Microservices Journal
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 ...
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 3: Choosing A Starting Point
In the previous chapter, Steve had been asked to provide a comparison of costs and resources needed to migrate to a commercial system versus modernize the current system. He works with Stacey, ...
7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts
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 ...
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 2: The Business Challenge
Steve and team have been working diligently to analyze the intricate web of code that has been organically developed over the past 12 years to design a program to modernize the application ...
DevOps Chat: Microservices & Containers – Mastering the Replatforming of the IT Infrastructure
The replatforming of the enterprise IT infrastructure utilizing microservices and containers is no small undertaking and is usually provoked by a shifting set of key business drivers. That is precisely the case ...
NGINX Delivers New Products to Manage Microservices
At its annual user conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, NGINX delivered releases focusing on the application platform market and support of delivering microservices architectures: NGINX Plus, an application delivery controller that ...
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices: Chapter 1
Meet Steve. Steve is responsible for a mission-critical application for a very large enterprise. He has a problem: It takes Steve and his team a very long time to make changes to ...
Low-Risk Monolith-to-Microservice Evolution, Part 1
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 ...
Welcome to Microservices Journal
Welcome to Microservices Journal, a community dedicated to the design of microservices-based applications and related technologies. The introduction of microservices into the digital application landscape enables a new level of agility for ...
Microservices Days coming to a city near you
Microservices is rapidly becoming a design paradigm for developing software. While there are many benefits to microservices designs, it is more complex than traditional application design. For this reason we are formulating ...
SOA vs Microservices
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 ...
Microservice Usage at Honeycomb
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 ...