Microservices: Avoiding Dumb Pipes By @TheEbizWizard | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

One of the hottest new terms in the world of enterprise computing is the microservice. Starting with the seminal 2014 article by James Lewis and Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks, microservices have taken on a life of their own – and as with any other overhyped term, they have generated their fair share of confusion as well. Lewis and Fowler specifically focus on the microservice architectural style, which they define as “an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API.”

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