Microservices has been a buzzword in software engineering recently. Everyone wants to build their application around Microservices architecture. Before you jump onto the bandwagon, let’s do a critical review of Microservices. We will look at the cases where it is appropriate along with advantages and disadvantages. Before we proceed let us look at how to…
While there are numerous advantages of deploying on the cloud, there are no guarantees that the cloud platform services will respond successfully every time. In a cloud environment periodic transient failures should be expected. The approach should be to minimize the impact of such failures on the application execution by anticipating and proactively handling failures.…
In the previous post, we covered the benefits of moving to the cloud for scale. In this post, we will look at some best practices to build applications for the cloud. 1. Use messaging to decouple components One of the important principles of scalable application design is to implement asynchronous communication between components. To start…
A friend of mine tells me a story repeatedly. Back in 2003/4, he co-wrote an online news aggregation web app when RSS feeds were first taking off. The app had every social news application feature that you could think of. Imagine Digg + StumbleUpon + Google News all in one (and in 2003 !). Things…
In today’s world, it is imperative to have a strategy for consumers on smartphones and tablets. The statistics speak for themselves: In 2012, a study found that 22% of web content was being consumed by smartphones and tablets. Two short years later, the figure stands at around 56%. The internet is full of statistics about…
