Serverless & Microservices

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (755+ words) Service virtualization solves this by replacing the real services with virtual ones that your application cannot distinguish from the real thing. A virtual service is a software component that sits in the same network position as a real upstream service…...

15+ hour, 57+ min ago   (534+ words) If you spend five minutes browsing the Go ecosystem for a web framework, you will inevitably run... Tagged with webdev, productivity, go, backend. If you spend five minutes browsing the Go ecosystem for a web framework, you will inevitably run…...

15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1062+ words) In the beginning, there was a monolith. And the monolith was large. It had been carefully curated over many years by chinbearded nerds rooted firmly in the bland culture of the 20th century. They wrote code in languages that required semicolons,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (358+ words) Restoring power after a breaker trip involves a decision: whether the conditions that caused the interruption still exist. For rail power systems, that question makes the sequence before reclosing an important part of the equipment discussion. Swartz Engineering, a family-owned…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (514+ words) We couldn't find anything matching your search. Try another word, or explore these topics: Learn how to build a robust, zero-cost social media auto-poster using Cloudflare Workers Cron, featuring KV token rotation, content deduplication, a runtime kill switch, and failure-only…...

16+ hour, 24+ min ago   (429+ words) Serverless workers excel at handling stateless API requests, executing webhook logic, and routing web traffic on the edge. However, they lack a persistent filesystem or a static file server. You cannot simply drop generated images into a public folder inside…...

16+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1591+ words) A customer places an order. The API returns 202 Accepted in 80 milliseconds. The frontend displays a confirmation, the dashboard looks healthy, and the backend team congratulates itself on eliminating a slow synchronous request. Somewhere behind that response, a Kafka consumer is…...

17+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1569+ words) Here are the kinds of decisions I would challenge much harder today, even when the proposal initially looks perfectly reasonable. Consider a growing e-commerce platform with a reasonably healthy monolithic backend. The application handles orders, payments, inventory, customer accounts, and…...

17+ hour, 7+ min ago   (1567+ words) The original pitch usually sounds fantastic. Teams can deploy independently, services can scale separately, and developers no longer need to understand the entire application. Management hears faster delivery. Engineers hear architectural freedom. Everyone approves the migration, and the first architecture…...

17+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1586+ words) The usual excuse is that production traffic is unpredictable. Sometimes that’s true. But a surprising number of Spring Boot production failures come from behavior that was entirely predictable if somebody had bothered to examine transaction boundaries, connection pools, concurrency, and…...