At Magnet.me we’re currently running 40+ self-built services in production. As you’d expect most of these expose some sort of internal API to manage and manipulate the data they’re responsible for. And while microservices give great freedom to backend developers in choosing languages, libraries, and approaches, they should also take…

Let’s go back to 2015 Back in 2015 the microservices hype was really kicking off. Back then Magnet.me consisted of 3 separate services: rest-api : our monolith backend which exposed a RESTful API web-frontier : our user-facing service serving up an AngularJS app oauth : our authentication and authorisation backend The concept of microservices promised…

Microservices are hot, and there are many challenges you’ll face when adopting this way of building software. In this post we’ll tackle the challenge of “configuration”. In particular how to manage the configuration of many different services located in a cluster where services are running in different datacenters, on a…