The history and origins of microservices are a continuing effort to provide better communication between different platforms, greater simplicity, and more user-friendly systems. Microservices are typically thought of as a software development technique which organizes an application as a group of loosely coupled services. It is, however, any kind of small service which interacts with […]
Serverless Computing Use Cases
The uniqueness of serverless computing is its ability to survive without the presence of physical machines and systems software. In the serverless computing world, the client subscribes to a set of services including special “APIs and web services” that software developers can use to quickly build useful and scalable architectures for on-demand computing services. Serverless […]
The Importance of Anomaly Detection for Service Mesh Monitoring
Click to learn more about author Yuval Dror. Many companies today have adopted the new norm of rapid iteration in software development and now live by Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto, “Move fast and break things.” This mentality has led to the growth in popularity of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to software design. In particular, […]
Five Trends in Data and Software Development to Ensure Data-Driven Flexibility and Success
Click to learn more about author Jeff Keyes. Businesses across multiple industries and sectors are finding themselves delivering more and more software releases at a greater rate than ever before. There is now more technology in existence that requires updates to be rolled out continuously – and at very short notice should a complex issue […]
Data Management and the IT World: New Year’s Resolutions
Click to learn more about author Amanda Regnerus. By this point in February, everyone’s already made – and possibly broken – their New Year’s resolutions. Eating healthier, getting more sleep and exercising are commonplace resolutions, but did you make any IT-related resolutions this year? While budgets and annual plans may already be in place, it’s […]
Smart Data Governance: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]
Tech Primer: Microservices
Click to learn more about author Kong Yang. Enterprise applications are focusing more on giving customers the best possible end-user experience. As such, lightweight, scalable, and cost-effective technologies, like Functions as a Service (FaaS), microservices, and containers have stepped in to help. In this tech primer, I’ll discuss the role that microservices play in helping […]