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If State Is Hell, SOA Is Satan
More and more companies are describing their success stories regarding the switch to a service-oriented architecture. As with any technological upswing, there’s a clear and palpable hype factor...
View ArticleService-Disoriented Architecture
“You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one.” -Paul Barham The first rule of distributed systems is don’t distribute your system until you have an observable...
View ArticleDesigned to Fail
When it comes to reliability engineering, people often talk about things like fault injection, monitoring, and operations runbooks. These are all critical pieces for building systems which can...
View ArticleTake It to the Limit: Considerations for Building Reliable Systems
Complex systems usually operate in failure mode. This is because a complex system typically consists of many discrete pieces, each of which can fail in isolation (or in concert). In a microservice...
View ArticleThrift on Steroids: A Tale of Scale and Abstraction
Apache Thrift is an RPC framework developed at Facebook for building “scalable cross-language services.” It consists of an interface definition language (IDL), communication protocol, API libraries,...
View ArticleMore Environments Will Not Make Things Easier
Microservices are hard. They require extreme discipline. They require a lot more upfront thinking. They introduce integration challenges and complexity that you otherwise wouldn’t have with a monolith,...
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