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Podcast · 05 April 2022 · 1 min read

Beyond the Hype - Do you actually need a microfrontend?

Colin Eberhardt , Sam Hogarth , Dean Kerr

A relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, micro-frontends are an extension of the popular microservices pattern where the vertical slice of functionality that a microservice provides is extended all the way to the front-end. With micro-frontends, you can more easily scale your development teams by composing applications from loosely coupled frontend components.

In this month’s episode, Colin is joined by Dean Kerr (Lead Developer, Scott Logic) and Sam Hogarth (Senior Software Engineer, Tesco Bank) to compare thoughts and experiences gained from many years of front-end development.

Links from the podcast:

Micro Frontends — Spotify Approach Iframes - Mostafa Biomee
Microservice Websites - Gustaf Nilsson Kotte
Webpack Module Federation
Sites vs. Apps defined: the Documents-to-Applications Continuum - Aral Balkan
You probably don’t need a micro-frontend - Colin Eberhardt, Dean Kerr, Sam Hograth, Robat Williams, Chris Price, Chris Kurzeja

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You probably don’t need a micro-frontend

Micro-frontends is a relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, which as the name suggests, is an extension of the popular microservices pattern. In this blog post I argue that this is a pattern you might not need!

Colin Eberhardt · 17^th Feb 2021 · 6 min read

Beyond the Hype - Microservices: are they the only architecture you need?

Microservices have become the standard architectural pattern for everything. It’s a great and versatile pattern, but what people rarely talk about is the cost. You didn’t think you got all that good stuff (polyglot, scalable, decoupled...) for free, did you? In this episode, we talk about the real-world impact of choosing this pattern and when it might not be the right choice.

Colin Eberhardt, Ian Sugar, Harry Bellamy · 8^th Mar 2022 · 1 min read

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Colin Eberhardt

I am CTO at Scott Logic and am a prolific technical author, blogger and speaker on a range of technologies.

My blog includes posts on a wide range of topics, including WebAssembly, HTML5 / JavaScript and data visualisation with D3 and d3fc. You'll also find a whole host of posts about previous technology interests including iOS, Swift, WPF and Silverlight.

I'm board member of FINOS, which is encouraging open source collaboration in the financial sector. I'm also very active on GitHub, contributing to a number of different projects.

Sam Hogarth

Sam enjoys working across the technology stack, he is passionate about building systems that deliver high value, incorporating new ideas, improving productivity and communicating with the developer community. He is interested in patterns and process within the changing world of software engineering. In his spare time, he can run a fine game of Dungeons and Dragons!

Dean Kerr

I'm a full-stack web developer, with an interest in anything and everything that's new in web technology!

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