Discovering RESTful Web Microservices: A Traveler's Guide

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Claim: applying REST and Web hyperlink principles delivers discoverable, loosely coupled microservices that scale. Demonstrates a mapping approach (Swagger/Swagger Hub) and three concrete service types: Stateless, Persistence, Aggregator. Shows resilience patterns implemented in code: circuit breaker, bulkhead, fail fast, plus health checks, timeouts, CQRS and saga compensation for writes. Cites real practices — Netflix chaos tooling, Amazon’s eventual consistency and sagas, Etsy’s 30–40 daily releases — and reports travel research (about 40 weeks on the road) that informs the examples.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 4:26A few years ago, in a slide deck far away...
3. 9:56REpresentational State Transfer (REST)
4. 11:07Microservice Characteristics
5. 13:25Unix Operating Principles (1978)
6. 20:25Fallacies of Distributed Computing (1994)
7. 21:31Programming the Network
8. 24:17Nygard Stability Patterns
9. 29:02Stateless Microservices
10. 33:46Persistence Microservices
11. 38:41Aggregator Microservices
12. 42:51Aim for Interop, not Integration...
13. 44:05Signal, Sign, and Symbol

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