Microservices “saved our butts” every day, said https://www.linkedin.com/in/heath-murphy-pmp-mcsd-39960542/, director of consulting services at the IT consultancy CGI. He shared his experience at CodePaLOUsa, a regional development conference held this month in Louisville, Ky.

Services are “small in size, messaging-enabled, bounded by contexts, autonomously developed, independently deployable, decentralized, and built and released with automated processes.”

The microservices architecture did not use containers, MongoDB or a similar big data solution, or even the cloud.

Whereas logging is straightforward and sequential in a monolithic app, in a microservices architecture the log happens in dozens of processes and modules.

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