This session is about the hard stuff -- managing data in microservices -- and about sharing proven patterns that have been successful at Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix. It begins with a quick tour of some prerequisites for being successful with microservices -- an organization of small teams with well-defined areas of responsibility; processes for test-driven development and continuous delivery; and a DevOps culture of "You Build It, You Run It."

The majority of the session is spent on managing data. It covers the need to isolate a microservice's data store behind the service interface, as well as the various persistence mechanisms for managing data. It discusses using events as a first-class tool in our architectural toolbox. It covers techniques for service extraction from a monolithic database. Then it composes those building blocks to build up patterns for handling shared data, joins, and transactions in a microservice world.

It concludes with lessons learned, as well as suggestions for how you can implement these ideas successfully in your own organization.

Microservices almost seem to be the de facto way to build systems today, but are they always the answer? If they are the answer, what are the challenges you'll face at scale (both from a technical and organizational level)? What are the strategies you should use now that you are effectively building a distributed system? ...or what's the one thing you wish you'd known before you got here?

These questions and more will be asked in the Microservices: Pattern's & Practices Ask Me Anything or AMA (a significant portion of the time will be available for the audience to get their questions answered as well). This session joins together many of the conference's most popular sessions speakers with the trackhost from the Microservices track to have a frank and honest discussion on Microservices.

Join us to have your Microservices questions answered.