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Microservice Architecture of Alibaba

Abhishek Tiwari

Alibaba has constructed a sophisticated microservices architecture to address the challenges of serving its vast user base and handling complex business operations. This article draws from research by Luo et al.,

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microservices seem to be everywhere. Scratch that: talk about microservices seems to be everywhere. So we wanted to determine to what extent, and how, O’Reilly subscribers are empirically using microservices. Here’s a summary of our key findings: Most adopters are successful with microservices. And that’s the problem.

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Microservices, Apache Kafka, and Domain-Driven Design

Confluent

Microservices have a symbiotic relationship with domain-driven design (DDD)—a design approach where the business domain is carefully modeled in software and evolved over time, independently of the plumbing that makes the system work. In these projects, microservice architectures use Kafka as an event streaming platform. Microservices.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Building Microservices With AWS Lambda

Dzone - DevOps

When used to construct microservices, AWS Lambda provides a route to craft scalable and flexible cloud-based applications. AWS Lambda supports code execution without server provisioning or management, rendering it an appropriate choice for microservices architecture.

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Clojure microservices for JavaScript developers part 2

CircleCI

We are now ready to start building our first Clojure microservice. The microservice we are going to build will be very simple. SNAPSHOT" :description "Simple app to demonstrate how to construct Clojure microservices." :url Defproject isn’t a new Clojure construct you need to learn, it’s just a macro from Leiningen.

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Building Shared State Microservices for Distributed Systems Using Kafka Streams

Confluent

At Imperva, we took advantage of Kafka Streams to build shared state microservices that serve as fault-tolerant, highly available single sources of truth about the state of objects in our system. Based on their observations, we construct a formal state for each object or asset. Why we chose Kafka Streams.

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Introduction to MACH Architecture

DevOps.com

In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel.