The Infoq Podcast

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Chris Richardson, a developer, architect, Java Champion and author of POJOs in Action. Before his workshop on Microservices w/ Spring Boot and Docker at QCon San Francisco 2016, Richardson took time to discuss his ideas on how to use DDD and CQRS concepts as a guide for implementing a robust microservices architecture. Why listen to this podcast: - "Microservice architecture" is a better term than "microservices". The latter suggests that a single microservice is somehow interesting - The concepts discussed in Domain-Driven Design are an excellent guide for how to implement a microservices architecture - Bounded Contexts correspond well to individual microservices - Event sourcing and CQRS provide patterns for how to implement loosely coupled services - When converting a monolith to microservices, avoid a big bang rewrite, in favor of an iterative approach Notes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/2hZ8TM1 11m:51s - Microservices must be loosely c