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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

How do I upgrade or evolve microservices? Which teams are going to run my system? The ability to maintain real-time data across a series of stateful, stream processing microservices is very powerful, but how do we make that state accessible? Audit logs: Each microservice will capture a security context (e.g.,

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture

Confluent

Rather, we apply different event planes to provide orthogonal aspects of system design such as core functionality, operations and instrumentation. Do I need to use a microservices framework? reactive microservices) and Lagom (an opinionated, reactive microservice framework). Event-driven architecture.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Virtually all modern software and applications built today are distributed systems of some sort, says Sam Newman , director at Sam Newman & Associates and author of Building Microservices. Even a monolithic application talking to a database is a distributed system, he says, “just a very simple one.”.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We’ll be working with microservices and serverless/functions-as-a-service in the cloud for a long time–and these are inherently concurrent systems. A backlash is only to be expected when software systems designed to maximize “engagement” end up spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. Serverless (a.k.a.

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Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

James Shore

A web application and microservice that performs ROT-13 encoding. To avoid manually constructing the entire dependency chain, use Parameterless Instantiation with Zero-Impact Instantiation. For example, an immutable Address class should be constructed with its street, city, and so forth. Find more examples here: Simple example.

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