When moving from a monolith to a distributed system, tracing and debugging can get really hard. Luckily, there are some things you can do to make it easier.
Hexagonal Architecture divides work inside and outside of an app instead of into layers. This overview covers the benefits and uses of the Hexagonal style in your work.
Stack traces have been around in the software development world for quite some time now, but it can't be ignored that they can create major issues for Operations teams.
Self-service API management is crucial because it empowers API consumers to design their own API proxy endpoints—but a pattern is key to its successful implementation.
Configuring Java security policies is an important but extremely time-consuming task. See, how much work it takes for a small project like Spring Pet Clinic.
If you have an EC2 instance running and you have root access to this EC2 instance, then you can install MongoDB with authentication on EC2 AMI Linux in eight easy steps.
The next time you design a RESTful API or web app, you'll likely incorporate HTTP verbs. It's important to understand the subtle differences between PATCH, PUT, and POST.
If you're looking to use time granularities, you can set up a time series (with a workaround) while still benefitting from MongoDB's document-oriented infrastructure.
If compliance and security are a concern, you can set up Cassandra clusters with encryption in mind using SSL while ensuring nodes can still communicate with each other.
Creating an Octopus step template to create and push a Docker image to DockerHub is a good way to move from a VM to Containers while keeping the current infrastructure.