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Archive of posts with category 'microservices'
In a large, busy cluster, how do you scale Istio to address Istio-proxy Container being OOM-Killed and Istiod crashes if too many connected istio-proxies?
Imagine you run a single page app at example.com that communicates with backends over restful API and is authenticated with JWT tokens managed by you, but identities are managed by...
As presented in my previous post, microservices are the state-of-the-art architecture for building scalable, highly-available, manageable backend. No more 30-minute build time, single point of failure, and constant regression from...
Message queues are an asynchronous inter-process communication protocol that gains much of its glory with the recent hypes in microservices. Senders and receivers do not interact with the middleware at...
HTTP provides an abstraction of short connections. Unlike the continuous byte streams in TCP, exchanges between client and server over HTTP starts with a client request and ends with server...
A common design for content display, pagination partitions information into multiple pages and serves one at a time. We have seen it in search results, message history, and cascading news...
I have been working with another three wonderful people on the senior design project, which is a web application of an inventory management system, and the production is up at...
All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. There will be no other form of inter-process communication (IPC) allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of...
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