How to secure Microservices? Lukasz Marchewka at Scalac's Event

The talk was given on Between Business & Tech. Episode 1: The Microservices online event.

How to secure Microservices

The word "Microservices" is an overloaded word in the current Cloud-Native computing era. The concept it brings appears to be very noble: having a decentralized system in which all of the components are loosely-coupled, which gives a lot of autonomy and flexibility to each individual microservice, and, at least theoretically, the light-weight approach should help with the agility of the system as a whole. In reality, however, a lot of things can go wrong with such an approach, especially when the system is not being implemented and executed correctly. This talk discusses the importance of understanding the nature of what Microservices is, and the key points to consider when switching from a "legacy" system (such as SOA) to a Cloud-Native Microservices ecosystem, and what would be needed in order to successfully implement a Microservices system. While there would always be technical challenges when performing any major "paradigm shift" on the system level, of equal importance - if not more - is the need for the organization to be prepared well for the culture shift as well.

Lukasz Marchewka, Consultant at Scalac
Consultant at ScalaC, previously Software Developer for more than 12 years. During his career helped 10+ companies deliver high quality software. His expertise covers architecture, system designs, FP, DDD. Privately, enjoys riding a bicycle.