There is no doubt that the Microservice architectural pattern is one of the popular patterns of this decade. This pattern has been embraced by a lot of highly efficient technology companies both small and large. But this pattern comes with some new challenges which were not there when monolithic applications…

This article covers the data consistency issues with a microservices architecture and one of the earlier approaches of how it got handled using distributed transactions. Transactions are essentials in every application and without transactions, there won’t be any guarantee of data consistency. A transaction needs to be Atomic, Consistent, Isolated…

Microservices is a pattern that has gained popularity in the last decade. There have been numerous articles/books/blogs/tutorials/videos/learning courses that describe it. In this article, I would like to go over the popular communication practices between the services that are followed in the industry. At a high level, there are 2…

This article describes how we could preserve the events in a microservice-based architecture. One of the major benefits of a microservices-based pattern is to scale up the number of receivers when the load increases thereby helping to improve the throughput of the application. However, this can result in challenges too…