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Jorge Santayana is famous for saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. When SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) was all the craze, everyone got all excited about services, but forgot about the data. This ended in disaster. History repeats itself, and here we are with Microservices, where everyone is excited about services, but once again, forgets all about the data. In this hands-on live virtual session I discuss some of the challenges associated with breaking apart monolithic databases, and then show several techniques for sharing and accessing data. I consider the data part of Microservices the hardest aspect of this architecture style. In the end, it's all about the data.

Agenda
  • Breaking Apart Monolithic Data
  • Data Granularity Factors
  • Data Granularity Factors
  • Creating Data Domains
  • Data Sharing and Access: Interservice Communication
  • Data Sharing and Access: Data Replication
  • Data Sharing and Access: Replicated Caching
  • Data Sharing and Access: Data Domains
  • Handing Common Data
  • Hands-on Exercises: Identifying Data Ownership and Access

Mark Richards

About Mark Richards

Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including the recently published Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls, Microservices vs. SOA, the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series, The Enterprise Messaging video series, Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, and contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Mark has a master’s degree in computer science and is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series. He has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.

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