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 1 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 […]

Sharding for Scale: Architecture Matters

October 15, 2017 by Lori MacVittie 0 Comments

In the days of monolithic applications, scale was simple. As every instance of the app was the same, it really didn’t matter which one processed a request, as long as it was processed. On the back end, a single, ginormous data store held everything. This model ran into serious issues as apps migrated to the […]

4 big challenges of microservices

September 21, 2015 by Tony Bradley 7 Comments

The rise of microservices as a means of developing and delivering software value faster is clearly on the rise. Containers have skyrocketed from a fringe technology to a mainstream imperative and organizations are scrambling to jump on the microservices bandwagon. Before you rush out to embrace microservices, though, there are a few things you should […]

3 golden rules of microservices deployments

May 7, 2015 by Mrina Natarajan 3 Comments

As a developer, you value the principles of SOA. You aspire to build applications as a set of consumable services via endpoints. Remember how Amazon used SOA to build the AWS platform and how Google is emulating AWS? However, not all is hunky-dory in the SOA world. Developing is one thing but running, managing, and […]