Top Microservices Framework In Java

April 13, 2021April 24, 2021 Ankur Kumar

This article is an effort to summarize the Top Microservices Framework in Java and listed in no particular priority order. Considering the flexibility in MSA (Microservices Architecture), these are not mutually exclusive and you can choose as per your architectural requirements, business need, organizational context, and other factors under consideration. #1 Spring Boot with Spring Cloud (Production-grade, Widely Adopted) Star Developed by: Pivotal (part of VMWare)Link: spring.io/projects/spring-boot Spring Boot does…

Software Quality Strategy Is Essential For Every Architect

April 4, 2021April 20, 2021 Ankur Kumar

Ensuring software quality is one of the key performance indicators for a software architect. That’s why having a strategy to ensure software quality is an essential aspect of software architect’s key responsibilities. Essentially you can apply Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) to manage Software Quality: 20 % of your focus on Software Quality can bring 80% of effects in delivering better Software Use the below three steps to make your software…

AWS App Mesh vs. Istio: A Comparison Of Service Mesh

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Gunjan Arora

Context As Microservices architecture isolates system functionalities into multiple independent services, the communication mechanism between these services plays a key role for a scalable, available, and high-performance architecture. A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages service communication in a transparent and language-independent way. It helps to configure how service instances perform critical actions such as service discovery, load balancing, data encryption, and authentication and authorization. Applicability Service Mesh pattern…

Rise Of Cloud Native With CNCF Ecosystem

May 11, 2021May 13, 2021 Ankur Kumar

CNCF has recently wrapped up a virtual conference (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021) with 50+ sessions by engineering experts in Cloud-native technologies. Though this article summarizes key takeaways from the KubeCon Europe virtual conference (May 4-7), it is highly recommended to watch recorded sessions by clicking here. You can also access slides by clicking here. The first and foremost part is to ensure we understand the definition of Cloud-native by…

Adobe Is All About Experience Management (Adobe Summit 2021)

May 3, 2021May 13, 2021 Ankur Kumar

Adobe Summit 2021 has been the talk of the town with 400+ sessions focused on Experience Platform, Analytics, Insights & Activation, B2B Marketing & Offerings, Digital Commerce, Digital Assets & Content Management, Personalization, and so on. This article summarizes key takeaways out of the keynote delivered by Anil Chakravarthy (Executive Vice President and General Manager), and ShantanuNarayen (CEO) along with senior leaders from Pfizer, GM, FedEx, and Serena Williams as…

Redis Is Not Just Caching Platform (RedisConf 2021)

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 Ankur Kumar

RedisConf 2021 has been concluded on Apr 4th with 60+ sessions focused on using Redis as technology to discover the power of real-time data. Redis being the opensource in-memory data store is not just limited to caching and increasing its usage as database & message broker as well. This article summarizes key takeaways out of the keynote delivered by Ofer Bengal (Redis Labs Co-Founder and CEO), and Yiftach Shoolman (Co-Founder…

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