Booklet

Microservices for Modern Commerce

by Kelly Goetsch, commercetools Advisor

About the Booklet

The building blocks for your business success

Microservices are the building blocks for hundreds of user interfaces (UIs) for industry giants, such as Amazon and Netflix. Setting up a network of these services allows for agile development, shorter release cycles and faster time to market, making it a critical component of microservices for modern commerce. It’s a blueprint for success your company cannot ignore.

This booklet offers detailed information on how to connect microservices together to enable a seamless digital experience. From providing a unified shopping experience across channels to enabling you to introduce new features to the market within days or even hours, author Kelly Goetsch will walk you through every advantage of microservices and explain microservices principles. Learn how adopting microservices architecture empowers your digital business by enhancing flexibility, scalability and responsiveness.

What’s inside

  • Where microservices came from.
  • The guiding technical and non-technical principles of microservices.
  • The inner architecture of individual microservices.
  • The outer architecture of how to connect together dozens, hundreds or even thousands of microservices.
  • How to incrementally adopt the architecture to reap all the benefits of microservices.
Unlock the power of microservices for modern commerce. This booklet explains the benefits, principles and implementation strategies, helping you understand how to adopt microservices and optimize digital experiences.
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About the Speakers

Kelly Goetsch
commercetools Advisor

Kelly Goetsch, is the former Chief Strategy Officer at commercetools, now commercetools Advisor. He came to commercetools from Oracle, where he led product management for their microservices initiatives. Before that, he was an architect with ATG.

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