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Challenges adopting microservices

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Challenges adopting microservices

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- [Instructor] Despite the many successes of KinetEco's journey to implementing a microservices architecture, there were several challenges both technical and organizational they faced along the way. First, the research team's initial green fields service did not initially implement versioning. Because of this, as the service was more utilized any breaking change required changes across the clients of all consumers. This coupled the services together in a nasty way. Additionally, the lack of focus on API design from the KinetEco research project led to skepticism from some other engineers, who each went on to implement their own integration standard. This led to a proliferation of standards with too many ways to make and integrate new services. The utilization of Kubernetes as a standard deployment and orchestration platform helped curb the proliferation of these standards. But Kubernetes also caused trouble. Kubernetes, as a new tool to the organization, had to be socialized across…

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