Microtizing Monoliths: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Node JS | Linux Today

Microtizing Monoliths: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Node JS

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 6, 2015

Your application has been chugging along nicely when suddenly it grinds to a halt, again! After debugging thousands of lines of code you finally found the one tiny piece that caused it, but you have to reinitialize your whole service to fix it. How can you avoid this painful process every time your application inevitably breaks? By smashing it into pieces, and then letting each piece do its own thing! Thus your monolithic application becomes a series of interchangeable and easily manageable microservices.

Learn how to convert your monolithic application into a series of flexible microservices using Docker and Nodejs via Shippable.com.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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