I’m speaking at the next Brighton Java event on January 7th about ‘microservices for monoliths’. I’ve not started writing the talk yet but, as it’s three weeks away, I need to get started soon.
I work on a monolithic piece of software. Moving to a microservice architecture is some way off but, even now, there are incredibly useful insights and techniques from the microservice world. The methods needed to support hundreds of different servers have spin-offs that can help when you have just one. I also hope to look at how treating your software as a monolith is a dangerous abstraction, as well as giving quick demonstrations of Wiremock and Hystrix.
Also speaking is my colleague Danielle Ashley, expanding a talk she gave as a lightning session at the LJC Openconf about learning Scala: “What happens when you start your first exploration of Scala by picking one of the most unlikely, unsuitable applications for a language of that type – real-time number crunching – and still end up with kind-of-usable functional code?”
Brandwatch are providing pizza and beer. We kick off at 7pm at the Skiff. Sign up if you’d like to join us.