July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
We're always trying to improve how we build software, and since the punched-card era, we have improved a lot, to say the least.
The microservices trend is one improvement that has emerged in the last few years, partially based on companies' willingness to speed up their release cycles. They want to ship new products and new features to their customers as fast as possible. They want to be agile by iterating often, and they want to ship, ship, and ship again.
If thousands, or even millions, of customers use your service, pushing in production an experimental feature, and removing it if it does not work, is considered good practice rather than baking it for months before you publish it.
Companies such as Netflix are ...
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