The lack of common infrastructure

In a typical Kubernetes environment, services related to tracing, load balancing, telemetry, routing logic, etc. are frequently used but are not shared. This means a microservices developer will have to write his own set of logic to enable shared functionalities.

At a recent Kubernetes meetup in Denver, [...]

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The risks of too many microservices

Microservices are known to provide certain benefits in terms of complex software systems. They allow for dividing such systems into independent modules that can be deployed, changed, and updated without affecting the entire system or one another. Microservices eliminate dependencies between development teams to certain [...]

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The need to “unlearn and learn again”

Digital transformation is affecting multiple industries and creating new challenges in finance.

Following the trend, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) decided to optimize the organization’s processes and services delivered. It is the largest bank in Canada, which has 16M+ customers and 80,000+ employees around [...]

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For a monolithic application—delivered as a single cohesive unit of code—it may take just 2–3 years to become an outdated “black box” that is hard to support and maintain. Over time, a major update may require redeployment of the entire system, while a single failure may turn into a disaster [...]

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A need for a multi-tenant cloud management solution

Recent Gartner research revealed that 55% percent of CIOs expect their enterprises to deliver more than half of their applications as SaaS—or manage them in a public cloud infrastructure—by 2020. Many other studies confirm that most of enterprises are already having a multi-cloud [...]

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Why Steeltoe

Steeltoe is an open-source project that can help developers to create .NET microservices on Cloud Foundry, providing access to Spring Cloud and NetflixOSS tools powering cloud-native Java apps.

In our previous post, we explained how to consume Spring Cloud / NetflixOSS services from a .NET Core app using Steeltoe. If [...]

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What is Steeltoe?

Steeltoe was built to simplify the adoption of microservices for .NET developers. It provides the access to the pool of Spring Cloud and NetflixOSS tools that power cloud-native Java apps. What is more, the new toolkit promises first-class integration with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).

It also simplifies step-by-step porting [...]

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We already have quite a few posts talking about the ins and outs of OpenWhisk. This promising open-source product for creating event-based microservices is available on IBM Bluemix as a service. At IBM InterConnect, Dr. Andreas Nauerz summarized OpenWhisk and told of a scenario where it may fit.

What is OpenWhisk?

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A new class of services and apps

Animesh Singh

At a recent meetup in Silicon Valley, Animesh Singh of IBM noted that we’re now in a world of cloud-native apps, written for use in cloud computing environments.

According to Animesh, some key things to keep in mind when writing cloud-native apps [...]

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JP Genovese, Altoros

Previously, we provided an introduction to OpenWhisk—a distributed service for managing microservices. It allows developers to upload event handlers to a cloud service, then registers those handlers to respond to events. At the Austin meetup, Juan Pablo (JP) Genovese of Altoros provided a deeper insight into [...]

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