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Writing microservices is not only using frameworks, but using patterns like Circuit Breakers and Timeouts to secure communication between services. See the concepts and how they can be used together.

Docker vs Kubernetes: Is Docker dead? Can you still use Docker Swarm or should you jump straight to Kubernetes? Find the best solution.

Writing software systems is easier than ever before. Resilient and fault tolerant systems, however, are still tricky. The major factor to keep in mind, to embrace that failures can and will happen. Re

Are your observability tools as clunky as a hybrid DVD-VHS player? It's time to upgrade to a best-in-breed solution for handling your log management and monitoring.

ExaVaults customers rely heavily on a consistently stable service for their business-critical transactions. In this blog post, ExaVault’s Head of Engineering will walk you through how they achie

GraphQL provides an efficient and flexible approach to query or mutate data off of a Web API. Therefore GraphQL builds on the foundation of HTTP transport, however, instead of using multiple endpoints

Discover how to do canary testing with Istio and get immediate feedback with Instana. Enabling CI/CD speed while maintaining service quality.

Deploying new software multiple times a day AND maintaining high quality is a difficult task. Find out how to achieve this goal with consistency.

Learn how the proper caching strategy and implementation can help create more scalable and robust microservice applications. #6 in our blog series on scaling microservice applications.