Microservices are not what a lot of people think they are, so what are microservices? There are some defining characteristics of microservices that liberate the approach, but which also add some serious challenges to their adoption and use. Designing microservices is not a simple task: when you adopt a microservice architecture, you buy into the challenge of creating independently deployable services. You don’t get to test these things together before release, and if you do test them together first, it isn’t by definition a Microservices approach. This makes them a complex choice.

In this episode Dave Farley, author of the best-selling books Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering, describes what it takes to design and test a variable microservice, and explores the use of contract testing, and loose-coupled interface design, to retain their deployment independence.

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