Articles filed in category 'Microservices'

If you’re lucky enough to be involved in building a new enterprise system, you’ll want to check this out. Rachel takes a look at how the company where she works made some interesting—and forward-looking—decisions, and she shows us the benefits of microservices while she’s at it.

Peter introduces you to GraphQL so your REST API client list can grow and change without a lot of pain. You can use strongly typed schema, eliminated over- and under-fetching, and you can get analytics about how clients are really using your API.

Miguel Castro argues that microservices are not merely tiny services but a holistic architectural approach that shapes how services, their callers, and clients interact to deliver robust, scalable applications. He emphasizes thinking in terms of architecture and boundaries, not just technology, advocating a holistic decomposition that foregrounds characteristics such as redundancy, isolation, dependency checking, service discovery, easy client access via an API gateway, ...and design-for-failure practices. Using a practical e-commerce example, Castro shows how client composition and fault tolerance must influence service boundaries and infrastructure, while acknowledging real-world trade-offs and the value of balancing theory with implementation realities.See More