Service Mesh as an extension to API Gateway Patterns
Previous Blog on API Gateways (and APIs). A service mesh is a follow-on pattern built around API Gateway services. The focus of a service mesh is service conne…
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API Gateway vs Service Meshing
API Gateways are often used to decouple consumers and producers of information. API Service Meshing can be used to decouple network management within, and betw…
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Big Data. Benefits. Challenges.
Most Big Data projects fail. There are many reasons for this, usually around the business reason for the project, and data quality (along with a lack of skills…
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Monolith to Modularity, an example
Virtual Machines and Monoliths can be valid. It is untrue that every application must be decomposed into microservices, and containers. Decomposed microservice…
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J.P. Morgan: Digital, Data Transformation and the Data Mesh
Monolithic applications may need to be decomposed in service-oriented components, to run and scale in lightweight containers. Similarly, monolithic Data archit…
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Cloud Containers and Virtual Machines: Overview of use cases.
Containers and Virtual Machines both have a role within the modern Cloud architecture. Both possess some advantages and disadvantages. The graphics below summa…
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Database Design for High end Applications
Database design for high end applications Many applications today are data-intensive, not CPU intensive. Raw unlimited CPU power is rarely an architectural or …
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12 Factors and the Strangler Pattern
12 Factors and the Strangler Pattern Cloud native builds will mean that legacy applications, will need to be rebuilt to fit into cloud patterns. An example of …
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Cloud APIs an Introduction
What is an Application Programming Interface or APIs? In general, APIs can be defined as providing a standard and common access interface for an application an…
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