microservices/

9. Are microservices “micro”?
https://apigee.com/about/blog/technology/microservices-bad-name-good-idea

10. What are microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/microservices/

11. Microservice envy?
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/microservice-envy

12. Monoliths are the future?
https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-forget-microservices-monoliths-are-the-way-forward/

13. Prerequisites
https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html

14. Before and After – In Theory
https://medium.com/@nathankpeck/microservice-principles-decentralized-data-management-4adaceea173f

15. Before and After – In Practice
https://medium.com/@nathankpeck/microservice-principles-decentralized-data-management-4adaceea173f

16. From mono to micro
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/microservices-an-application-revolution-powered-by-the-cloud/

17. From mono to micro
https://www.tigerteam.dk/2014/microservices-its-not-only-the-size-that-matters-its-also-how-you-use-them-part-4/

18. Reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/microservices-
architecture/multi-container-microservice-net-applications/microservice-

19. How (not) to start?
https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

20. How (not) to start?
https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html

21. How to start (data)?
https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/BoundedContext.html

22. How to start (data)?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/microservices-architecture/architect-microservice-container-

23. How to start (pitfalls)?
http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

24. How to start (comms)?
http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

25. How to start (size)?
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

26. What’s hard about microservices?
https://blog.takipi.com/5-ways-to-not-f-up-your-microservices-in-production/

27. What’s hard about microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

28. What’s hard about microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

29. Remember this?
https://www.tigerteam.dk/2014/microservices-its-not-only-the-size-that-matters-its-also-how-you-use-them-part-4/

30. What’s hard about microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing/

31. What’s hard about microservices?
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/microservice-testing/

32. Reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/microservices-architecture/multi-container-microservice-net-
applications/microservice-application-design