Software application development and delivery often involves multiple development, infrastructure and operations teams, each with their own preferred “tools of the trade” for building, testing and deploying code changes For years, virtualization and cloud technologies have provided agile, on-demand infrastructure. The advent of Microservices promises even more agility– but what is required to take advantage […]
An Operational Approach to Benchmarking Microservices
Benchmarking microservices often falls behind on the engineering team’s to-do list. However, those that aren’t are missing out on a key component. The fundamental goal of benchmarking is to better understand the software, and test out the effects of various optimization techniques for microservices. In this post, I’ll describe an effective approach to benchmarking microservices. […]
The staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud Containerization and Microservices Survival Guide
Containerization and microservices seemed to have leaped out of nowhere and smack into the center of the enterprise IT scene. But neither leaped from nowhere. Both containerization and microservices have been part of the fabric of enterprise tech for some time—within Linux for containers and service-oriented architecture for microservices. Largely, thanks to containerization, both now […]
Transient Microservices
— ROELBOB
DevOps Debates: Monoliths or Microservices
From the time software came into existence, application software has been booming to leverage the benefit of the computing paradigm. During this cycle, it has transformed decades of design and architectural thinking, and has crossed all aspects of application development and management needs, be it configurability, reusability, maintainability, scalability or security (a good list is of […]
Microservices: Easier Than You Think
“Microservices are easier than you think and more valuable than you’ve heard.” Those are the words of Ben Gracewood, chief delivery officer at cloud POS and omnichannel retail provider Vend. His company has used microservices to trim a monolithic PHP application, improving performance and changing the way the company approaches updates. Approaching Microservices Vend is […]
DevOps and the Challenge with Services
At RackN, we’ve been working for years to make DevOps portable across platforms. For us, that means the ability to move between clouds and from cloud to metal. Of the several challenges to portability—composability, API heterogeneity, sequence, cross-system dependencies—making configuration management tools work with services has been particularly important, as significant parts of building systems […]
How to Handle DevOps Microservices (Hint: Carefully)
Given the dizzying amount of best-of-breed tools that can be involved in the development pipeline, a well-written microservice comes to the rescue with just enough code to keep things running. But too much of anything is never good. Here’s how and when to use microservices. Microservices are all the rage right now: these mini-apps are […]
Microservices, Hyper-Complexity, and Automation
Imagine building a human being one DNA codon at a time. Sure, you might be able to build a pretty awesome individual. But it would take a long, long time. And you’d only be able to build one. Worse yet, if you didn’t get your person exactly right on your first try, it would take […]
4 big challenges of microservices
The rise of microservices as a means of developing and delivering software value faster is clearly on the rise. Containers have skyrocketed from a fringe technology to a mainstream imperative and organizations are scrambling to jump on the microservices bandwagon. Before you rush out to embrace microservices, though, there are a few things you should […]