How a Service Mesh Simplifies Microservice Observability

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Service meshes and observability are hot topics within the microservices community. In this Trend Report, we’ll explore in detail how a service mesh, along with a good observability stack, can help us overcome some of the most pressing challenges that we face when working with microservices. 

Why Your Microservices Need GraphQL

While microservices offer tremendous benefits and help you stay agile, it’s important to get them right.

In this post, we are going to see how the nature of microservices makes choosing the right API layer even more important and how  GraphQL perfectly fits in it.

What is DevOps? A DevOps Tutorial in Plain English

DevOps… CI/CD… Docker… Kubernetes… I'm sure you've been bombarded with these words a lot the past year. Seems like the entire world is talking about it. The rate at which this segment is progressing, it won't be long before we reach the stage of NoOps.

Don’t worry. It’s okay to feel lost in the giant sea of tools and practices. It's about time we break down what DevOps really is.

How to Make Microservices Communicate

I’m sure you want to build scalable apps, right? Who doesn’t? If so, you must have come across the words “Cloud Native.” This approach is like an angel which can resolve most of your scaling challenges. So, what exactly is cloud native?

Cloud native is an approach used to build apps which can harness all the capabilities of the cloud.

REST to GraphQL in Minutes

With all the madness currently going in the API world with GraphQL, you might be wondering how to migrate your existing REST APIs to GraphQL without breaking anything. This guide will help you accomplish your REST to GraphQL mission without changing your codebase so that you can REST with GraphQL (pun intended)!

REST to GraphQL

Well, GraphQL advocates have done a great job in marketing GraphQL already. Respecting their efforts, I won’t be going into details, but provide a summary:

Build Your Own Google Firebase + Heroku on Kubernetes

Remember Heroku? I bet you do! I wouldn’t be surprised if your entire app is being powered by Heroku right now!

Heroku took the world by storm with its Platform-as-a-Service. Though it was originally for Ruby, they now have expanded to cover most of the languages. They have a ton of integrations and other managed server offerings.

FoundationDB: Future of the Database Landscape

Data is the new oil. And the oil well of the tech industry is a database. No matter what application or platform you are trying to build, you will definitely require a database.

There are tons of databases out there. Every week we hear about a new database to hit the open source world. In all this madness, have you ever wondered which database will dominate the industry? I have. And if you’re as excited as I am, you must be wondering what’s gonna come out on top. But before we get into that, let’s understand the current database landscape.