“…Throughout the course, Sam demonstrates his Eight Key Principles for doing microservices well: Model Around Your Business Domain: Domain-driven design can help you find stable, reusable boundaries Build a Culture of Automation: More moving parts means automation is key Hide Implementation Details: One of the pitfalls that distributed systems can often fall into is tightly coupling their services together Embrace Decentralization: To achieve autonomy, push power out of the center, organizationally and architecturally Deploy Independently: Perhaps the most important characteristic microservices need Focus on Consumers First: As the creator of an API, make your service easy to consume Isolate Failure: Microservice architecture doesn’t automatically make your systems more stable Make Them Highly Observable: With many moving parts, understanding what is happening in your system can be challenging About the presenter: Sam Newman is the author of Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (O’Reilly Media, 2015). Sam is a technologist at ThoughtWorks, where he divides his time between helping clients globally, and working as an architect for ThoughtWorks' own internal systems. …”