In the panel discussion at the recent Event-Driven Microservices Conference in Amsterdam, Frans van Buul from AxonIQ, the conference organizer, started by noting that microservices are quite mainstream today. He wanted to look back at what we have learned, but also think about where we will be heading in the next couple of years.
In the panel discussion at the recent Event-Driven Microservices Conference in Amsterdam, Frans van Buul from AxonIQ, the conference organizer, started by noting that if you look at a popularity graph, the adoption of microservices really took off at June 2014, and since then it has increased substantially. Since microservices are quite mainstream today, he asked the panel to look back at what we have learned, but to also think about where we will be heading in the next couple of years.
The panel consisted of Michael Kazarian, Promontech, Prem Chandrasekaran, Barclays, Bert Jan Schrijver, Open Value, Allard Buijze, AxonIQ and David Caron, Pivotal. Van Buul’s first question was why we should use microservices.
A question van Buul sometimes struggles with, is why we were doing SOA with small service for 10 years, but suddenly found out that it was really bad, and that now we should be doing microservices. Why is that?
Van Buul then asked about the prerequisites for doing microservices: what kind of skills and organization do you need?
In his last question, van Buul looked into the future. What is missing, what will we be talking about next year?
Finallz, Buijze noted that AxonIQ is focused on simplifying at the application level to allow developers to focus on business capabilities. The most difficult part is the people; how you actually build the right thing, making software development more of a people thing since the technology will be there.
