Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. 

Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for microservices, and is the author of the book Microservices Patterns. He provides microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the microservice architecture and is working on his third startup Eventuate, an application platform for developing transactional microservices. 

Show Notes: 

• “For the audience, tell us a little more about yourself” 3:10
• “How did we first meet?”  (5:00)
• “How did you get your start in microservices?” (5:45)
• “What is a microservice?” (10:25)
• “Which microservices patterns do you find the most interesting?” (15:10)
• “What kinds of databases do your customers use?” (18:15)
• “Bootcamp Course”? (29:45)
• “What is Eventuate?” (31:00)
• “What’s new with Eventuate?” (38:00)
• “What are some of the keys to microservices you suggest developers focus on?” (40:15)

 Related Links: 

• Adopt microservices - http://adopt.microservices.io
• Microservices.IO  https://microservices.io/
• Microservices Patterns book, 40% discount at Manning with code ctwredis20 - https://microservices.io/book
• Eventuate, the Distributed data management platform for Microservices - http://eventuate.io
• Articles, consulting, and training - http://chrisrichardson.net