In the previous chapter, Steve had been asked to provide a comparison of costs and resources needed to migrate to a commercial system versus modernize the current system. He works with Stacey, head of development, who comes up with a modernization plan that includes certain changes that the team will implement to limit downtime. Steve […]
Subtree Rises to Microservices Data Management Challenge
Fresh off raising $10 million in funding, Subtree has emerged from stealth to launch a service based on the dotmesh open source utility for microservices to enable DevOps teams to capture the entire state of applications. Dotmesh captures application state as a series of units known as datadots, and captures and tracks all versions of all […]
7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts
SparkPost launched the first beta version of our cloud-based email delivery service three years ago. At its introduction, a handful of customers sent a few million emails a month. Now, our API is used by tens of thousands of customers—including Pinterest, Zillow, and Intercom—to send more than 15 billion emails a month. That dramatic […]
Red Hat Survey Sees Broad Adoption of Microservices
A new survey from Red Hat shows the extent to which IT organizations are moving to modernize their IT environments: More than two-thirds of respondents (69 percent) reported they are using microservices for both new applications and re-architecting existing ones. The survey, which includes responses from 168 IT professionals employing either Red Hat JBoss middleware […]
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 2: The Business Challenge
Steve and team have been working diligently to analyze the intricate web of code that has been organically developed over the past 12 years to design a program to modernize the application. Application is actually a poor name for all that Steve and his team manages. Steve’s team manages a complex custom supply-chain system that […]
DevOps Chat: Microservices & Containers – Mastering the Replatforming of the IT Infrastructure
The replatforming of the enterprise IT infrastructure utilizing microservices and containers is no small undertaking and is usually provoked by a shifting set of key business drivers. That is precisely the case today. The term “digital transformation” is in the hearts and minds and on the lips of top-level business executives and IT leaders alike. […]
LightStep Unveils APM for Microservices
Various forms of application performance management (APM) platforms have been around for some time. But with the rise of microservices many IT organizations are discovering that legacy APM platforms were not designed to handle the volume of software modules or the rate at which those modules are updated. But LightStep, a startup founded by former […]
NGINX Delivers New Products to Manage Microservices
At its annual user conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, NGINX delivered releases focusing on the application platform market and support of delivering microservices architectures: NGINX Plus, an application delivery controller that combines a load balancer, content cache and web server. NGINX Controller, a centralized management and monitoring platform for NGINX Plus, which orchestrates the […]
Axway Extends API Management Reach
With application programming interfaces playing a larger role in the DevOps environment, Axway has added to its API toolkit for developers. The company expanded its AMPLIFY API management platform to include a visual tool for composing and integrating APIs and enhanced its API Manager tool so that it now can be invoked to scale resources […]
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices: Chapter 1
Meet Steve. Steve is responsible for a mission-critical application for a very large enterprise. He has a problem: It takes Steve and his team a very long time to make changes to this application and release it to production. Steve has been talking to vendors, consultants and peers about agile software development techniques and DevOps, […]
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