Micro-services: Learning resources.

I am currently working with/researching about micro-services software architecture (or approach to software architecture). There are tons of resources on the web but unfortunately very few of them are academic in nature. I hope that over the next coming months software/academic community will agree to have a standard definition (perhaps following a simple format similar to this one) for this topic as this subject is starting to get hot.

I personally think the name/term "micro-services" can be a bit misleading. Quite a lot of people I have talked to focus more on the word "micro" and not on the principles. I am all for light weight approaches to building software though. For the time being this term is trending and I don't see the term fading away time soon. See the buzz on twitter and youtube your self.

I hope to make this post as a learning resource for people new to micro-services. I will be curating this over a period of time (so don't expect this content to stay static ;). Please send suggestion on twitter @geoaxis or in comments.

Other lists

First of all, there are few other lists on the tubes that I would encourage you to browse
http://www.mattstine.com/microservices

http://capgemini.github.io/architecture/microservices-reality-check/
(Reading list at the end)

Academic Resources

An Emergent Micro-Services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure (Paper, Presentation , Video)

Curation Micro-Services: A Pipeline Metaphor for Repositories (Paper)

Articles (these are in no particular order)

http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html (Lewis/ Fowler: Probably the most quoted article on this subject)

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SacrificialArchitecture.html

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MicroservicePrerequisites.html
http://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-microservices.html

http://microservices.io/ (you know it is a thing when it get a .io domain name ;)

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/28/the-great-microservices-vs-monolithic-apps-twitter-melee.html

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/10/27/microservices-in-production-the-good-the-bad-the-it-works.html

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/09/19/MicroServicesAndJars.html (Uncle Bob)

http://www.giorgiosironi.com/2014/09/microservices-are-not-jars.html (response to Uncle Bob)

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2014/10/microservices.html

http://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-intro

http://service-architecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/microservices-is-soa-for-those-who-know.html

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/09/microservices-shared-libraries

http://java.dzone.com/articles/monolith-vs-microservices

http://www.tomakehurst.com/microservices-and-monoliths-is-there-a-third-way/

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/microservices_for_the_grumpy_neckbeard.html

https://blog.yourkarma.com/building-microservices-at-karma

http://techblog.realestate.com.au/a-microservices-implementation-retrospective/

Presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/michaelneale/microservices-and-functional-programming

Tool specific articles

http://spring.io/blog/2014/09/17/webinar-replay-building-bootiful-microservices-with-spring-boot

https://developer.ibm.com/wasdev/2014/08/27/microservices-liberty-netflixoss/

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2014/09/apache-camel-for-micro%C2%ADservice-architectures.html

Books

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033158.do

Videos

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Micro-Services

http://thoughtworks.wistia.com/medias/gvb1mgw4r3

Following are some videos that I have watched and think are worth watching

 
A whole series of videos explaining micro-services (mostly content for Lewis/Fowler)