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Podcast · 08 March 2022 · 1 min read

Beyond the Hype - Microservices: are they the only architecture you need?

Colin Eberhardt, Ian Sugar , Harry Bellamy

Beyond the Hype is a new monthly podcast from the Scott Logic team, where we cast a practical eye over what is new and exciting in technology – everything from Kafka to Kubernetes, AI to APIs, microservices to micro-frontends. We look beyond the promises, the buzz and excitement to guide you towards the genuine value.

Microservices have become the standard architectural pattern for everything. It’s a great and versatile pattern, but what people rarely talk about is the cost. You didn’t think you got all that good stuff (polyglot, scalable, decoupled…) for free, did you? In this episode, we talk about the real-world impact of choosing this pattern and when it might not be the right choice.

Links from the podcast:

Microservices for Life - Ian Sugar
Code reuse in microservices architecture - with Spring Boot - Bartosz Jedrzejewski
Designing Microservice architectures the right way - Michael Bryzek
When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!) - Sam Newman & Martin Fowler

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Beyond the Hype - Coming soon from Scott Logic

Beyond the Hype is a brand new monthly podcast from the Scott Logic team, where we cast a practical eye over what is new and exciting in technology – everything from Kafka to Kubernetes, AI to APIs, microservices to micro-frontends. We look beyond the promises, the buzz and excitement to guide you towards the genuine value.

Colin Eberhardt · 28^th Feb 2022 · 1 min read

Beyond the Hype - Do you actually need a microfrontend?

A relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, micro-frontends are an extension of the popular microservices pattern where the vertical slice of functionality that a microservice provides is extended all the way to the front-end. With micro-frontends, you can more easily scale your development teams by composing applications from loosely coupled frontend components. In this podcast we ask the question 'Do you actually need a micro-frontend?'

Colin Eberhardt, Sam Hogarth, Dean Kerr · 5^th Apr 2022 · 1 min read

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Colin Eberhardt

I am CTO at Scott Logic and am a prolific technical author, blogger and speaker on a range of technologies.

My blog includes posts on a wide range of topics, including WebAssembly, HTML5 / JavaScript and data visualisation with D3 and d3fc. You'll also find a whole host of posts about previous technology interests including iOS, Swift, WPF and Silverlight.

I'm board member of FINOS, which is encouraging open source collaboration in the financial sector. I'm also very active on GitHub, contributing to a number of different projects.

Ian Sugar

I'm a Technical Principal at Scott Logic in Bristol with particular interest in data engineering, cloud architecture, microservices and functional programming. Especially Clojure! I'm also interested in software engineering culture and how to make fun equal productive.

Harry Bellamy

I am a Lead Developer at Scott Logic.

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