Through Microservice Land with Node.js
summary
Describes a company’s migration from a large monolith to microservices starting in 2014, using Node.js as the platform for building lightweight, scalable services and intentionally replacing services that grow too large. Covers practical lessons learned on that journey—pitfalls, dead ends and trade-offs—highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of using Node.js for microservices.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:48Monolith growth challenges
- 13:26Cloud subscriptions shift
- 16:14Microservices design
- 20:14Node.js development
- 25:16JavaScript patterns
- 32:06Dev environment & DevOps
- 38:06Team structure & ownership
- 42:21Microservice testing
- 46:18Service communication
- 51:27Eventual consistency
- 54:24Data consistency issues
- 57:41Documentation solutions
- 1:01:17Deployment & infrastructure
- 1:04:10Logging & monitoring
- 1:07:24Q&A
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