Web Services

Custom ErrorHandlers and Lagom

Hello everyone,

it’s been quite a while now since I started working on Lagom(java) and it was only recently when I came across a scenario wherein I was required to override the ErrorHandler provided by Play in my Lagom microservice. As you all…

Introduction to Consul (Part-1)

In this blog, we are going to discuss an amazing tool used for service discovery and configuring services using Consul.

Hold on a second!! There must be some questions in your mind:

1. Aren’t there so many tools already doing…

Fault Handling in Apigee

Hi all,

In my previous blogs on APIGEE we:

1. Went through the basic introduction of Apigee.
2. Went through the main policies and how to apply them on our proxies.
3. Saw how to extract out a…

Do you know Akka-HTTP Cache?

Today we are to going to talk about a very important aspect of reactive web applications development. It’s not from the alien world, we always talk about it but we rarely want to deal with it. It’s Cache. In today’s mammoth scalable architecture, we are mostly surrounded by big…

Quick Start with Finagle

Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. It implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency. Most of Finagle’s code is protocol agnostic, simplifying the…

“Why do you always choose Microservices over me?” said the Monolithic architecture

Ever wondered why do companies like Apple, eBay and Netflix care so much about microservices? What makes this simple architecture so special that it is being hyped so much? Is it worth the…

Lagom HeaderServiceCall: What, Why and How?

For those of you who are already familiar with Lagom services, this blog post should be a breeze, and you can skip directly to Section B, where the primary focus is to differentiate between three possible ways to implement a service call in Lagom. And…

Introduction to GraphQL — A Query Language for APIs

GraphQL is an API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. It was created by Facebook in 2012 and was open-sourced in 2015 and is now maintained by a large community of companies and individuals…

Finatra-swagger: Making the api documentation awesome and easy

Apart from speed, high-performance, fault-tolerance and concurrency, one more most important feature for an api is a clean, precise, interactive and user friendly documentation. Documentation plays a very important role in…

Routing DSL in Akka HTTP

In this blog we’ll be discussing about the Routing DSl provided by Akka HTTP High level Server Side API.

Akka HTTP provides a very flexible “Routing DSL” for elegantly defining RESTful web services. It picks up where the low-level API leaves off and offers…