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Waheed ud din
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Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.
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Challenges of micro-services


Nothing comes free. Everything has its downside or at least some challenges that need to deal with. If we go for microservices, it has its own challenges. So, let's look at them and discuss how they can be minimized if there is trade-off.

Infrastructure maintenance

Although you don't have to update your infrastructure every day, it still needs to be maintained and it needs more effort. Technology freedom comes with microservices, but without any cost. You have to maintain different server instances using different technologies. This will need better infrastructure and people with experience of more technologies.

Actually, you don't always need better infrastructure and people with knowledge of all those different technologies. Normally, every team working on different services will have its own infrastructure or Dev-ops-related people. However, in that case, you need more people because now, you are not sharing Dev-ops or infrastructure-related people across different...

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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7
Published in: Sep 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787127746

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Waheed ud din

Haafiz Waheed-ud-din Ahmad has been working in the IT industry since 2008. He has mostly worked in web application development and mostly used PHP at the server side. Although most of his experience is in PHP, he is a technology agnostic person and also likes to learn and adapt to new technologies. He also acts as an adviser for startups and new developers. He has worked on Python and JavaScript as well. He likes to experiment with new technologies, and he has also explored Golang, Scala, and Neo4J. He also has a keen interest in data science and big data domain and has worked on D3.js for data visualization. He is not just a technology enthusiast but also likes to solve day-to-day problems by the usage of technology. You can follow him on twitter at @Haafiz786.
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