Sometimes a good monolith is all you need — I know you’re here to virtually kick me in the teeth after reading the title, but hear me out for a second. In our industry we have these concepts of “best practices”, “ideal architectures”, “best programming languages”, but these are all absolute statements that are never true in real life…

No, you’re not, but let me explain — Microservices and APIs are two terms that we hear quite a lot in our careers. Especially so if you’re working on web development. Who hasn’t interacted or even created a REST API on their project? I bet you can throw a rock into a room filled with developers, and you’d…

Are you really using microservices for your application? Think again. — Disclaimer alert: this is going to be one of those purists articles that explain how you’re not doing what you think you’re doing simply because you don’t really know the full definition of what you think you’re doing. If you’re OK with that, then we can go on. Have you…

Using Redis’ features to generate a reactive data-flow — Redis is one of the most powerful and versatile pieces of technology I’ve come across. Sadly, most people only know it because it makes for a good caching solution. We need to fix that. In particular, I want to show you that you can create a reactive architecture having Redis…

Why I love these design patterns — After working for a while with Node.js I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no better tool to use when writing microservices. Of course, that is my opinion, completely biased by my preference for JavaScript as a language. But hey, even without me pushing my own opinion into your…

How do you get your services to talk to each other? — Microservices are fun, they allow for the creation of very scalable and efficient architectures. All major platforms take advantage of them because of this. There is no way to have a Netflix or Facebook or Instagram without the help of Microservices. However, splitting your business logic into smaller units and…

REST is not the answer to every API question — When talking about microservices, for a few years now that has meant HTTP REST APIs. Granted, some of them might’ve been half-done implementations that only picked some of the features from the REST standard. However, they were all aiming for a REST implementation anyway. And while REST is definitely a…