About Sam Newman’s talk “The Practical Implications Of Microservices” at GeeCON 2014
That always amazes me how much can a talk surprise me with the final outcome given its title.
Just to give you an example.
What would you think of the talk by Sam Newman titled “The Practical Implications Of Microservices” at GeeCON 2014?
And please don’t open the page with the video recording so you don’t even have the slightest idea of the real intent of the talk other than by the title itself.
Give yourself a moment.
Perhaps another.
And what would that be? What could be the final outcome you’d expect? Would you be at all interested in listening to the talk?
When Marcin @marpiec Pieciukiewicz twitted about it I was to it. As a matter of fact, I had other plans for that night, but Marcin convinced me to change them.
I must admit I remember the first 15 minutes as a very boring exercise. I even twitted my wish to forget watching it.
And then, suddenly, the whole lot of tools and books appeared plus Sam’s talk got new life with the way he explained microservices. That was simply brilliant! And very very astonishing. I took notes like crazy. I’m overall pleasantly surprised (yet learnt not much about developing microservices properly that turned out not be the topic of the talk whatsoever — just how to design them right and what tools and books might be of great help).
I highly recommend the talk (without the first 15 minutes obviously!).
The below is a list of take-aways from the talk that’s going to stay with me for some time to review (in the order of appearance):
- logstash and its sources at https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash
- http://logstash.net/
- http://bosun.org/
- https://github.com/graphite-project
- https://collectd.org/
- http://www.nsclient.org/
- http://metrics.dropwizard.io/
- http://www.nagios.org/
- http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/
- http://www.fabfile.org/en/latest/
- http://dropwizard.io/
- https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix
- http://dashing.io/
I’ve been hearing great stories about few of them and Sam has just confirmed their potential usefulness to my projects.
Sam has also offered some guidance on the relevant books one should read to pursue understanding of the topic (again, in the order of appearance):
- http://apigee.com/about/resources/ebooks/web-api-design
- REST in Practice http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805838.do
- https://pragprog.com/book/mnee/release-it
- http://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-Effective-Communication/dp/0596100167
And the last but not least, just at the very end of the talk a brilliant English word came up (since Sam was in a hurry for a train to Warsaw and couldn’t answer other questions):
dash
verb UK /dæʃ/ US
dash verb (MOVE QUICKLY)B2 [I] to go somewhere quickly:
I’ve been dashing around all day.
I must dash — I’ve got to be home by seven.
As a wrap-up Sam pointed out two other presentations of his that are listed at http://lanyrd.com/profile/samnewman/ from this and the past year:
