This rather long, but extremely well-researched article by Kai Wähner is a follow-up and update to his previous article "Microservices and whether that spells the death of the Enterprise Service Bus and other middleware." In this piece, he discusses how relevant microservices, containers, and a cloud-native architecture is for middleware. Take the time and read this... it's well worth it!
A brilliant from-the-start introduction to using Spring Boot on Docker. This article even takes you through what Docker is so you've no excuse not to give it a whirl.
There are a lot of parallels between the Internet Of Things and Microservices. One of the big battles in the design is the granularity of each service and the impact that can have on interdependency and network costs.
Almost all applications that perform anything useful for a given business need to be integrated with one or more applications. With microservices-based architecture, where a number of services are broken down based on the services or functionality offered, the number of integration points or touch points increases massively.
Benchmarking HTTP servers is beset by several difficulties: tests may be conducted with unrealistic parameters (e.g., pure overhead v maximum concurrency), and thus yield unuseful results. Our tests are different and produced some interesting outcomes that yielded new learnings about HTTP performance in the wild.
JSON is a text-based data interchange format that is lightweight, language independent, and easy for humans to read and write. In the current enterprise, JSON is used for enterprise messaging, communicating with RESTful web services, and AJAX-based communications.
This post looks at using and configuring the Log4j 2 properties file, letting you change various configuration options without modifying your application code.
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