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Enterprises are turning to microservices and applying microservices patterns in order to properly develop their application architecture. The core idea is to break monolithic applications into smaller ...

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Until recently, businesses were run on monolithic applications developed as a single yet autonomous unit. A slight tweak to the monolithic application affects the whole process and slows it down. For ...

A debate going on in the microservices world misses the point of why we deploy microservices in the first place: small is safer. Microservices and containers are quickly becoming part of the ...

Microservices promise to help break down monolithic applications and enable the consistent delivery of services. But they can't do the job without help. This is where event-driven architecture (EDA) ...

In the red corner, weighing in with independent scalability and distributed complexity: microservices! In the blue corner, the reigning legacy champion, with its infamous deployment challenges: the ...

Design patterns constitute a fundamental component in the architecture of software systems, providing standardised and reusable solutions to recurring design challenges. Originating from seminal works ...

The idea of distributed, componentized applications goes back a long way. Most notoriously, it emerged in the form of the SOA (service-oriented architecture) trend that peaked eight yeas ago. Now, ...

Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages, and by architectures that may amount to little more than Just a Bunch of Web ...