Microservices Journal
Enabling the Financial Services Shift to Microservices
The financial services industry historically has been riddled with barriers to entry. Challengers found it difficult to break through low margins and tightening regulations. However, large enterprises that once dominated the market ...
How Service Mesh Addresses 3 Key Microservices Challenges
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 ...
Containers, Service Mesh and API Gateways: It Starts at the Edge
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 ...
Knowing What Your Microservices Are Doing
Microservicin' ain’t easy, but it’s necessary. Breaking your monolith down into microservices is a must in a cloud-native world, but it doesn’t automatically make everything easier. Some things actually become more difficult ...
Microservices Momentum Accelerates
A global survey of 353 application development professionals conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of LightStep, a provider of application performance management (APM) tools, finds a full 86 percent of respondents expect ...
Time to Rethink Infrastructure Operations in Enterprises
"Business is technology and technology is business" seems to be the new mantra as the rules of corporate strategy are being rewritten across industries. According to IDC’s survey in 2017, “Two-thirds of ...
The Road Ahead for Service Mesh
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 ...
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success
DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more ...
Building a Solid Foundation for Microservices Security
It’s often true that threats evolve faster than development practices and technologies can keep up with, which can be seen in the current microservices approach to application development. While microservices bring clear ...
Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms
Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to "DevOps." With this, transition to DevOps ...
NATS Messaging Entering Cloud Native Purview
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has expanded the scope of its purview by adding open source NATS messaging software to an expanding list of technologies it now oversees. NATS messaging software ...
Service Mesh: The Best Way to Scale Enterprise Apps
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 ...

