Geecon 2015
So last month I've attended Geecon and I really loved it. Geecon is a conference focused on Java and JVM technologies, hosted annually in Cracow (usually). Geecon had a Steampunk theme This year’s it was all about microservices, so it’s no surprise that I enjoyed Fred George ’s “Challenges in implementing microservices” the most. In his talk Fred George shared his experiences with replacing monolith applications with microservices. He explained how microservices facilitate a Service Oriented Architecture and “going faster” as shorter reaction time for the whole company. What was most interesting to me was the comparison of asynchronous and synchronous approaches to microservices. He mentioned his friend Chad Fowler suggests synchronous communication on default mainly because it’s easier for most of the modern programmers. In contrast Fred George believes that asynchronous messaging gives so too much of an opportunity for robustness and graceful degradation to ignor...