Richard Rodger

Richard Rodger started coding on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1986 and hasn’t stopped since. He’s a difficult employee and, left with no other options, has been forced to cofound software companies; the most recent is voxgig, a social network for the conference industry, where he’s absolutely using microservices to pay the mortgage. He also cofounded nearForm, one of the first (and best!) Node.js and microservice consultancies. Before that, he was CTO of FeedHenry, a SaaS platform for mobile apps, since acquired by Red Hat.

Richard studied mathematics and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and computer science at the Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. He’s a terrible mathematician and a worse philosopher, and he can’t code in C++; hence, the obsession with JavaScript.

books by Richard Rodger

The Tao of Microservices
  • December 2017
  • ISBN 9781617293146
  • 328 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Software Development / Software Engineering / Distributed Systems / Microservices

The Tao of Microservices guides you on the path to understanding and building microservices. Based on the invaluable experience of microservices guru Richard Rodger, this book exposes the thinking behind microservice designs. You'll master individual concepts like asynchronous messaging, service APIs, and encapsulation as you learn to apply microservices architecture to real-world projects. Along the way, you'll dig deep into detailed case studies with source code and documentation and explore best practices for team development, planning for change, and tool choice.