Recent Posts by Boris Scholl

By Claudio Caldato, Sr. Director Development and Boris Scholl, VP Development - Microservices, Oracle Cloud Introduction  Over the last couple of years our work on various microservices platforms in the cloud has brought us into close collaboration and engagement with many customers and as a result we have developed a deep understanding of what developers struggle with when adopting microservices architectures in addition to a deep knowledge of distributed systems. A major...

It's time to close the loop on Getting Started with Microservices. Part 1 of this series discussed some of the main advantages of microservices, and touched on some areas to consider when working with microservices. Part 2 considered how containers fit into the microservices story. Part 3 looked at some basic patterns and best practices for implementing microservices. In today’s post, we will examine the critical aspects of using DevOps principles and practices with...

Part 1 of this series discussed some of the main advantages of microservices, and touched on some areas to consider when working with microservices. Part 2 considered how containers fit into the microservices story. In today's post we will look at some basic patterns and best practices for implementing microservices. Introduction Design and implementation patterns that can be applied to a microservices-based application vary widely based on the specific scenario of the...

Part 1 of this series discussed some of the main advantages of microservices, and touched on some areas to consider when working with microservices. In this second part we will look into how containers fit into the microservices story. For some developers and architects microservices and containers are still fairly new areas, so there is still some confusion around these two terms in that they sometimes are used interchangeably. Microservices and containers are actually two...

Currently there is not a single discussion about cloud native architectures where the term "microservices" is not brought up. With more and more developers and architects considering leveraging this architectural style, a lot of great content is showing up, but some of this new content misses the point on microservices completely. A good example of the latter is content that suggests one is building microservices just by making the applications package smaller ("micro"). Don't...