In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
The Move Away from Monolithic Application Development
Shifting from monolithic application development Businesses need agility to deliver better services, meet changing requirements, and seize new opportunities as they arise. At the heart of many efforts are applications based on modern development strategies and techniques. Specifically, many businesses are moving away from monolithic applications of the past that are hard to modify and take […]
Microservices vs. Monoliths: Which is Right for Your Enterprise?
With microservices projected to grow globally at a 22.5% rate between 2019 and 2025, the choice between monolithic and microservices architectures needs to be carefully considered. If you are wondering what microservices are best suited for, or whether your business should stick to monolithic or switch to microservices, here are a few cardinal points to […]
Application Architecture
Sysdig Extends Cloud Monitoring Alliance With IBM
Sysdig and IBM announced they have extended their alliance to make Sysdig monitoring tools more broadly available across IBM public cloud services. IBM first adopted the Sysdig platform to enable DevOps teams to monitor workloads running on a subset of the IBM Cloud in June 2018. Now the company will extend those managed instances of […]
Microservices: The Advantages of SOA Without Its Drawbacks
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the great hope of organizations decades ago when they sought to advance legacy system integration, reduce and bypass layers, and rapidly access the system of record. At the time, the existing solution was point-to-point integration, creating a brittle “spaghetti” middle layer that was hard to manage. This was replaced by […]
Best of 2019: Five Microservices Worst Practices
As we close out 2019, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Microservices are moving to the mainstream. The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2019 Predictions states that by 2022, 90% of all new apps […]
Data Monoliths Go Cloud-Native with Kubernetes
Breaking monolithic applications into independently scalable services is the core of the cloud-native application model. By making cloud-native apps easy to deploy and manage, Kubernetes has contributed to a big change in IT practices. Initial cloud-native conquests started with stateless services and quickly grew to encompass applications that manage data. Database management systems have long […]
Kong Applies AI to API Management
Kong today announced today two offerings that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of application programming interfaces (APIs). The first offering, dubbed Kong Brain, collects data from any existing platform to auto generate documentation, which can then be used to automate the configuration of the Kong Enterprise API management platform. The second […]
NGINX Unveils Hybrid Application Delivery Controller Platform
NGINX this week announced it has developed a common framework for managing application delivery that can be applied across both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Announced at the NGINX Conf 2018 conference, the NGINX Application Platform has been rearchitected to provide traditional load balancing capabilities and a web application firewall (WAF), as well as a built-in […]