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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system.

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Polyglot persistence vs multi-model databases for microservices

CircleCI

Microservice architecture is an application system design pattern in which an entire business application is composed of individual functional scoped services, which can scale on demand. These features have made microservices architecture a popular choice for enterprises. Database management challenges for microservices.

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EventStorming Modelling Tips to Facilitate Microservice Design

Strategic Tech

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. Used judiciously, EventStorming gives us the ability to uncover enough information about our domain and our business that we can use it to design our microservices, bounded contexts, and even our teams.

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The software engineering rule of 3

Erik Bernhardsson

The same reasoning applies to system design but with a very different conclusion. When you build a new system from scratch, and you have no idea about how it’s eventually going to be used, don’t get too attached to assumptions. Don’t worry so much about code duplication if you only have two classes or two functions or whatever.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Netflix Tech

Each microservice involved in our Personalization stack that integrated with our observability solution had to introduce a new Title Health endpoint. Key Features Proactive monitoring through scheduled collectors jobs Our Title Health microservice runs a scheduled collector job every 30 minutes for most of our personalization stack.

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What Is The Difference Between APIs And Microservices

KitelyTech

As third-party integrations and interconnected systems become more important to business operations, we have seen the rise of microservices and APIs. Many businesses confuse APIs with microservices and vice-versa, making it harder to implement either effectively. What Are Microservices? What is an API?

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Why Microservice Architecture Is More Than A Fad

taos

And now we have the so-called fad that is Microservice Architecture. Microservice Architecture was imagined as an alternative to, or and implementation of, SOA. But Microservice Architecture is not something that requires you to go all-in on. But Microservice Architecture is not something that requires you to go all-in on.