How Service Mesh Addresses 3 Key Microservices Challenges

July 30, 2018 by Zach Jory 1 Comments

I was recently reading the “Global Microservices Trends” report by Dimensional Research and found myself thinking, “A service mesh could help with that.” Let’s look at three key challenges listed in the report. A couple key points in the report make it clear microservices are seeing widespread adoption. It’s also clear that along with the […]

Containers, Service Mesh and API Gateways: It Starts at the Edge

June 19, 2018 by Daniel Bryant 1 Comments

Anyone embracing container technology such as Docker or Kubernetes has no doubt heard about the associated next big thing: service mesh, which promises to homogenize internal network communication between microservices and provide cross-cutting nonfunctional concerns such as observability and fault-tolerance. However, the underlying proxy technology that powers a service mesh also can provide a lot […]

The Road Ahead for Service Mesh

April 11, 2018 by Zach Jory 0 Comments

If you’re struggling to manage microservices as architectures continue to scale, there’s a good chance you’ve at least heard of service mesh. For the purposes of this blog, I’ll assume you’re familiar with the basic tenets of a service mesh. I believe that service mesh is advancing microservice communication to a new level that is […]

Service Mesh: The Best Way to Scale Enterprise Apps

March 8, 2018 by Zach Jory 0 Comments

Microservices are great for DevOps, but the service-to-service communication these architectures depend on are complex to run and manage at production scale. Enter service mesh: the best way for enterprises to scale, secure and monitor apps. A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer enabling service-to-service communication to be quick, secure and reliable. If you’re building […]

7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts

February 7, 2018 by Chris McFadden 2 Comments

SparkPost launched the first beta version of our cloud-based email delivery service three years ago. At its introduction, a handful of customers sent a few million emails a month. Now, our API is used by tens of thousands of customers—including Pinterest, Zillow, and Intercom—to send more than 15 billion emails a month. That dramatic […]

Low-Risk Monolith-to-Microservice Evolution, Part 1

November 14, 2017 by Christian Posta 2 Comments

In designing and organizing a two-day workshop on microservices, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is a small subset of that material, but I wanted to share it to get feedback (in the workshop we go into more detail […]

SOA vs Microservices

October 16, 2017 by JP Morgenthal 2 Comments

Some say microservices architecture is proof that SOA is still alive. I contend that microservices architecture replaces SOA due to deficiencies in how SOA has been implemented as well as the original intent. In the mid-1990s there was a surge of investment for implementing enterprise applications to replace the aging homegrown legacy applications. These new […]

Microservice Usage at Honeycomb

October 15, 2017 by Nathan LeClaire 1 Comments

I recently joined Honeycomb, an observability startup where we are working to help generalist software engineers solve problems with their apps in an increasingly distributed world. The architecture we use to deliver our product can be described as using microservices, but interestingly, to use microservices specifically was not a deliberate design choice. It was instead […]