Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how they are evolving in the era of microservices, APIs, and serverless computing. For enterprise customers either undergoing or planning the digital transformation, this is an important question to ask....
On this blog from very early on, we have advocated the concept of service mesh. In fact, our post a sidecar for your service mesh is one of the most viewed posts this year. When Buoyant announced the Conduit - their next-generation lightweight service mesh...
In a recent blog post, we discussed object-inspired container design patterns in detail and the sidecar pattern was one of them. In a sidecar pattern, the functionality of the main container is extended or enhanced by a sidecar container without strong coupling between two. This...
Function as a Service (FaaS) remains at the core of the serverless movement. That said, most of practical serverless implementations I have seen use a combination of serverless functions and more conventional microservices running in containers. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, i.e. trying to...
Functions as a service (FaaS) is an emerging pattern to build APIs and microservices at scale. You can use various FaaS implementations such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions to build APIs ecosystem for your organisation. If you remove serverless requirements, stored...