Implementing Modern DevOps

DevOps and microservices

Microservices are a big trend nowadays: small software components that allow companies to manage their systems on vertical slices of functionality, deploying features individually instead of bundling them in a big application, which can be problematic in big teams as the interaction across functionalities often leads to collisions and bugs being released into production without anyone noticing.

An example of quite a successful company using microservices is Spotify. Not only at the technical level but at the business level, they have organized things to be able to orchestrate a large number of services to provide a top class music streaming service that pretty much never fails, and if it does, it is a partial failure: ...