JuliaCon 2020 (times are in UTC)

This workshop will have three phases:

• General overview of microservices and their architecture; what are the purposes and goals of a microservice; need for web, service, and persistence layers; which layer takes care of which pieces of functionality; how does the object model definitions relate to each layer. Included will be a discussion of why a microservice can be more general purpose and accessible than a script, and how one could move a script computation into the framework of a full microservice.

• How does the rubber meet the road; step-by-step walk-through of building a simple Julia microservice; implementation of object model definitions and packages that help in customizing object representations; implementing web, service, and persistence layers and packages available to aid in layer-to-layer object transfer; how to run the service and writing a simple client to test; quick example of "packaging" the service as a docker container for maximum portability and flexibility

• Advanced topics in building microservices; solutions to common problems like logging, context setting and management, middleware setup, authentication, caching, connection pooling, config management, threaded worker task execution, docker container considerations, and using PackageCompiler.

Every microservice is unique and will always require customization and tooling, but with a set of high quality swiss-army packages and best practices, more time can be focused on domain logic instead of service setup and tooling.