Software Design and Architecture Resources

Building Microservices With Akka HTTP: A CDC Approach

When developing microservices, think from the user's perspective first by using Consumer Driven Contracts (CDC) for testing.

February 23, 2018

by Marini Fabio

· 13,726 Views · 3 Likes

Using AWS S3 for Database Backup Storage

Database backups allow restoring upon database failures and recovering from data corruption. AWS S3 is an affordable, highly durable and reliable storage option.

February 23, 2018

by Ashan Fernando

· 17,549 Views · 3 Likes

Introducing the Maven git commit id Plugin

Tired of wondering which version of your software is running in an environment? Say hello to the Maven git commit id plugin.

February 23, 2018

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 142,012 Views · 19 Likes

Versioning a REST API With Spring Boot and Swagger

In this article, you'll learn how to maintain multiple versions of your REST API by using the Spring Boot framework along with Swagger.

February 23, 2018

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 122,296 Views · 10 Likes

Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices, Methods, and Existing Solutions

Kubernetes handles containers in several computers, removing the complexity of handling distributed processing. But what's the best way to perform Kubernetes monitoring?

Updated February 23, 2018

by Daniel Berman

· 19,164 Views · 4 Likes

Towards Resource-Oriented REST Development

A number of different possibilities to address REST development issues, move Java REST development to a higher level, and gain more simplicity.

February 23, 2018

by Remo Meier

· 10,049 Views · 7 Likes

Reproducible Builds in Java

What stands in the way of reproducible builds in Java? What are their benefits? And how can you create them? Time to turn to Gradle.

February 23, 2018

by Maria Camenzuli

· 20,189 Views · 18 Likes

Distributed Sagas for Microservices

Learn about using the distributed saga pattern and AWS Step Functions to ensure correctness and consistency in your microservices.

Updated February 22, 2018

by Yos Riady

· 87,243 Views · 31 Likes

Stateless Authentication With JSON Web Tokens

Learn how to protect your microservice, API, or web app using JSON Web Tokens to create a stateless authentication protocol.

February 22, 2018

by Yos Riady

· 48,834 Views · 15 Likes

Top 5 Alternatives to Selenium

Get one software tester's take on the best free or freemium testing frameworks and their unique benefits in this list of the top 5.

February 21, 2018

by Karthik Amirapu

· 46,123 Views · 13 Likes

Spring DI Patterns: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Let's explore the three ways Spring lets you declare dependencies using annotations: field injection, setter injection, and constructor injection.

February 21, 2018

by Roger Guldbrandsen

· 100,557 Views · 38 Likes

Implementing a Bounded Context

Get a handle on bounded context, one of the more difficult concepts of microservices architecture, which originated in Domain Driven Design.

February 21, 2018

by David Pitt

· 45,491 Views · 18 Likes

An OAuth2 Grant Selection Decision Tree for Securing REST APIs

In this article, I will explain the four types of grants and guidelines for selecting each grant based on a simple decision tree.

February 20, 2018

by Imesh Gunaratne

· 11,963 Views · 18 Likes

A/B Testing With Kubernetes and Istio

See how you can use Kubernetes and Istio together to implement A/B testing in your app so that you can measure user response and make the best decisions.

February 20, 2018

by Niklas Heidloff

· 9,519 Views · 2 Likes