Discover this podcast and so much more

Podcasts are free to enjoy without a subscription. We also offer ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more for just $11.99/month.


ratings:
Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

 
Microservices (Explained by Example)
Microservices technology is a new pattern of software engineering that has been popularized recently. In this video we will explain what microservices are, their pros and cons by example. 
A lot of companies have moved in the early 2010 such as twitter and netflex to the microservices architecture. 
Microservices technology is a pattern where you can break down big application into smaller services and what previously is a function call is now a network call GET or POST through HTTP.
In order to explain what microservices are, we need to explain how a traditional classical application looks like. Here is an example ..
Instagram  
View Picture, list comments, likes and Picture and Location. 
Picture
Likes
Comments
Picture API (Thumbnails) 
Likes API 
Comments API Most popular comments
Pros:
Polyglot architecture 
Easy scaling for microservices that needs scaling. 
Better Team management, each microservice is a team
Easier to innovate certain areas.
Each microservice can pick their own database 
Scale busy services instead of entire system 
Cons:
Very complicated to implement, network call, service discovery 
Very Difficult to debug
Hard to find where the fault is 
Network calls fails adds complexity.
5:00
6:50 proxy vs reverse 
Released:
Mar 16, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr ?‍? Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses