So welcome to another episode of the ThoughtWorks podcast.

My name is Johannes.

I'm a developer from Hamburg.

And I'm sitting here with Lukash, a good friend of mine.

Lukash, why don't you introduce yourself?

Hi.

So as you've heard, my name is Lukash. I'm working for ThoughtWorks as a developer

and a consultant. And I'm also based in the Hamburg office. Yeah. Okay. So what do you want to talk about?

So back in October, Sam Newman and myself, we visited SoundCloud to basically look into the way how they approach their

microservice ecosystem and what is unique about their approach and what they actually discovered

on the way. And this resulted in a blog post I wrote about the pattern they are using or kind of also discovered called BFF, Backends for Frontends.

And this post actually generated a lot of traffic and discussions.

So I thought it would be actually a nice idea to talk about it on a podcast.

So what is a backend for frontend?

So back-in for front-end is basically an idea how to basically expose the API, your set of microservices

are offering towards your clients.

So the way, how you, there are different approaches,

so you can actually achieve something like this.

And back in the day, you had basically, you know,

in a web development kind of way,

you had an website and a public API for that website,

which was inserved in most of their cases by a monolithic application.

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