Compositional UIs - the Microservices Last Mile

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Argues that the “last mile” of microservices is the UI and gives concrete composition patterns: compose in the browser with webpack/NPM components for independent widgets; compose on the server using model-side aggregators or ASP.NET Core view components with resilient calls (use Poly for resiliency); or prebuild a tailored read model via Elasticsearch denormalizers fed by API pulls, file drops or messaging. Advises minimal composition, larger capability-oriented boundaries, and defensive handling of latency and failures.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:55What is a Microservice
3. 3:08Autonomy
4. 4:39Microservices
5. 6:08Conways Law
6. 7:07Service Boundaries
7. 7:57Integration Books
8. 8:27Compositional UIs
9. 9:20Selfridges
10. 11:57Last Mile Problem
11. 12:40The Most Important Part
12. 13:09Single coherent user interface
13. 13:48Composite applications
14. 15:21The user experience
15. 19:02Frontend technology
16. 24:19Boundaries
17. 27:01Serverside Composition
18. 28:24Invisible Product Details
19. 31:09Resiliency
20. 36:59View Components
21. 42:24Search
22. 46:09Data Duplication
23. 48:59Backend Integration

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