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24 alternatives to The New Builders - 8: The Third Way In The Monolith Vs. Microservices Debate

Monoliths and microservices

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The New Builders - 8: The Third Way In The Monolith Vs. Microservices Debate launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
a16z Podcast: How Microservices Change the Future▲63
Incremental change may be good theory...
2016 · its alternatives →
2
goa▲115
A design driven approach for building microservices in Go
2016 · goa.design · its alternatives →
3SM
Serverless meets Microservices▲191
2016 · blog.leveros.com · its alternatives →
4WI
What I learnt refactoring a monolith into microservices▲5
2021 · blog.tarkalabs.com · its alternatives →
5
Microcosm▲72
A modern forum platform
2014 · its alternatives →
6
Hello Tech Pros: Has Software Development Shifted From the Construction Paradigms?▲60
Dmitri Saveliev of ServiceWhale
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
7
SaaS Success with Microservices▲180
Free guide: building high-growth SaaS applications
2023 · hypertest.co · its alternatives →
8
Lumber▲232
The admin microservice generator
2016 · lumberjs.com · its alternatives →
9
Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework▲115
I can't tell if HN is the right kind of place for this stuff anymore since people are so advanced in their use but I thought it was interesting to leverage my existing Go microservices framework and turn it into the core of what would provide tools for an agent cli or whatever beyond that. Extensibility is key. Thought I'd share and get a conversation going.
2020 · go-micro.dev · its alternatives →
10
From monolith to microservices (ebook)▲23
Free ebook in PDF, EPUB, MOBI
2020 · blocshop.io · its alternatives →
11
To Be Continuous - 12: The clash in OSS economics▲53
Developers want $$ but everyone else wants free software...
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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Monolithization. Build Microservices – Deploy Monolith▲7
Monolithization of microservices in Oat++ Web Framework.
2019 · oatpp.io · its alternatives →
13
CodersTrust▲81
Microfinance for talents
2015 · its alternatives →
14AI
An Introduction to Microservices▲8
2021 · medium.com · its alternatives →
15
Microservices with Kubernetes▲6
Non-Programmer’s Handbook
2018 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Microlancer▲61
A community of handpicked designers & developers.
2014 · its alternatives →
17
FreeLunch CI▲4
Microservices in the cloud
2016 · its alternatives →
18
How Teams Get Microservices Wrong From the Start▲6
There’s a lot of ambiguity about what microservices are.
2017 · buttercms.com · its alternatives →
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Istio▲76
Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices
2017 · istio.io · its alternatives →
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Enterprise Should Suck Less- 15: Easing the pain of IoT Developers ▲61
Interview about IoT platform & Thing Query Language for devs
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Software Engineering Daily — The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson▲67
DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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ESSL- 8: Carol Leaman▲52
On making enterprise suck less.
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Software Daily - 10 Philosophies for Engineers▲71
Strategies and reflections on software engineering
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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Book: Microservices Architecture for eCommerce▲10
Microservices Architecture for eCommerce
2017 · its alternatives →

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