In a previous post on microservices integration patterns, we talked briefly about messaging. Messaging comes with many options and patterns, and one of the most critical decisions you’ll make is choosing between message brokers. RabbitMQ and Kafka are lead options,...
When the world wide web first emerged, integrating different types of operating systems was a core challenge. Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) created communication channels by sharing hypertext, these systems started speaking a common language over an accepted...
Out of the many advantages of microservices, the most significant motivations are scale and autonomy for business units. These go hand in hand. However, we still need to create an integrated experience that makes sense for the end user. It’s important to keep both...
In the previous post, we took a look at what observability is and how to build it into your application. Just to recap, observability is developing insights into the system based on external signs. For example, the car dashboard has a service engine light,...
The nature of distributed systems/microservices has challenged us to rethink our approach to making an application or service observable. Common practices used in the enterprise may not give us the valuable data we need, at the scale we need, to proactively understand...
