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To RPC or Not to RPC: Choosing the Right Communication Strategies in a Microservice Architecture
Thomas Bøgh Fangel presents Lunar Way’s journey of breaking up their Rails monolith into a microservice architecture focusing on the benefits changing synchronous RPC to asynchronous events.
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A Microservice Approach in the Boundaries of a Traditional Enterprise Environment
Sebastian Eggers discusses Microservice Blueprint, a well-documented and working reference implementation for a Java-based microservice/API development project.
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Networking Your Microservices Applications
Owen Garrett discusses some of the approaches that have been tried by the industry including emerging technologies to help find the right solution for an application.
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CI/CD/CS: Implementing Continuous Security across Your Delivery Pipeline and at Run-Time
Jorge Salamero Sanz discusses use case examples on how to make a CI/CD pipeline interact with Docker security tools, and how to prepare for policy violations that happen at runtime.
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Efficient Service Communication with gRPC
Petra Bierleutgeb takes a look at gRPC, discussing how its support for HTTP/2, protocol buffers, type-safety and others makes it an alternative to REST/JSON-based service communication.
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Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices
Sascha Möllering describes reusable serverless patterns, including operational and security best practices, discussing potential pitfalls, and what it takes to move to a serverless architecture.
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Break Up with Your Front-end Monolith
Elisabeth Engel discusses refactoring a front-end monolith, offering advice including building a parent app shell to deal with loading and routing child components, and avoiding certain obstacles.
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Running AWS Lambda Functions on CloudFront with Lambda@Edge
Oliver Gutperl introduces the Lambda@Edge runtime model, outlines use cases like cookie handling and redirects, then he covers experimental ideas that take advantage of serverless.
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What is a Service Mesh, and Do I Need One When Developing Microservices?
Daniel Bryant introduces service mesh, what it is, when to use it, and some of the tools to employ.
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Resilience, Service Discovery and Zero Downtime Deployment in Microservice Architectures
York Xyander, Bodo Junglas discuss strategies for service discoverability and transparent failover in a microservices architecture, how to achieve zero downtime and an auto-scaling architecture.
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Microservices: Smaller Is Better?
Eberhard Wolff discusses the benefits of microservices and some of the advantages of creating smaller services instead of larger ones.
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Microservices or SOLID Services?
Ondrej Krajicek discusses how basic techniques - SOLID principles, Design by Contract - and certain metrics can be used in architecting microservices, and the benefits resulting from using them.