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Microservices

11 entries tagged “Microservices”

Testing Microservices: Contract Tests Over End-to-End Suites September 19, 2022 · 4 min Microservices fail at the seams. A layered test strategy that keeps feedback fast and catches integration issues before production. testing microservices go

Distributed Systems Patterns I Keep Reaching For May 30, 2022 · 6 min Timeouts, retries with jitter, circuit breakers, sagas, outbox and inbox, backpressure: the distributed systems patterns that survive production. distributed-systems architecture microservices

GraphQL Federation in 2021: Most Teams Still Don't Need It October 4, 2021 · 3 min A year after my last federation post, Apollo is pushing it hard. Most teams I see have under 30 engineers and don't need a federated graph. api microservices opinion

API Gateway Patterns: Edge, BFF, and Service Mesh Ingress May 31, 2021 · 5 min Edge gateways, BFFs, and mesh ingress: what belongs in an API gateway, what doesn't, and what I learned running them at my infrastructure startup and a large telecom. api microservices architecture

gRPC in Production with Go: Protos, Deadlines, Errors May 11, 2020 · 11 min gRPC patterns from moving a startup's internal APIs off REST: proto design, Go servers and clients, status codes, testing, and mistakes that cost weekends. api go microservices

Monolith to Microservices: When to Split and How July 1, 2019 · 5 min Most teams shouldn't migrate to microservices. How to tell if you should, and how to split with the strangler pattern without wrecking delivery. microservices architecture go

Istio 1.0 in Practice: Powerful, Painful, Often Overkill November 26, 2018 · 5 min Evaluating Istio 1.0 at a fintech startup: what it gives you, what it costs in overhead and complexity, and why most teams should think twice. kubernetes microservices infrastructure

Microservices Security: Identity, mTLS, and Secrets July 23, 2018 · 6 min Split the monolith and every internal call becomes attack surface. Service identity, mTLS, authorization patterns, and secrets management in practice. security microservices architecture

Service Mesh: You Probably Don't Need One November 27, 2017 · 3 min I evaluated Istio and Linkerd for our microservices at the fintech startup. My conclusion: most teams are buying complexity they haven't earned yet. kubernetes microservices

Event-Driven Architecture: Why We Switched and What Broke April 10, 2017 · 5 min Event-driven architecture lessons from a fintech and a mobility startup: Kafka vs RabbitMQ, event design, idempotency, sagas, and when not to bother. architecture microservices

Microservices vs Monolith: Why Small Teams Should Wait January 15, 2016 · 5 min Most teams adopt microservices too early and pay for complexity they don't need. A modular monolith ships faster and keeps the option to split later. architecture microservices startups