Too often microservices aren’t designed to be resilient to changes from services they depend on. Even if services are resilient, most solutions retry connection attempts or make requests that will fail. There is a better way, one that can reduce unnecessary chatter and help ensure that services are responsive to upstream changes. The solution to this and other Node.js microservices issues is follows the Autopilot Pattern. This talk presents solutions to common pitfalls that developers face as they move to microservices and containers.

• Docker and microservice pitfalls
• Node.js microservices - Writing services using hapi
• ContainerPilot - how to use ContainerPilot with Consul for service discovery
• Deploying services in production
• Debugging containers/services in production

* Basic Node.js or Docker experience is a plus