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Published inNov 2018
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Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Pethuru Raj Chelliah

 Pethuru Raj Chelliah (PhD) works as the chief architect at the Site Reliability Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. Previously, he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, IBM India, Bangalore, for four years. He also had an extended stint as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture consultant in Wipro Consulting services division and as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has more than 17 years of IT industry experience.
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Shreyash Naithani
Shreyash Naithani
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Shreyash Naithani

Shreyash Naithani is currently a site reliability engineer at Microsoft R&D. Prior to Microsoft, he worked with both start-ups and mid-level companies. He completed his PG Diploma from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bengaluru, India, and is a computer science graduate from Punjab Technical University, India. In a short span of time, he has had the opportunity to work as a DevOps engineer with Python/C#, and as a tools developer, site/service reliability engineer, and Unix system administrator. During his leisure time, he loves to travel and binge watch series.
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Shailender Singh
Shailender Singh
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Shailender Singh

Shailender Singh is a principal site reliability engineer and a solution architect with around 11 year's IT experience who holds two master's degrees in IT and computer application. He has worked as a C developer on the Linux platform. He had exposure to almost all infrastructure technologies from hybrid to cloud-hosted environments. In the past, he has worked with companies including Mckinsey, HP, HCL, Revionics and Avalara and these days he tends to use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, and OpenShift.
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Important facts about microservices


Let's take a look at the following facts, which can give us a clearer picture of microservices.

Microservices in the current market

There are multiple reasons why, at this moment, people are starting to focus more on microservices architecture than monolithic architecture and even service-oriented architecture (SOA). This is because microservices have the following advantages:

  • The ability to respond to change quickly
  • Domain-driven design
  • The availability of automated test tools
  • The availability of release and deployment tools
  • The availability of on-demand hosting technology
  • The availability of on-line cloud services
  • The ability to embrace new technology
  • Reliability
  • The availability of asynchronous communication technology
  • The availability of simpler server-side and client-side technology

When to stop designing microservices

Designing microservices can often feel more like an art than a science. There is lots of general advice available in the domain, but at times this...

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Pethuru Raj Chelliah

 Pethuru Raj Chelliah (PhD) works as the chief architect at the Site Reliability Engineering Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. Previously, he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, IBM India, Bangalore, for four years. He also had an extended stint as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture consultant in Wipro Consulting services division and as a lead architect in the corporate research division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has more than 17 years of IT industry experience.
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Shreyash Naithani

Shreyash Naithani is currently a site reliability engineer at Microsoft R&D. Prior to Microsoft, he worked with both start-ups and mid-level companies. He completed his PG Diploma from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bengaluru, India, and is a computer science graduate from Punjab Technical University, India. In a short span of time, he has had the opportunity to work as a DevOps engineer with Python/C#, and as a tools developer, site/service reliability engineer, and Unix system administrator. During his leisure time, he loves to travel and binge watch series.
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Shailender Singh

Shailender Singh is a principal site reliability engineer and a solution architect with around 11 year's IT experience who holds two master's degrees in IT and computer application. He has worked as a C developer on the Linux platform. He had exposure to almost all infrastructure technologies from hybrid to cloud-hosted environments. In the past, he has worked with companies including Mckinsey, HP, HCL, Revionics and Avalara and these days he tends to use AWS, K8s, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, and OpenShift.
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