The Role of Microservices in Dynamics 365 F&O

Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations User Group

In this Community Summit North America 2022 moment, taken from the Education sessions held for the Dynamics 365 FO/AX user group, Nathan Clouse, Technical Architect, enVista, explains what microservices are and how to use them in Dynamics 365 FO.

Highlights

00:11 – Microservices, also known as microservice architecture, is a particular style of developing an application. Microservices are designed to be highly focused, loosely coupled, maintainable, and testable.

00:35 – User provisioning is an example of a microservice – specifically, creating or enabling a user in Dynamics 365 FO is a job handled by microservices. Microservices are independently deployable.

00:51 – In the context of Dynamics 365 FO, microservices are handled by Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS). The infrastructure behind them is completely disjointed from specific FO instances. Behind the scenes are security and infrastructure artifacts that make it possible for microservices to communicate with LCS, but the two do not depend on each other.

01:13 – Microservices in Dynamics 365 FO are here to stay and can be utilized offline. Usually, microservices are oriented around business capabilities. Putting many microservices together can lead to the development of a very powerful application. Microservices do not do much on their own – but what they do, they do very well.


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