If IT today has a watchword, that word is “speed.” At the same time, IT is expected to protect the organization’s crown jewels (company finances and private customer records) and to keep services available and responsive. The message: Go faster, but don’t break anything important. Even Facebook has modified its motto on this front from “Move fast and break things” to “Move fast with stable infrastructure.”
In response to these pressures, enterprise IT teams are increasingly adopting the techniques in use at cutting-edge web-scale companies like Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Facebook, characterized as microservices.
