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Return of the Monolith: Amazon Dumps Microservices for Video Monitoring
A blog post from the engineering team at Amazon Prime Video has been roiling the cloud native computing community with its explanation that, at least in the case of video monitoring, a monolithic...
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Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development
A microservice has to fulfill many functional and nonfunctional requirements. When implementing one, I mostly start with the happy path to see if I meet these requirements. And with all the other...
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How OpenSearch Visualizes Jaeger’s Distributed Tracing
We all know how important observability is. Open source tooling is always a popular option. The complexity of selecting tooling is always a challenge. Typically, we end up with several best-of-breed...
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RabbitMQ Is Boring, and I Love It
RabbitMQ is boring. Very boring. And we tend not to think about boring things. RabbitMQ, like the electrical grid, is entirely uninteresting — until it stops working. The human brain is conditioned to...
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Case Study: A WebAssembly Failure, and Lessons Learned
VANCOUVER — In their talk “Microservices and WASM, Are We There Yet?” at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, Kingdon Barrett, of Weaveworks, and Will Christensen, of Defense...
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Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a Monolith after All
In any organizational structure, once you break down regular jobs into overly granularized tasks and delegate them to too many individuals, their messaging soon becomes unmanageable, and the...
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In the Great Microservices Debate, Value Eats Size for Lunch
In May, an old hot topic in software design long thought to be settled was stirred up again, sparked by an article from the Amazon Prime Video architecture team about moving from serverless...
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State of the API: Microservices Gone Macro and Zombie APIs
Microservices expanding into unwieldy messes and zombie APIs were among the concerns that emerged from this year’s Postman State of the API survey. But even with those problems, the survey also found...
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Dapr: Create Applications Faster with Standardized APIs
Building applications and getting them ready for production is a huge task. Take a look at the Twelve-Factor App that lists many essential aspects involved in creating and running SaaS products....
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Setting up Multicluster Service Mesh with Rafay CLI
This is the second of a two-part series. Read Part 1. Over the past several months, our team has been working on scaling Rafay’s SaaS controller. As a crucial part of this, we embarked on setting up...
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7 Steps to Highly Effective Kubernetes Policies
You just started a new job where, for the first time, you have some responsibility for operating and managing a Kubernetes infrastructure. You’re excited about toeing your way even deeper into cloud...
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Britive: Just-in-Time Access across Multiple Clouds
Traditionally when a user was granted access to an app or service, they kept that access until they left the company. Unfortunately, too often it wasn’t revoked even then. This perpetual 24/7 access...
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Event-Driven Microservices Offer Flexibility and Real-Time Responsiveness
In today’s dynamic business environment, developers are increasingly pressured to deliver fast, reliable, scalable solutions to keep up with evolving business demands, and traditional applications are...
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A Microservices Outcome: Testing Boomed
A microservices outcome of the past five to ten years: testing boomed. It boomed as more people just needed to test microservices. Microservices and the rise of Kubernetes reflected the shift from...
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The Basics of Event-Driven Architectures
Real-time data and event-driven systems have enabled a wide range of use cases responsible for making what the internet is today. From real-time personalization, fraud detection, content...
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5 Best Practices for Securing Your API Gateway
API gateways are the front door to all your microservices. The API gateway’s central role in routing makes it both a valuable tool for simplifying microservices-based applications and a critical point...
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A Showdown Between Express.js and Fastify Web App Frameworks
The web application framework Express.js last had a major update in 2014 — that’s a long time, contended Tamar Twena-Stern, an XM Cyber senior system architect. “The most popular Node.js framework is...
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Scaling Environments with OpenTelemetry and Service Mesh
With microservices, each team is dealing with smaller pieces of the application at a time, modularizing development and operational complexity. On the flip side, however, it has created a need to...
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Easier, Faster, Better: Real-Time Microservices
Kubernetes and microservices. They usually go hand in hand, although one does not depend on the other. You can develop a microservice without Kubernetes orchestration and use Kubernetes to build...
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Dell GA’s APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift
Dell Technologies recently announced the general availability of its Apex Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, a turnkey infrastructure platform aimed at simplifying the deployment of microservices...
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