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Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code

It is best to use a managed Kubernetes service. EKS in AWS or similar would be preferable for most companies, given the inherent cost and complexity in trying …

Kubernetes and Storage

Kubernetes is a necessary infrastructure to manage decomposed applications focused on providing discrete functionality, in a lightweight container. This was ca…

Kubernetes and the Micro-services ‘way of thinking’

Kubernetes (K8s) use-cases are centred on scaling. Architectures which are Containerised, with hundreds, or even thousands of Containers require immutable scal…

Microservices and Refactoring Code

Source link here. Code refactoring enhances microservices One of the more important coding disciplines in object-oriented programming and SOA is code refactori…

API LifeCycle Management, a summary

API and REST standards allowed an easier exchange of data and system connectivity. This has propelled the rise of containers, and Kubernetes, in which applicat…

API Gateway and a Service Mesh: Summary of Use Cases

There is a connectivity overlap within level 7 between the API Gateway and a Service Mesh. Service Mesh’s, which are decentralized proxies running against each…

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…

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…

Data Architecture and Data Architects; role, deliverables, purpose

Architectural Views for building Cloud Systems

From the Open Group Business Architecture views, which address the concerns of the users of the system, and describe the flows of business information between …

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…

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…