Functional Microservices with Rachel Reese

.NET Rocks!

• Episode: Functional Microservices with Rachel Reese
• Website: .NET Rocks!
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• Duration: 00:47:00
• Published: 2016-01-06 05:00

Microservices built with a functional language? You bet! Carl and Richard talk to Rachel Reese about her work with jet.com building microservices in F#. It turns out that the good practices of building functional code lend themselves neatly to the same principles in microservices. Rachel also talks about the actor model as a natural fit for this architecture as well, writing code with simple entry and exit points as functions in F#, focusing on composability to relate elements together. There are lots of ways to build microservices, but the functional/actor approach makes things easier once you've gotten your head around it - check it out!