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London Oracle Developer Meet-up – November 18

19 Monday Nov 2018

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Another Oracle Developer Meet-up took place in London yesterday. This meet-up focused on Terraform and Microservices. The summary of the evening slides:

Chris Hollies’ slides can be found at here.  As demo’s aren’t included in the deck, the following videos are alternatives:

Our second session, that I presented on how we can establish paths of transition that make it easy to adopt microservices. The presentation material for this is available here:

Microservices are not simple

08 Tuesday May 2018

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It’s a bit controversial to say ‘Microservices are not simple’ given much is said about using Microservices to simplify and accelerate software delivery. So, how can this statement be made? It is a point actually stated in Chris Richardson’s excellent new book Microservice Patterns (avalable here and here), indirectly in Eric Evan’s Domain Driven Design (here). Martin Fowler in one his blogs says that they come at a premium (here). So, I’m not the first to say this, and wont be the last.

But the assertion that Microservices done right are simpler, and allow rapid delivery and evolution of solutions – a bit of a contradiction. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so take a look at this …

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