Author Spotlight: Thomas Jardinet

So, Thomas, it looks like a lot of your expertise is in microservices, right?

The link between microservices and integration is quite thin. What I usually say is that microservices is integration well done. I have conducted some internal research in my company to understand how we use microservices, and it can be quite an abrupt change for customers to understand that their project can and should be made based on microservices, both the technology structure and the organization. 

What do you see as some of the emergent technologies in the field of microservices that developers should be looking into right now?

As far as new technologies, yes, of course, there are always new technologies, but I would say that the one that I see making an impact is serverless technologies that are becoming closer to and closer to microservices. It's a technology that involves some tricks sometimes, but it's a technology I would advise people to look at because you have some important frameworks being developed. Some microservices frameworks were quite close to serverless capacities, and at the same time, serverless works quite closely to microservices. So it's something I would look at a lot because I think that, in the near future, it will be one technology, meaning that you will have your microservices centralized infrastructure and that will fit most serverless use cases. That's what I would look at more than the new debate on the newest programming language, for example.