Modern microservices architectures are event-driven, reactive, and choreographed (as opposed to being centrally controlled via an orchestrator). That makes them loosely coupled and easy to change.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Unshackling enterprises from their monolithic applications, one link at a time. The promise of microservices for the enterprise (today) is this: If the parts of an application could be staged ...

Bernd Ruecker is the co-founder and developer advocate of Camunda. Microservices are all the rage. They have an interesting value proposition, which is getting software to market fast while developing ...

Big brands like Amazon and Netflix are embracing microservice architecture, but what is it, and how does it fit into application and software development? The software products we use every day for ...

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The transition from monoliths to microservices isn't easy. One of the big challenges solution architects must address is how to move existing systems into a microservices-oriented architecture without ...

One of the coolest things serverless offerings do is allow you to "mix and match programming languages and frameworks like never before," as Gartner research director Raj Bala has said. This means, as ...