Microservices

Discover a robust retry mechanism for microservices, addressing network issues, microservice lag, and service downtime. Learn about our pragmatic approach using exponential backoff, batch jobs, and a 24-hour recovery system, ensuring visibility, controlled load, and minimal infrastructure overhead. Understand why Kafka and event-driven architecture weren't suitable for our needs.

Learn about our approach to open source, including where we focus our contributions in projects and communities, how we push innovation upstream, and what you should consider when embracing open source in your enterprise.

Debezium is a platform for change data capture (CDC) that captures row-level changes in databases and streams them to message brokers for real-time processing.

Microservices are definitely the hot new thing in commercial application development. The term microservice has replaced Agile, DevOps, and RESTful as the hot new buzzword that all resumes and conference talks have to feature. But microservices are more than just a buzzword or a passing fad. In fact, they are the evolution of all of these previous concepts and an approach that has begun to show the promise of cutting through a number of long-standing issues in application development.

OpenWhisk lets you quickly and easily build feature-rich apps that automatically trigger responses to events.

Explore the fundamentals and concepts of OpenShift for developers who are new to the platform and would like to understand the core basics of it.

gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. It is also applicable in last mile of distributed computing to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services.

In spite of drawbacks, microservices offer the flexibility and scalability that developers need to rapidly develop and update their applications. The trick is knowing how to use microservices and containers together effectively. In this article, we introduce the concepts of microservices and containers and show you how to use them together.

This tutorial shows you how microservices make cloud applications more manageable, scalable, and reliable.

To understand microservices, one needs to know about containers. But what are containers? To understand that, we need to understand virtual machines and how containers and virtual machines differ.