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No Microservice Is an Island

You worked at Capital One first and then switched over to Square. So what were you working on at Capital One?

At Capital One, I was working on the first layer of services that our mobile app and website hit. Any new mobile or web request would first reach the service owned by my team.  This service implemented security and customisation logic and then made a server request to the broader Capital one ecosystem. Capital One has a lot of microservices. QCon: And what do you work on now at Square?

Was the stack you worked on at Capital One JVM based or Node?

There were a lot of people at Capital One who worked on Java, but I was working on Node there. At Square I am working on a ruby on rails monolith and we are working towards a microservices based architecture.