While older applications tend to rely on monolithic architectures, newer software often uses microservices and cloud-native infrastructures. These decoupled architectures are more technologically efficient and resilient, as well as being easier to … Read more
Microservices
Best Language for Microservices: What You need To Know
Microservices have revolutionized software development by allowing us to modularize our applications into self-contained, independent services. However, when it comes to picking a language for building microservices, there’s no single best choice. … Read more
What Are Microservices Design Patterns?
Looking to get started with microservices design patterns? First things first: microservice architecture is an organizational approach to software development where the programmer has to use a collection of small autonomous services. These services … Read more
Design-first gRPC APIs for microservices: a sample workflow for parallel teamwork
Key Takeaways: You can allow teams to work in parallel by designing gRPC APIs before starting to code. When teams work in parallel, you significantly decrease the time-to-market of your products. A sample workflow has a few key … Read more
5 tips for Microservices good practices
If you delve into the usual techniques of designing applications, you'll discover that they were developed as monoliths, packaged as a collection of code, and installed as a single entity. The process of managing tens of thousands of lines of code … Read more
Video: How to Use Python for Async Microservices
In the video below, Iacopo Palletti, CTO at Nephilia, explains how to use Starlette (an ASGI Framework and toolkit) for building asynchronous microservices in Python. Async (asynchronous) programming is not new, but it is a new kid on the block … Read more
Using the Twelve-Factor Methodology in Cloud-Native Microservices
Introduction to Cloud-Native Microservices Cloud-native microservices refers to an app design strategy that allows developers to divide their applications into units known as microservices. The microservices are designed to share information and … Read more
Building Microservices With Security in Mind
How the banking sector will change thanks to FinTech The banking sector has evolved significantly thanks to FinTech. The sector is still set to experience significant changes due to open architecture, microservices, and other innovations. Here are … Read more
Technology for Improving the Customer Journey in Insurance
The insurance industry has been notoriously slow to embrace the world of technology and instead relied on in-person interactions to help build their business. However, there has been a profound shift in the past few years. Buyers now expect companies … Read more
Developing the Next Generation of Software and Cloud-Based Solutions for Insurtech
Insurance operating software has fundamentally changed in recent years. To thrive through the rest of the decade and beyond, insurers like Generali must take action now to secure the tech capabilities they need. The change is upon us already; … Read more
How Large eCommerce Stores Can Meet Performance and CX Requirements by Leveraging Microservices
Building an eCommerce store is far from easy. Lots of issues inevitably arise, relating to both the back- and the front-end. The larger the eCommerce operation, the greater the number and extent of the issues that need to be solved. AS Watson is … Read more
How to Transition from Monolithic Systems to Microservices with Hexagonal Architecture
In March 2020, two of the biggest telecom companies active in Italy, WIND and TRE merged into WINDTRE. As a result, the new company needed to be reorganized on several fronts, including in relation to software. The original companies used … Read more
Discover Leading Edge Front-end Technologies and Microservices Architecture that will enhance Digital Customer Experience
If you need to develop highly scalable applications, you need to consider the risks of a badly designed architecture. This is particularly true if your goal is to optimize the customer experience, adopting a user-centered design approach that is not … Read more
Airbnb’s migration from monolith to microservices
So you’ve decided to migrate from monolith to microservices, what next? Such a redesign to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a long, arduous journey that benefits from an incremental, iterative approach. Yet, such a microservices migration often … Read more
Build Incremental Architecture Through Microservices with Modern Languages – Casavo’s Case Study
Casavo began as a real-estate instant buyer and has already leveraged the traction gained through this service to become a technological leader in the real estate sphere, building a tech-offer for all actors involved in a real estate transaction. The … Read more
How to Monitor Microservices
At their core, microservices are a response to the monolithic applications of yesteryear. Rather than designing apps as one massive entity that is so interconnected there is no such thing as a small problem anymore, microservices instead break even … Read more
Troubleshooting & Debugging Microservices
From Hoverfly to Lyft Envoy, there are a number of tools available for troubleshooting and debugging microservices. But even with tools in hand, debugging microservices can be a challenge. With so many layers of potential abstraction and complexity, … Read more
Develop Microservices in PHP: an overview from Enrico Zimuel’s talk
Microservices architectural style has rapidly become the de-facto standard for continuously deployed systems and thus, it is widely adopted. Its main characteristics are enlisted in a definition given by Martin Fowler: the microservice architectural … Read more
Microservices from dev to deploy, part 1: getting started with Helidon
This article written by Todd Sharp, Cloud Developer Advocate at Oracle, was originally published on Oracle Developers Portal. Microservices are undoubtedly popular. There have been plenty of great posts on this blog that explain the advantages of … Read more