Topic: microservices
MuleSoft releases Anypoint Service Mesh
Integration platform provider MuleSoft is the latest company to release its own service mesh. The company announced the Anypoint Service Mesh for discovering, managing and securing microservices. In the last couple of months, Kong has open sourced its universal service mesh Kuma, and Red Hat released the OpenShift Service Mesh. RELATED CONTENT: Simplifying microservices with … continue reading
Choosing between serverless and containers
Serverless and containers are both software architecture design choices, which causes a common misconception that it is either one or the other, according to Chris Parlette, director of cloud solutions for the cloud services company ParkMyCloud. “A lot of people put serverless against containers, but there is room for both,” he said. There are three … continue reading
Istio 1.3 designed for developer adoption
The latest version of the open-source service mesh platform Istio is now available. Version 1.3 works to improve developer usability, adds a number of debugging features, and provides better support. RELATED CONTENT: Simplifying microservices with a service mesh According to Lin Sun, senior technical staff member for IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software, while Istio is … continue reading
Kong open sources universal service mesh Kuma
API and service life cycle management platform Kong announced its new open-source project Kuma, a universal service mesh designed to increase the adoption of microservices. The problem that early adopters had with the service mesh was that the first generation meshes lacked a mature control plane and required extensive manual work and was often built … continue reading
Red Hat releases OpenShift Service Mesh
Red Hat has announced its own service mesh solution to bring an end-to-end developer experience to microservices. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh provides the ability to connect, observe and simplify service-to-service communications on Kubernetes. According to the company, it is based on Istio, Kiali and Jaeger projects, and designed to free developers from having to … continue reading
Simplifying microservices with a service mesh
In the world of software, things are getting smaller all the time: smaller teams, smaller bits of code, smaller releases, smaller places for code to live and execute (containers). The point of getting smaller is to allow your organization to think bigger by getting the most advantage out of cloud resources and bringing more value … continue reading
Multigrain services: Micro vs. mini vs. macro
Many organizations say they are moving to microservices, but Gartner says that by the end of 2019, 90 percent of them will think microservices are too disruptive and switch to other methods, such as miniservices. In the meantime, enterprises are looking at how to transition away from monolithic apps, not knowing that microservices may not … continue reading
The ideal DevOps team structure
As part of GitLab’s mission to power the DevOps life cycle, it is laying out its ideal DevOps team model. “The seamless collaboration between Development and IT operations is a beautiful thing. DevOps was designed to remove silos so that these teams could work together to build, test, and deploy software faster. But there’s a … continue reading
Apollo Federation brings GraphQL to microservices
The Apollo team wants to help developers adopt GraphQL within their microservice architectures with the announcement of its open-source project Apollo Federation. According to Apollo’s engineering manager James Baxley III, developers want to be able to access data through a single GraphQL query even if that data lives in separate places. Before Apollo Federation, Baxley … continue reading
Tech companies team up on service mesh interoperability
The adoption of service meshes are giving developers new and smarter ways to connect, secure and control what is going on inside their applications and services. But it is also causing a lot of pain points and lock ins for developers. To address the problems a group of technology companies are coming together to launch … continue reading
Microservices gone wrong
Once you hit a stride with microservices and you are able to iterate more quickly, find and fix bugs faster, and introduce new features rapidly — it is crucial not to go overboard. You may want to try to start moving all your pieces of infrastructure to a microservice architecture, but as one company found … continue reading
Microservices anti-patterns
It can be easy to fall into bad patterns when moving to microservices, according to Chris Richardson, microservices consultant and founder of the transactional microservices startup Eventuate. The important thing is to recognize the mistakes you are making and address them. Some common mistakes or anti-patterns Richardson sees organizations fall into are: Distribution is free: … continue reading
