Years ago, I used average latency on every dashboard and every alarm. That is, until I woke up to the problems of average latencies along with everybody else in the industry: When the dataset is small it can be easily skewed by a small number of outliers. When the dataset is large it can hide …
Hello, just a quick note to tell you that recording of my keynote at ServerlessDays TLV is now live! In this talk, I looked at a number of important lessons we learnt from the Microservices world and how they are still relevant to us as move to Serverless, and we can apply past learnings and …
Video and slides for my talk “applying best parts of Microservices to Serverless” Read More »
This talk by Richard Rodger (of nearForm) was my favourite at this year’s CodeMotion conference in Rome, where he talked about why we need to change the way we think about monitoring when it comes to measuring micro-services. TL; DR Identify invariants in your system and use them to measure the health of your …
CodeMotion 15–Takeaways from “Measuring micro-services” Read More »
One of my key takeaways from Tammer Saleh’s microservices anti-patterns talk at CraftConf is that we need to record correlation IDs to help us debug microservices. Why do we need Correlation IDs? Suppose a user request comes in and after various aspects of the request has been handled by several services something goes wrong. …
A consistent approach to track correlation IDs through microservices Read More »
This is another good talk on micro-services at CraftConf, where Tammer Saleh talks about common antipatterns with micro-services and some of the ways you can avoid them. Personally I think it’s great that both Tammer and Adrian have spent a lot of time talking about challenges with micro-services at CraftConf. There has been so much …
CraftConf 15–Takeaways from “Microservice AntiPatterns” Read More »
There were a couple of micro-services related talks at this year’s edition of CraftConf. The first was by Adrian Trenaman of Gilt, who talked about their journey from a monolithic architecture to micro-services, and from self-managed datacentres to the cloud. From Monolith to Micro-Services They started off with a Ruby on Rails monolithic architecture …
CraftConf 15–Takeaways from “Scaling micro-services at Gilt” Read More »
Day three of QCon London was a treat, with full day tracks on architecture and microservices, it presented some nice challenges of what to see during the day. My favourite talk of the day was Randy Shoup’s Service Architectures at Scale, Lessons from Google and eBay. Randy kicked off the session by identifying a …
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