Database Integrations for MicroServices

This is a follow up post after seeing Michal Franc’s NDC talk on migrating from Monolithic architectures. One point raised was that Database Integration points are a terrible idea - and I wholeheartedly agree. However, there can be a number of situations where a Database Integration is the best or only way to achieve the end goal. This can be either technical; say a tool does not support API querying (looking at you SSRS), or cultural; the other team either don’t have the willingness, time, or power to learn how to query an API....

June 9, 2016 · 3 min