microservice

Going serverless: Security outside the box

Going serverless: Security outside the box

January 22, 2020

The advent of serverless technologies and infrastructure as code has changed how we build and deploy security services, empowering teams to create low-cost, scalable, and secure services to protect organizations. Drawing on their real-world experiences, Jack Naglieri and Austin Byers explore tools and techniques for successfully building, deploying, and debugging serverless security applications.
High performance Microservices on Linux with Apache Thrift

High performance Microservices on Linux with Apache Thrift

January 21, 2020

The world is rapidly adopting cloud native approaches to software development, reaping the synergies produced by combining microservices, Linux container technology and dynamic application orchestrati …
Building next-gen edge architecture at Expedia

Building next-gen edge architecture at Expedia

January 20, 2020

As Expedia refactors its backend services into a finer-grained microservice architecture, frontend applications have begun to be split into smaller applications serving a small number of pages or content on the website. Rick Fast details how Expedia is creating an extremely configurable, self-service edge architecture for routing between frontend applications and managing bot traffic.
Consumer-driven contract testing with Pact and Docker

Consumer-driven contract testing with Pact and Docker

January 20, 2020

Harry Winser explains how to leverage consumer-driven contracts to achieve fully independent releases of microservices across teams and how to handle a service rollback while still serving over 47 million requests a day. Harry also demonstrates how to use the Pact framework to continuously deliver services that depend on one another and Docker to make developer testing easier.
Emergent distributed architectures: Microservices and data pipelines

Emergent distributed architectures: Microservices and data pipelines

January 19, 2020

Peter Bourgon and Sean Braithwaite offer an overview of microservices and data pipelines, explaining how both systems reflect the organizations and people that build them (in adherence to Conways law) and can be well understood in terms of their relationship to change and time. You'll learn the virtues and vices of each architecture and get enough context to apply them coherently.
Make load balancing great again

Make load balancing great again

January 18, 2020

Emile Vauge explains how to effectively manage inbound network traffic in your container-based infrastructure with Traefik, a modern reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.
Real-world consistency explained

Real-world consistency explained

January 17, 2020

Uwe Friedrichsen explores the challenges, options, and trade-offs of different consistency models in distributed system landscapes, covering the limitations of ACID transactions, eventual consistency, and current research that tries to fill the gaps between ACID and BASE transactions.
OpenTracing: One Instrumentation for Metrics, Logs and Distributed Tracing

OpenTracing: One Instrumentation for Metrics, Logs and Distributed Tracing

January 16, 2020

Understanding how your microservices based application is executing in a highly distributed and elastic cloud environment can be complicated. CNCF OpenTracing is a new standard to help provide observa …
Slaying the dragon: How to rewrite a monolith into microservices and stay alive

Slaying the dragon: How to rewrite a monolith into microservices and stay alive

January 16, 2020

Do you have an old monolith you really want to rewrite, but dont know where to start? Dalia Simons shares ideas, tips, and strategies for rewriting an important monolith service into microservices while maintaining full availability.
The monorepo: Storing your source code has never been so much fun

The monorepo: Storing your source code has never been so much fun

January 16, 2020

The popularity of Git and GitHub has led to an explosion in the number of software repositories. But is creating a new repository always the right approach? Gareth Rushgrove offers an overview of the monorepoputting all your product's or organization's code in a single repositorycovering the advantages of monorepos and the tools to help maintain them.
Watch out! The nanoservices are comIng.

Watch out! The nanoservices are comIng.

January 15, 2020

Welcome to the world of nanoservices: smaller than a microservice, bigger than a function, they are the perfect unit of software. Nanoservices are flexible, manageable, and scalable and a great way to do serverless computing. Matthew Clark explains how to get nanoservices right, drawing on his experience at the BBC, which now has over a thousand in production.
Apache Spark and machine learning on microservices

Apache Spark and machine learning on microservices

January 14, 2020

Hadoop-based data platforms that power ETL jobs and machine learning pipelines are great examples of monolithic architectures that could be redesigned with microservices. Stepan Pushkarev walks you through building and deploying data processing, reporting services, training, and prediction pipelines as decoupled microservices connected with the rest of the enterprise architecture.
Application scaling over the edge: Microservice architecture in industrial applications

Application scaling over the edge: Microservice architecture in industrial applications

January 14, 2020

Driven by the need for data analytics in Industry 4.0, edge computing is gaining momentum to bring intelligence to the devices at the networks edge. Fei Li offers insights on a microservice-based architecture that keeps analytics applications on edge devices while dynamically utilizing resources on the cloud to achieve resilience and scalability in critical industrial applications.
Architecturing and securing IoT platforms with microservices

Architecturing and securing IoT platforms with microservices

January 14, 2020

IoT device management and multiprotocol messaging platforms demand specific architectural decisions and high-concurrency approaches due to the massive number of expected devices. Drasko Draskovic and Janko Isidorovic share an architecture, implementation, and testing procedures needed to create an industry-grade IoT platform based on microservices and Docker containers.
Building microservices with ASP.NET Core

Building microservices with ASP.NET Core

January 13, 2020

Microsoft finally has a truly open source, cross-platform development framework that is ideal for building cloud-native microservices: ASP.NET Core. Kevin Hoffman explains how to use ASP.NET Core to build immutable releases with Docker, address real-world concerns like configuration, security, and data access, and implement continuous integration and continuous delivery in the cloud.
Building next-gen edge architecture at Expedia

Building next-gen edge architecture at Expedia

January 13, 2020

As Expedia refactors its backend services into a finer-grained microservice architecture, frontend applications have begun to be split into smaller applications serving a small number of pages or content on the website. Rick Fast details how Expedia is creating an extremely configurable, self-service edge architecture for routing between frontend applications and managing bot traffic.
Complex event flows in distributed systems

Complex event flows in distributed systems

January 13, 2020

In distributed systems, some business transactions and end-to-end processes stretch across the boundaries of individual services. While event-driven choreography leads to nicely decoupled systems, complex event chains can cause headaches. Bernd Rcker and Martin Schimak explain why transforming certain events into commands is beneficial and how to avoid losing sight of larger-scale flows.
Continuous data-centric architecture

Continuous data-centric architecture

January 13, 2020

In the last five years, data has again risen to prominence, with chief data officers, data science, and analytics on the business side and microservices and NoSQL databases on the technology side. But how should software architects approach data in this age of Agile, big data, and the cloud? Murat Erder looks into key trends and architectural considerations.
Continuous delivery patterns for contemporary architecture

Continuous delivery patterns for contemporary architecture

January 13, 2020

It's evident that modern software architecture is evolving toward fully component-based architectures, but there are many challenges to delivering such applications in a continuous, safe, and rapid fashion. Daniel Bryant shares a series of patterns to help you identify and implement solutions for continuous delivery of contemporary service-based architectures.
Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy

Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy

January 13, 2020

Microservices are an increasingly popular approach to building cloud-native applications, and dozens of new technologies that streamline microservices development, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Envoy, have been released over the past few years. Phil Lombardi and Rafael Schloming walk you through actually using these technologies to develop, deploy, and run microservices.
Docker in production: Your journey starts here.

Docker in production: Your journey starts here.

January 13, 2020

Whether you are migrating existing applications or starting afresh with microservices, Clarence Bakirtzidis helps you get started on your journey to Docker-based production environments, focusing on an infrastructure-as-code approach via scripting and automation from the command-line interface.
Implementing an event-driven microservices architecture in a functional language

Implementing an event-driven microservices architecture in a functional language

January 12, 2020

Web services are typically stateless entities that need to operate at scale. Nikhil Barthwal explains how Jet.com implemented event-driven microservices architecture using a functional language, demonstrating how the functional paradigm captures the behavior of this service architecture very naturally and offers several benefits, such as scalability, productivity, and correctness.
Building .NET Core Microservices with Steeltoe

Building .NET Core Microservices with Steeltoe

January 11, 2020

The software world is moving to microservices. For all their benefits, microservice architectures expose many distributed computing problems that developers need to solve–problems like service discov …
Platform architecture for omnichannel retail

Platform architecture for omnichannel retail

January 11, 2020

The retail landscape for brick and mortar companies transitioning to digital is incredibly complex. Saddled with extensive legacy systems that impinge rapid development capabilities, retailers need an architecture that melds the new with the old. Joel Crabb shares a platform architecture for retailers to compete in this new world.
Pragmatic event-driven microservices

Pragmatic event-driven microservices

January 11, 2020

Most discussions about implementing microservices start by evaluating the technical options and their challenges. However, the real business value is in functionality. Allard Buijze demonstrates how to build evolutionary microservices, starting with a single application that can be scaled out and distributed once the sensible boundaries are known.
Rethinking microservices with stateful streams

Rethinking microservices with stateful streams

January 11, 2020

Ben Stopford looks at two forces that sit in opposition: data systems (which focus on exposing data) and services (which focus on encapsulating it). How should we balance these two? Streaming offers a solution.
Trace Everything: When APM Meets SysAdmins

Trace Everything: When APM Meets SysAdmins

January 11, 2020

Transaction tracing is typically thought of something that only developers do when they need to troubleshoot a piece of their software. And lately, its also been used for tracing microservice-based t …
The road taken

The road taken

January 9, 2020

A few years ago, Gamesys began to modernize its platform. Moving to a containerized microservice architecture was a big part of this journey. While the road taken was long and bumpy, the team was able to fulfill most of its promises. Zsolt Sztupk shares Gamesys's experience, pinpointing various design decisions that both helped and hindered the team in achieving what they wanted.