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 are essential for understanding the behaviour, performance, and reliability of …
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
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
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
As microservices architectures have become increasingly common in modern software systems, they have …
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 …
Getting started with Conduit - lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes
On this blog from very early on, we have advocated the concept of service mesh. In fact, our post a …
A sidecar for your service mesh
In a recent blog post, we discussed object-inspired container design patterns in detail and the …