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 1: Handling Transient Failures in Cloud Applications

Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Architecture, Design, Design for Cloud, Design Principles, Scalability, Strategy, Tiered Architecture, Transient Failures

While there are numerous advantages of deploying on the cloud, there are no guarantees that the cloud platform services will respond successfully every time. In a cloud environment periodic transient failures should be expected. The approach should be to minimize the impact of such failures on the application execution by anticipating and proactively handling failures.The…