As we close out 2022, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Microservices architecture is on the rise, already forming a key part of several current transformation projects, breaking down traditionally monolithic applications into self-contained, independently deployed […]
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 […]
Containers, Service Mesh and API Gateways: It Starts at the Edge
Anyone embracing container technology such as Docker or Kubernetes has no doubt heard about the associated next big thing: service mesh, which promises to homogenize internal network communication between microservices and provide cross-cutting nonfunctional concerns such as observability and fault-tolerance. However, the underlying proxy technology that powers a service mesh also can provide a lot […]