The term “micro-services” seems to be everywhere these days. As I’ve been looking into it deeper, my initial impression of it has changed. Mostly because my first introduction was from someone who knew even less than I did. This caused me to dismiss it originally. My mistake. As I’m learning more, it seems to be a natural extension of some principals I’ve always been a big proponent of, such as CQRS. While not the same, it does follow the principal of breaking up monolithic back ends into smaller units that can be scaled independently.

This is a very vague and generic description, but I’m really just beginning the journey. So far micro-services seem to be closely related to the direction I’ve been pushing my architectures over the last few years. I’m hoping I can leapfrog my own thinking on the topic, and evolve at a faster pace. Exciting times. I’ll post more on the subject as I learn, and have a chance to experiment.

PS: It’s NaBloPoMo time (National Blog Posting Month). I was very unsuccessful the last time I tried to do this. Lets see if I do better this time around.