In this brave new world of distributed systems, we are entrusted with keeping the infrastructure up and running.The source of the challenge is to monitor the services themselves and the space in between. We face non-determinism, sometimes we can’t tell if our system is up, down, or partially working, and every failure is a taskContinue reading “Building resilient Distributed Systems at scale”
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Data consistency across Microservices
We were told a monolith is evil and microservices are the answer. What nobody told us is that microservices come with many pain points deriving from its distributed nature. In the past, we built an application connected to one database where normalized data was queried using “joins”. Then came: big data, big traffic and withContinue reading “Data consistency across Microservices”
Denise Schlesinger 