Microservices

The Hidden Cost of Success: Understanding Non-Fatal Errors in Microservices

The Hidden Cost of Success: Understanding Non-Fatal Errors in Microservices

A recent study published by researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Uber …

Distributed Traces of Microservices Architecture: Publicly Available Datasets

Distributed Traces of Microservices Architecture: Publicly Available Datasets

Distributed traces are essential for understanding the behaviour, performance, and reliability of …

Power Laws and Heavy-Tail Distributions in Hyperscale Microservices Architectures

Power Laws and Heavy-Tail Distributions in Hyperscale Microservices Architectures

Recent analyses of Meta and Alibaba’s production microservices architectures identified …

Microservice Architecture of Alibaba

Microservice Architecture of Alibaba

Alibaba has built a complex system of microservices to support its large user base and manage its …

Unveiling Graph Structures in Microservices: Service Dependency Graph, Call Graph, and Causal Graph

Unveiling Graph Structures in Microservices: Service Dependency Graph, Call Graph, and Causal Graph

The rise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices architecture has led to a major …

Cache Me If You Can: Taming the Caching Complexity of Microservice Call Graphs

Cache Me If You Can: Taming the Caching Complexity of Microservice Call Graphs

As microservices architectures have become increasingly common in modern software systems, they have …

Microservice Architecture of Meta

Microservice Architecture of Meta

Microservices have become the dominant architectural paradigm for building large-scale distributed …

Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Recently I was asked about content management systems (CMS) of the future - more specifically how …

A sidecar for your service mesh

A sidecar for your service mesh

In a recent blog post, we discussed object-inspired container design patterns in detail and the …