Digital Transformation from Monoliths to Microservices to Serverless and Beyond

Opportunities and Ramifications for Digital Transformation

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If you are a developer or an architect, you've likely been building traditional 3-tier systems, commonly known as “monoliths", for some time. Recently, we've seen a significant evolutionary shift to systems composed of “microservices", which are isolated, decoupled services that [should] possess their own data and are deployed and scaled independently.

Today we are witnessing the birth of "serverless", a.k.a. Function as a Service (FaaS). The rate of evolutionary change is accelerating. But what is changing, and what remains the same? How do we work with state, data consistency, system architecture, and observability in this ephemeral world of serverless functions?

In this highly-visual presentation by Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate at Lightbend, to learn more about the ramifications and opportunities along the evolution from monolithic systems, to microservices architectures, to serverless (FaaS).

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More From Hugh McKee

Hugh McKee is the creator of many resources, including eBooks, white papers, blogs, and videos. Check out some of his top ranked content here: 

• Why Akka? Two short videos: Why I Love Akka
• Free O'Reilly eBook: Designing Reactive Systems: The Role Of Actors In Distributed Architecture
• Blog series: Check out Hugh's 3-part exploration of how message delivery works in distributed systems, featuring Part 1: At Most Once, Part 2: At Least Once, and Part 3: Exactly Once.

If you want to more forward more quickly with Lightbend technologies, you request a demo with us. 

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Oliver White

Director of Developer Marketing, Lightbend, Inc.

Twitter: @eOliverWhite

Oliver has been helping startups and enterprises tell their technology stories since 2007. As Chief Storyteller at Lightbend, Oliver has dedicated much of his time to creating educational content and building community awareness around Reactive system architecture and tooling. Oliver is a co-founder of Virtual JUG, the creator of the ZeroTurnaround (acquired by Perforce) content brand RebelLabs, and, somewhat unexpectedly, the coiner of the phrase “SMACK Stack”.