Links tagged “microservices”

tilt.dev

An open-source development toolkit for microservices on Kubernetes, with smart rebuilds, live code updates into running containers, and a local dashboard.

jaegertracing.io

Documentation portal for Jaeger, the open-source distributed tracing platform, covering architecture, deployment, storage backends and operations.

philcalcado.com

Traces how microservice concerns such as service discovery and circuit breaking moved out of application code into a dedicated layer of sidecar proxies.

microservices.io

Pattern write-up: keep a read-only view database, synchronised by domain events, so a query can span data owned by several microservices.

microservices.io

Pattern write-up: persist a business entity as its sequence of state-changing events, so updating the database and publishing a message become a single atomic act.

blog.openshift.com

First part of a series on Envoy sidecar patterns, demonstrating circuit breaking through max_connections and max_pending_requests limits plus outlier detection.

istio.io

Home of Istio, the open-source service mesh adding traffic management, security and observability to Kubernetes and virtual-machine workloads.

medium.com

Why Netflix keeps hundreds of separate repositories and adds publisher feedback, automated version bumps and cross-repo refactoring rather than moving to a monorepo.

5pi.de

Argues that a company should keep its core and customer-facing software in-house, and that the teams building services should also operate them on self-service infrastructure.

traefik.io

Product site for Traefik, a cloud-native application proxy that routes traffic to services running on VMs, containers and Kubernetes from a single gateway.

github.com

Open-source API gateway built on NGINX, putting routing, load balancing, authentication and a plugin system in front of microservices.

grpc.io

Home of gRPC, an open-source high-performance remote procedure call framework for connecting services across languages and environments.

martinfowler.com

Weighs the benefits of microservices — module boundaries, independent deployment, technology choice — against distributed complexity, eventual consistency and operational cost.

martinfowler.com

Argues that microservices carry a productivity premium that only pays off once a system is too complex to manage as a monolith.

martinfowler.com

Defines the microservices architectural style through nine characteristics, from componentisation by service to decentralised data, and contrasts it with monoliths and SOA.

martinfowler.com

Argues that new projects should start as a monolith and split into microservices only once the service boundaries are actually understood.

lucumr.pocoo.org

A walkthrough of Nameko, a Python framework that runs HTTP handlers, background tasks and scheduled jobs as AMQP-backed services with dependency injection.