Architecture (Page 2)

Ambassador pattern

An Ambassador sits between two services and negotiates.

An ambassador service is an out-of-process proxy facilitating communication with a distant service. It is colocated on the same host/cluster to improve performance.

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Microservices Anti-patterns

How not to build microservices

A selection of common mistakes found in the wild

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Bulkhead

Bulkheads are used on ships to prevent water from a hull breach from flooding the whole boat.

The Bulkhead pattern designs safe operation into applications to ensure that a single failure cannot cause the loss of the whole application.

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Gateways

Decomposed services need to look all joined up

Exposing multiple services out of a container cluster can cause issues and complexity as you scale out. The Gateway pattern uses a proxy to manage several complexities and performance improvements.

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Microservices

Minimise dependencies and promote scalability.

Microservices are a way to build applications used by some of the biggest sites and systems online, such as Netflix and Amazon. They let systems be updated safely and scale well. However, they are complex and require firm principles in place to work correctly.

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Strangler pattern

Replace refactored code with new microservices to migrate gradually.

Use this pattern to migrate functionality from an older app to a new one. This approach is typical for a monolith to a microservices migration; it works for any app.

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