10 Microservice Architecture and the Enterprise
This chapter covers
- Adding a new business feature in an enterprise technology stack
- Dealing with microservices that overlap with existing systems
- The Service Virtualization Pattern, which hides most microservice calls from the external clients, and allows you to mix and match calls to different microservices and enterprise systems.
- Creating a microservice architecture that can work with an existing enterprise software ecosystem
So, WartMart bought Fantlers, and now Bullwinkle is the CEO of the Fantlers division of WartMart. He is not the CEO of WartMart – that is Mr. Wart. But he does get to keep doing what he loves which is running the best fake Antler store in the world, which is great. And he gets to do it with the resources and top running systems of WartMart. And we get to be the CTO of the Fantler division of WartMart. This is so exciting. Now we get to use all the amazing Tier 1 systems of the top Faux Beauty company in the world.
10.1 A New “Tell-a-Friend” Marketing Plan
Bullwinkle just called me. The Sales and Marketing division of Fantlers wants to do regional sales for our customers, and also give them cash back for “Tell a Friend” or TAF for short. Isn’t it cute - WartMart is filled with acronyms which only insiders understand. It helps to keep the outsiders out. Bullwinkle is learning lots of things from Mr. Wart.
So Bullwinkle asked our Product division to give us some requirements we can start with.