Just had a conference today and they talked about micro services. Seems the trend these days is to push a lot of little web api's and then make your products like legos by picking the services you need to complete the project. So literally your app could be made up of 20 different web api's, where each does their very own very specific task. As a developer I like this approach because you can really break the tasks down for your team and keep things very specific and simple to work on. Just better make sure when you change an api you are really careful since it could be used in a hundred different apps.

Meh.

API is just some methods with bunch of parameters, RESTful HTTP stuff.

Looks like a tech journalist with no real technical knowledge got to talk to some bigshot developer at some crowded convention, and the word API got thrown around in the conversation. Having first heard of the word API, this journalist think it's the next big thing. Insert big company names like Google, Intel, HP, and Netflix, API makes it sound like it's a whole new idea that's driving the industry now.

Just had a conference today and they talked about micro services. Seems the trend these days is to push a lot of little web api's and then make your products like legos by picking the services you need to complete the project. So literally your app could be made up of 20 different web api's, where each does their very own very specific task. As a developer I like this approach because you can really break the tasks down for your team and keep things very specific and simple to work on. Just better make sure when you change an api you are really careful since it could be used in a hundred different apps.

Microservices is not a new idea. It's old. It wasn't feasible back in the day because the amount of effort to maintain hundreds of services. For each service, you need a physical machine, sysadmins to maintain the machine, developers to maintain the app, and some deployment process for updates. One service is fine, but when you have hundreds of them, who's going to take care of it all?

Now with virtualization everywhere, Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt scripts for server maintenance and deploys, and recently Docker that can simplify deployment dependencies, the microservices idea resurfaced again. It's not a paradigm shift. It's like dusting off an old keyboard and you realized how awesome those springy keys were.

Just had a conference today and they talked about micro services. Seems the trend these days is to push a lot of little web api's and then make your products like legos by picking the services you need to complete the project. So literally your app could be made up of 20 different web api's, where each does their very own very specific task. As a developer I like this approach because you can really break the tasks down for your team and keep things very specific and simple to work on. Just better make sure when you change an api you are really careful since it could be used in a hundred different apps.

Microservices is not a new idea. It's old. It wasn't feasible back in the day because the amount of effort to maintain hundreds of services. For each service, you need a physical machine, sysadmins to maintain the machine, developers to maintain the app, and some deployment process for updates. One service is fine, but when you have hundreds of them, who's going to take care of it all?

Now with virtualization everywhere, Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt scripts for server maintenance and deploys, and recently Docker that can simplify deployment dependencies, the microservices idea resurfaced again. It's not a paradigm shift. It's like dusting off an old keyboard and you realized how awesome those springy keys were.

Didn't say it was new, just said it's the recent trend. Although if an idea was thought of before but couldn't be implemented then when it finally is implemented it really is new. Otherwise that's like saying if time travel was finally invented you'd go around saying that's nothing new just because we've thought about it before ya know.