Microservices in Action at the Dutch National Police

Explore how the Dutch National Police implements microservices architecture in their Cloud, Big Data, and Internet division through this 51-minute conference talk. Gain insights into the organization's use of cutting-edge open-source technologies to build cloud-native web applications in a private cloud environment. Discover the architecture, challenges, and benefits of their microservices approach, including how four DevOps teams collaborate on a single product using models inspired by Spotify and Netflix. Learn about their implementation of DevOps principles, Continuous Delivery, and how they handle security, build pipelines, test automation, performance testing, service discovery, automated deployments, and monitoring. Understand how this approach enables startup-like agility within a large police organization, covering topics such as methodology, culture, current architecture, platform, frontend and backend development, anatomy of microservices, and the path to adoption. Gain valuable insights into running microservices in production and overcoming associated challenges.