Nicolas Fränkel

Biography

Developer Advocate with 15+ years of experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail, and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also, double as a trainer and triple as a book author.

Talk

Chopping the Monolith

Microservices are ubiquitous. However, most companies that implement microservices do not reap their full benefits – at best. At worst, it’s an epic failure.

There are reasons for microservices: independent deployment of business capabilities. However, the unspoken assumption is that you need to deploy all capabilities all the time. My experience has shown me that it’s plain wrong. Some capabilities need frequent deployment, while some are much more stable. In “the past”, we used Rule Engines to allow updating business rules without deployment. While it solved the problem, this approach had issues. Between introducing a Rule Engine and migrating your complete system to microservices, Nicolas believes that there’s a middle path, and that this path is Function-as-a-Service.

In this talk, Nicolas will detail every point he has made above, and show how one can use Serverless to pragmatically design a system that allows deploying as often as you need.

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