Microservices Architecture

Auto Scaling, Cloud Architecture, Design for Cloud, Design Patterns, Microservices, Scalability, Strategy, Transient Failures, Web Application

Microservices has been a buzzword in software engineering recently. Everyone wants to build their application around Microservices architecture. Before you jump onto the bandwagon, lets do a critical review of Microservices. We will look at the cases where it is appropriate along with  advantages and disadvantages. Before we proceed let us look at how to…

Building Scalable Applications Part 3 : Cloud features that help you scale

Architecture, Auto Scaling, CDN, Cloud, Cloud Architecture, Features, Load Balancer, Tiered Architecture

In previous posts, we covered the benefits of moving to the cloud for scale and the design principles of building scalable applications. In this post, we will look at a typical reference architecture for a cloud based scalable application and cloud features that help your application scale.Architecture The below listed figure illustrates a reference architecture…