Microservices in the Real World

January 27, 2016

InfoQ did an interview with our colleagues Alexander Heusingfeld and Tammo van Lessen about getting people from operations involved in architecture and dealing with “us vs. them” behavior when applying DevOps. They also talked about what the Self-Contained Systems approach is and how it can be used to modernize software systems, similarities and differences between the Self-Contained Systems approach and microservices, improving deployment pipelines and using measurements in deployment, and about their experiences with a “getting out of your comfort zone” program.

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Alexander Heusingfeld Alumnus

Until April 2018, Alexander Heusingfeld worked as a senior consultant for software architecture and engineering at INNOQ in Germany. As a consultant, software architect and developer he supported customers with his long-term knowings of Java and JVM-based systems. Most often he is involved in the design, evaluation and implementation of architectures for modern web-applications and microservices in software modernization projects. His current focus is on team organization and software evolution.

He loves to contribute to OpenSource projects, speaks at IT conferences and Java User Groups and occasionally blogs at goldstift.de.

Tammo van Lessen Principal Consultant

Tammo van Lessen is a Principal Consultant with INNOQ. He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation. He co-authored a German book on WS-BPEL and was a member of OMG’s BPMN 2.0 Finalization Task Force. He published several academic and non-academic articles on Web services & business process execution and has a weakness for rightsized software architectures, Microservices, DevOps and modern monitoring tooling. He is a regular speaker on national and international conferences.