Using Apache Kafka for Asynchronous Communication in Microservices

While microservice architecture might not be a silver bullet for all systems, it definitely has its advantages, especially when building…

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Advanced Traffic-shadowing Patterns for Microservices With Istio Service Mesh

Microservices allow us to go faster and reduce our time to value. However, we cannot just naively move fast and…

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Revisiting Global Data Consistency in Distributed (Microservice) Architectures

Back in 2015 I wrote a couple of articles about how you can piggyback a standard Java EE Transaction Manager…

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Traffic Shadowing With Istio: Reducing the Risk of Code Release

We’ve been talking about Istio and service mesh recently (follow along @christianposta for the latest) but one aspect of Istio…

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Comparing Envoy and Istio Circuit Breaking With Netflix OSS Hystrix

When we build services architectures (Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices, the next incarnation, etc), we end up making a lot more…

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Using Docker in API Gateway and Microservice Development

As you progress in your education as a developer, you will sooner or later understand the benefits that a container…

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The Road to Cloud Native

In a world of numerous programming trends, companies are starting to boast about how they’re becoming “cloud native.” This declaration…

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Writing end to end test for a microservices architecture

One of the main aspects of microservices architecture is that the application is formed as a collection of loosely coupled…

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Microservices implementation example with Spring Boot

1. Introduction We have already been through the Microservice demo and it was so pleasing to see the wonderful response…

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