Grudging Monkeys and Microservices

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A tiny Clojure/ClojureScript demo implements four monkey behaviors (sucker, cheater, grudger, simulator) to exercise microservice concerns: Docker containers as immutable units, Terraform and Consul for automated deployment and service discovery, GoCD pipelines for CI/CD, Hystrix for circuit breaking, ELK stack and New Relic for monitoring, Mesos/Flocker options for scaling and persistent volumes. Demo shows a monkey dying, the system staying up, and clock resynchronization after resuscitation, arguing that automation cuts operational overhead and that the approach works end-to-end.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:12Ask the architect
3. 9:29The macro picture
4. 10:01How micro is micro?
5. 10:32Immutable deployment units
6. 11:50Beware of hidden complexity
7. 14:36States catch up: CAP 42
8. 16:33Terraform
9. 17:21Immutable infrastructure
10. 19:20Automate everything
11. 20:42Continuous Delivery
12. 21:49Service discovery
13. 26:55Fault tolerance
14. 28:48Auto scaling and scheduling
15. 30:07Persistent storage with Flocker
16. 32:21Monitoring (ELK, New Relic..)
17. 34:41Inspired by

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