Let’s build enterprise platforms with microservices using NATS Just released! It is a great and humble feeling to release my very first book “Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS” on 19th November 2021 (first edition). You can read it through Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, Packt, and other distributors worldwide. Why another microservices book? I hear you! Why…

How to use open source tools to implement observability for microservices Introduction One of the biggest challenges of distributed system maintenance is the troubleshooting when system fails. This challenge has been further complicated with the microservices architecture since it increases the distributed nature of the solution by design. Hence, it is…

Let’s build an OPD application with microservices Introduction Let’s imagine we have a web application that is developed for a hospital OPD (OutPatient Department). This is a standard Java based web application running on Tomcat. Everything was working fine until recently where there had many outages of the entire application due…

How to build microservices with first principles Microservices are becoming a commodity in the enterprise world. The reason being the agility and the modularity it brings to the software development and delivery process. It is not that difficult to getting started with the microservices since there are enough tools and…

How Choreo observability helps developers to build robust applications Introduction One major challenge of distributed systems is observability. If you are developing a system with 10s, 100s or 1000s of services, then implementing observability at each service so that any failure scenario can be troubleshooted is a tedious task. Developers need…

Let’s learn Choreo’s reusability features Introduction Developer productivity does not necessarily mean individual productivity of developers. It also means the collective productivity of the team. As an example, how many product releases a team achieves within a time period is a measure of developer productivity. Hence it is essential to make…

How to implement security and governance for your microservices with Choreo Introduction Enterprise application development has come a long way from the large monolithic applications to microservices-based, domain-driven applications with 10s, 100s, or even 1000s of independent services. When you have a distributed system, implementing shared functionality such as security, observability…

How Choreo allows both developers and citizen integrators to build applications Introduction One key factor when selecting a platform for enterprise software development is the skill levels of the developers and the availability of talent for the selected technology. This is where the argument of pro-code vs low-code comes into the…

How to use AI-assisted development tools to build great applications with Choreo Introduction Developers of today are on the move and they would love to develop code from wherever they go rather than worrying about moving all the IDEs, test tools, and other runtimes from machine to machine. That is the…