Many software developers and even authoritative voices in the software industry use the terms cloud native and microservices interchangeably. While studying with the excellent book Cloud Native Spring, I decided to dig deeper into the differences between those two approaches. The experienced Thomas Vitale emphasizes …

Today I finished reading and working through the awesome book Bootstrapping Microservices, by Ashley Davis. What I accomplished: I build the complete FlixTube application along the way. This helped me solidify my hands-on experience with a rich list of technologies: JavaScript Node.js Express Docker Docker Compose …

There are two communication styles in distributed systems: Direct, a.k.a. synchronous Indirect, a.k.a asynchronous Direct communication is used when a service wants to send a command to another, or when it wants to orchestrate a sequence of behaviors by multiple services, or when it needs to get an immediate response …