The beauty of micro services is that they are incredibly easy to create, deploy and share.
As I wrote previously in TechCrunch, the unique combination of micro flows, micro apps and micro services is enabling a new architecture I call the "micro wave" architecture.
eCommerce was a natural fit, especially since the company owns Hybris, but building the product using micro services was an intentional strategy to make the product transfer more easily to other use cases in the future.
The most common interface to a micro service is the well-known and very straightforward JSON/REST/HTTPS paradigm.
This practice has important implications for people with mental illness: access to micro-credit services is very necessary, especially for the rural poor who need the support as they attempt to escape poverty through income generating activities.
While they didn't necessarily have the skill or the will to go to all the way to micro services, they were looking for a way to take advantage of the higher level benefits of containerization including portability, efficiency and security, COO Scott Johnston told TechCrunch.
WeChat's micro-lending and customer relationship management (CRM) services are testaments to corporate experimentation and economic dynamism.
Turns out roughly half the tweets posted on the micro-sharing service are in English, down 25% from last year, even though the company is based in the U.S. and has more users and momentum in English-speaking countries than anywhere else on the planet.
News of Facebook's offer comes in the wake of Twitter's IPO last week, in which has the micro-blogging service was valued at about $25bn.
GigaOm, citing multiple, undisclosed sources, reports that the micro-blogging service is at the center of a bidding war as firms jockey to take part in its latest funding round.
