#DevtoMicroservices

Abstract: How we turned "will it hold up?" into testable hypotheses using a deck of chaos experiments...

One endpoint whose cost grows with the caller's data and whose deadline is a constant. On three objects it looked fine. On an account with 366 children the answer came back at 20.26 s as a failure - and the work kept running for another 8.7 s and landed…

When I finished Phase 6 of my event-driven microservices platform, I updated the architecture...

Microservices make it easier to release and scale individual services, but they also create more HTTP...

Microservices make it easier to deploy services independently, but they also create more public entry...

If your gRPC .proto contracts live inside one service’s repo, your services are coupled — no matter what the architecture diagram says.

Every backend team learns the same lesson, usually at 3 AM: your service did not fail because of your...

Envoy Proxy is an open-source, high-performance edge and service proxy designed for modern...

A priority that was stored, correct and impossible to show, because on the wire the number 0 and the words 'not set' are the same thing. And a tie-break rule that held as a norm for 17 months without ever being specified - it was a property of an array's…

"We have microservices" is not a sizing input. Twelve services in one Compose file is a different job...

Flisk will happily sign tokens, migrate on boot, and answer on *.localhost. None of that is production. Here is the harness, and how it gets into your source.

Quick Answer Learn how to build high-availability load balancing for API gateways that...

When to split a system, how to keep data consistent across services, and how to avoid a distributed monolith.