Last week, the excellent Adrian Mouat, Docker captain & author of “Using Docker” gave a webinar on how to use Docker to secure your microservice containers. The webinar was a teaser for a 2 day tr...

On June 28 Docker 17.06 CE was released, which among other improvements adds support for multi-stage image builds. While traditional docker builds had to use a single container for their work and outp...

This is a write up of the excellent webinar on securing microservices given by Sam Newman, author of “Building Microservices” last week. The webinar was a teaser for a new 2-day course from Sam and Ad...

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a hackathon organized by Microsoft with a colleague of mine. The format of this hackathon found us partnering up with developers from Microsoft, in thi...

So here's the thing. Microservices are everywhere right now. You see them mentioned at talks, they have their own conferences, vendors are tripping over themselves to brand their products 'microservic...

As part of my investigation into all things Microservice and Cloud Nativish I’ve been interviewing folk and have bags of interesting case studies and observations to share.

Dilemma 1 - Does Size Matter? A question I often hear asked is “how many microservices should I have?" or “how big should a microservice be?” So, what is better, 10 microservices or 300?

Modern web developers can push to staging or production multiple times a day. Each time this happens, there is a delay while images are distributed to the nodes, especially if the images need to be pu...