Top Microservices Framework In Java

April 13, 2021April 18, 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 4, 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…

Elastic Emergence As A Search And Observability Platform

April 1, 2021April 18, 2021 Ankur Kumar

Elastic has recently organized ElasticON virtual conference for North America (on 25th Mar 2021). While this article summarizes key takeaways from the conference, it is evident that Elastic is emerging as a compelling choice for the Search and Observability perspective. #1 – Elastic As A Search Company Elastic being a key leader in Enterprise Search demonstrated their product roadmap and capabilities as a Search solution. Search is a core competency…

When to adopt an emerging technology?

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Ankur Kumar

As a software architect, you need to make a choice when to adopt emerging technology. As suggested by research companies like Gartner, any emerging technology goes through different phases before reaching mainstream as illustrated below: Similar to Gartner, Forrester has New Wave Methodology to assess emerging technologies and provide research insights. Irrespective of Gartner or Forrester report, the decision to choose the emerging technology and applying it to formulate the…

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

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Gunjan Arora

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