Microservices
Building Resilient Microservices from the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Microservices are the latest hot trend in software architecture – and with good reason. They create a path to Continuous Deployment in cloud-native environments, giving organizations increased business velocity and flexibility. However, that speed can lead engineers to focus too much on the business features they are more easily churning out and forget that their new highly distributed system could in fact be more prone to failures than would a similarly-scoped monolith. This is because resilience is an oft-overlooked concern in microservices development. A wish to make systems more resilient was at the heart of the “Fallacies of Distributed Computing”, originally penned by L Peter Deutsch in 1994 when he was at Sun Microsystems, and augmented by a few others since then. The fallacies read as follows: The network is reliable.
