Ryan Anguiano Dr Microservices, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the API PyCon 2017

"Speaker: Ryan Anguiano
Assuming that you already know how to build a monolithic app, you must be wondering how you can use all this ""microservice"" stuff that you keep hearing about. Well, a good word of advice is that you probably don't need it. If designed properly, a monolithic app should be able to scale and fit the needs of most businesses. Even so, you should keep your development as simple as possible until you have proven and solidified your business concepts. But if you do need to grow to Internet scale, then you have a long road ahead of you.
Moving from a monolithic application to microservices is a natural evolution that is often of necessity. There are several competing schools of thought that are still being battle-tested in these early days of microservice architecture. Among all the competing paradigms, most of the requirements can be agreed upon, but are mostly differentiated by the tools used to fulfill the requirements.
This talk will cover setting up the required infrastructure, and demonstrate how to migrate a sample monolithic Django application into a microservices platform.
The demo application will use the following technologies: Django, Flask, Fabric, Terraform, Ansible, CentOS, Docker, Mesos, Consul, Nginx, Pgbouncer, Kafka
Slides can be found at: speakerdeck.com/pycon2017 and github.com/PyCon/2017-slides"

[@Mike.e]

Very interesting talk thanks Ryan!

[@kevingalloway6460]

It looks to me like the monolithic app he previews at 1:05 isn't actually monolithic... It has multiple apps (contain a models.py and views.py) inside a project , I have been researching this and am new to django - any experienced developers know what makes this monolithic?

[@some84884]

Kevin Galloway the app is monolithic because the webserver runs app through one wsgi, and if the webserver stops serving, then the whole webapp is going down.

[@Sousleek]

I work with similliar Django project. Believe me - it CAN be monolithic despite file layout. It really depends on developers and actual code how "apps"(in django tems) are decoupled or tied together.

[@Sousleek]

Monolithic means that you juct can't disable one application and even start a p[roject without critical blocking errors. You cant place one part or application in different host or different project. This means you project is just monolithic.

[@cadthecoder]

Whoever use Docker + Ansible + Terraform should check out Kubernetes.

[@pahehepaa4182]

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