Recently I was interviewed by Ralph Winzinger of InfoQ on the subject of building antifragile software with microservices, the main aim of the interview being to demystify these two concepts as much as possible.

During the interview I covered the following:

• Putting antifragility in the context of software systems.
• How antifragile systems can be constructed from a variety of components/services that may be fragile/robust in nature.
• The relationship between microservices and antifragility.
• Why size of a microservice is not the important thing.
• Technologies, tools and platforms that support microservices well, and those that go further to encompass antifragility.
• The relationship between antifragility and building software that adapts and is therefore agile.
• How simplicity is a key principle of a microservices architecture.
• Approaches to transforming legacy, possibly monolithic, systems towards microservices and antifragility.

The full interview has now been published on InfoQ.

Douglas Squirrel, confirmed speaker for this year's inaugural µCon conference in London, will be giving an early teaser into his insights into building microservice-based architectures in a free evening talk on June 17th at Skills Matter.

At the same time I'll be in Poland at Ace! Conference so I won't be able to make it in person, but I hope you can make it as Douglas' talk looks very interesting and a great follow-on from my initial London Microservices Meetup the week before.