Microservices are becoming more mainstream and bring with them a host of benefits and challenges. In this session, Netflix highlights the pros and cons of building software applications as suites of independently deployable services, as well as practical approaches for overcoming challenges. You get a firsthand look at the robust interprocess communications (IPC) framework that Netflix built and how they address the varying capacities, network usage patterns, and performance characteristics of the hundreds of microservices (e.g., Eureka, Karyon, Ribbon, RxNetty) in their cloud ecosystem.