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Locating Common Micro Service Performance Anti-Patterns

In this second installment on diagnosing performance issues, performance engineer Andreas Grabner focuses on spotting patterns that cause performance and scalability issues in distributed Micro Service Oriented Architectures.

Andreas Grabner
on May 03, 2016
Culture & Methods

Production Like Performance Tests of Web-Services

Tests should always keep the end user view in mind. But how to test web services, which are not directly customer-facing, and in particular, how to performance test them in a meaningful way? This article outlines performance split testing as a performance test approach that is relying on real-time production traffic.

Stefan Friese
on Apr 29, 2016
DevOps

From Monolith to Multilith at ticketea

ticketea is a large online ticket selling platform in Spain. This article describes their growing pains and how DevOps and an API-based distributed architecture allowed them to cope with growth, both from a technical (from monolith to multilith) and people (awareness and knowledge sharing) perspective.

Miguel Araujo Jose Ignacio Galarza
on Jan 24, 2016
Architecture & Design

Thinking Outside-In: How APIs Fulfill the Original Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture

The article explores how and why APIs are a lightweight and agile way of building reusable business systems. While some SOA adopters delivered these goals many efforts faced complexity and failed. The key difference with APIs is in the shift from hierarchical services to distributed resources, simplicity, statelessness and a focus on making it practical for the business to understand and implement

Anders Jensen-Waud
on Jan 21, 2016
Java

Exposing the Lucene Library as a Microservice with Baratine

Baratine is an asynchronous facade that can be placed in front of an existing library without modifying its code base, thus exposing the library as a microservice available to any language, and simplifying the requirement to have a nonblocking scalable web service. This article shows how Baratine’s POJO platform takes an API-centric approach to building high performance microservices.

Sean Wiley
on Jan 05, 2016
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Oozie Plugin for Eclipse

Oozie Eclipse plugin is a new tool for editing Apache Oozie workflows graphically inside Eclipse. Usage of this plugin allows to skip hard to develop and maintain process definition in HPDL. Instead a process graph is defined graphically by placing process actions on pallet and connecting them. An article introduces Eclipse Oozie plugin and provides an example of its usage.

Ahmed Mahran
on Oct 30, 2015
DevOps

Article Series: Patterns of DevOps Culture

Healthy organizations exhibit similar patterns of behavior, organization and improvement efforts. In this series we explore some of those patterns through testimonies from their practitioners and through analysis by consultants in the field who have been exposed to multiple DevOps adoption initiatives.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 18, 2015
DevOps

How Different Team Topologies Influence DevOps Culture

There are many different team topologies that can be effective for DevOps. Each topology comes with a slightly different culture, and a team topology suitable for one organisation may not be suited to another organisation, even in a similar sector. This article explores the cultural differences between team topologies for DevOps, to help you choose a suitable DevOps topology for your organisation.

Matthew Skelton
on Sep 02, 2015
Mobile

Metadata-Driven Design: Building Web APIs for Dynamic Mobile Apps

More than ten years ago, software architect Kevin Perera invented a design method for architectures that was called "metadata-driven design and development". In this article, Aaron Kendall explains how to use this design method and outlines similarities as well as differences to current techniques like RESTful services or HATEOAS by implementing a metadata-driven mobile application.

Aaron Kendall
on Sep 01, 2015
Architecture & Design

Seven Microservices Anti-patterns

In this article Vijay Algarasan, a Principal Architect at Asurion, discusses how he and his teams have encountered microservices at various engagements and some lessons they have learned as a result. This has resulted in them building up a series of anti-patterns and some associated patterns, which Vijay believes are more widely applicable to all practitioners of microservices

Vijay Alagarasan
on Aug 24, 2015
Lessons Learned Adopting Microservices at Gilt, Hailo and nearForm

This article contains an extensive interview on the microservices adoption process, the technologies used, the benefits and difficulties of implementing microservices, with representatives from Gilt, Hailo and nearForm.

Abel Avram
on Jul 07, 2015
Managing Technology with CORE Strategy & Architectural C’s & P’s

Suman Pradhan, who has worked in healthcare, financials and technology sectors, has written about developing the CORE (Consolidate, Optimize, Refresh and Enable) approach to helping architects and developers build sustainable solutions that match the business needs. In this article he discusses CORE and compares and contrasts with other software architectural techniques.

Suman K Pradhan
on Jun 11, 2015