#micro-services

Comment gagner de l’argent sur le net entant qu’entrepreneur numérique?

Vous vous souvenez qu’il y a quelques jours j’ai écrit un post sur comment gagner de l’argent en ligne avec le site Fiverr, la plateforme en anglais de mise en relation ? Si vous ne l’avez pas encore lu, je vous invite à le faire maintenant. Comme je viens de le dire, sur cette plateforme, la communication est entièrement en anglais. Mais cela ne devrait pas vous inquiéter si vous avez un minimum…

Surge in adoption of application container technology, increase in implementation of micro-services, and rise in popularity of open-source container orchestration platforms drive the growth of the global container orchestration market. On the other hand, lack of cloud architect skills required for operating the container orchestration tools impedes the growth to some extent. Nevertheless, usage of container orchestration for IoT devices and rise in investment in application container technology are expected to create a number of opportunities for the frontrunners in the industry.

The global container orchestration industry was estimated at $332.7 million in 2018, and is expected to reach $1.38 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 17.2% from 2019 to 2026.

Future Design - Micro-Service Apps

Masterclass in rapid concept development for an emerging practice in UX and UI design - Micro-Service Mobile Apps.

What is a Micro-Service App?

It is a small mobile application that serves a very specific need (specific demographic)

It should take 3 - 6 months to develop (a feasible scope, experimental and low risk)

It should be re-skinable (a feasible business model for ongoing app development and publication)

Best Practice? 

‘Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Download now and start helping blind people see.’ http://www.bemyeyes.org/

‘casual micro-volunteering’ Hans Jorgen Wiberg, app inventor http://www.bemyeyes.org/press/

Masterclass Group Exercise

Design Scenario (problem): How to find a replacement band member in a hurry! (For today, we are a rock band seeking a drummer for a gig scheduled in 12 days)

Concept Development Process (Phase 1)

Map the context (people, places, things)

Map the system of user experience

Identify an intervention in a user experience

Diagram a UX design solution

Sketch UI examples

Repeat 4 and 5 until you refine the concept and solution

(todays masterclass images above)

Next Week: 

Rapid Paper prototyping (Phase 2):

In the next Masterclass, we will refine our UI designs by creating paper prototypes for user testing! See what happened here

Huge thanks for the kind folk of NearForm and Engine Yard Dublin for hosting the inaugural Micro-Services Dublin meet-up yesterday. I took the opportunity to build on earlier work from Yoni Goldberg and my colleagues in Dublin on how Gilt has adopted micro-services in the last two years: the micro-services architecture and philosophy has solved some hard problems for us, but has created new and fun challenges and it was great to share with the community at large. NearForm's CTO Richard Rodger borrowed some ideas Leslie Lamport on how best to monitor the inherent distributed complexity of micro-services architectures by seeking and monitoring the invariants in the system - this resonates hugely with what we're doing with the soon-to-be-open-sourced CAVE project. His talk is minimal, fun and way, way smarter than mine and you should definitely look him up. Finally, it was a huge pleasure to meet up with Fred George, a veteran industry player and speaker, who fleshed out some of the key attributes and challenges of micro-services architectures, advocating a strong preference for asynchronous services and a strong 1:1 ownership of services and their data stores. Beguiled by tales of 14-line services, I have a strong hankering to go learn some Clojure now :). 

All slides from the show will be up shortly on the Microservices Dublin website; in the meantime, I'm including a link to mine below. All at the Gilt Dublin office are looking forward to hosting the next meet-up in March 2015!