Natalie Lambert, VP marketing, Sapho

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Micro services: Breaking down software monoliths

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Amazon was the first company to take a large monolithic system and deconstruct it into micro services. Netflix was next, deconstructing its behemoth software stack, seeking a more agile model that could keep up with 2 million daily API requests from more than 800 different device types. Forward-thinking companies like Google, eBay, Uber and Groupon soon followed. Today, enterprises are abandoning monolithic software architectures to usher in the latest era in systems architecture: micro services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Micro services: Breaking down software monoliths

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

Amazon was the first company to take a large monolithic system and deconstruct it into micro services. Netflix was next, deconstructing its behemoth software stack, seeking a more agile model that could keep up with 2 million daily API requests from more than 800 different device types. Forward-thinking companies like Google, eBay, Uber and Groupon soon followed. Today, enterprises are abandoning monolithic software architectures to usher in the latest era in systems architecture: micro services.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here