Microservices offer speed and flexibility, but at a price
Microservices are the latest evolution of services-oriented architecture, where an application is built out of many independent pieces all working together, and often deployed in containers.
Benefits include speed to market, lower costs, and greater flexibility — but they also come with their own set of security and management challenges.
Lattice Engines, which offers sales and marketing analytics, is planning ahead with a very deliberate roll out schedule.
“We’re taking our time to build this out,” said Walt Williams, the company’s head of security. “We’re not going to allow just anyone to spin up a new service or process. This is going to be something that is very tightly controlled here at Lattice. There will be some services-on-demand capabilities, but we’re not going to see a spontaneous peak of demand that far exceed our plans, and we’re restricting the use of automation to create new services.”
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