“The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things…” Of Monoliths and Massive Blocks Historically applications were built as a single executable, containing many classes or libraries, merged at compile time. This produced a “Monolith” The name means a single massive block of stone. All the developers Read more…
When it come to securing microservices, there are several aspects to consider: Securing the Development Lifecycle and Automated Testing: The key benefit of using a microservice architecture is the speed to production. We can change a service, test it and rapidly deploy it to production. To ensure we don’t introduce Read more…
Properties and Benefits of an Enterprise Event Broker Background An Enterprise Event Broker acts as the communication hub for all business events and hence for communication between microservices. This is an evolution of the Mediated Services Model which was itself an evolution of the API Services model, as shown below: Read more…
Implementing an Event Driven Architecture using Azure Event Grid If we abstract the requirements of an event driven architecture, we can distill it down to five basic concepts: the “Topic”, or data entity, about which an event is concerned and its associated endpoint the “Event” itself, i.e. what has happened Read more…
Communication between microservices using a Business Event Based approach via an Event Broker Service When integrating Microservices, the principle of “independence” means that it is desirable to avoid directly coupling the services. A commonly used technique is to use a message queue to provide the integration required, as shown: When Read more…
As previously discussed, the term “microservice” covers a software development paradigm that has grown from contemporary practices that are intended to increase the speed and efficiency of developing and managing software solutions at scale. Microservices is more about applying a set of principles and architectural patterns than it is about Read more…
The term “Microservice Architecture” has become popular over the last few years descibe a way of designing large scale software applications as suites of small, independently deployable services. While there’s no precise definition of this style of architecture, there are certain common characteristics around organisation around business capability, automated deployment, intelligence within the endpoints, and decentralized control of Read more…