Monitoring is a crucial part of any production application, and it’s importance is increasing as we move towards cloud native. For all the benefits of distributed, microservice applications, there are...
This is a guest post by Robert Hensing. In this blog post, I describe my experience adapting a microservice for use with AWS' DynamoDB. Background The Sock Shop is Weave Works' reference microservice ...
The hot new buzz in tech is gRPC. It is a super-fast, super-efficient Remote Procedure Call (RPC) system that will make your microservices talk to each other at lightspeed, or at least that’s what peo...
If you are using Ingress on your Kubernetes cluster it is possible to restrict access to your application based on dedicated IP addresses. One possible use case would be that you have a development se...
A few days ago I had a problem with high CPU usage in one of my Go-based microservices. The microservice has evolved into two distinct components: a HTTP web-app and a batch processing service. At som...
This series of three blog posts will give readers an overview on why the Raft consensus algorithm is relevant and summarizes the functionality that makes it work. The 3 posts are divided as follows:
