As a development team, our goal is to deliver software that solves business problems. The business’ goal is to provide value to the customers as quickly as possible. “Monolith to microservices” is not a business goal. Business stakeholders don't care about architecture choices. They care if their customers…
Is Kafka or RabbitMQ the right messaging tool for you?
In a previous post [https://aradhye.com/how-integration-patterns-impact-your-microservices-architecture/] on microservices integration patterns, we talked briefly about messaging. Messaging comes with many options and patterns, and one of the most critical decisions you’ll make is choosing between message brokers. RabbitMQ and Kafka are lead options, seen as representing queueing and…
How to Optimize Your Cloud Infrastructure: An Overview Of Well-Architected Framework
Are you familiar with the Well-Architected Framework (WAF)? It's an essential tool for ensuring that your cloud computing infrastructure is secure, efficient, reliable, and cost-effective. Neglecting to use of the WAF can result in a range of issues,…
Are you ready for microservices? Pt 2: The 6 preparedness factors
In part 1 of our microservices readiness series [https://aradhye.com/are-you-ready-for-microservices-pt-1-need-alternatives-and-ability/] , we looked at how we determine if microservices is actually the right route for you. Once you’ve identified an actual need, ruled out alternative options as insufficient,…
AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP: From quandary to cloud migration
Cloud adoption is happening at a rapid pace these days. With a global pandemic raging, the cloud is only gaining more steam. Disasters always drive home the urgency of readiness and responsiveness. One of our clients experienced this firsthand during…
Healthy and easy taco chicken bowl
I started cooking out of necessity as a student away from home. I got tired of eating crappy food and decided to do it myself. I found excitement in creating flavors that I like. It gives me the same kicks…
Dealing with Parsing changes in .NETCORE 3.1
I was working on a feature to migrate Totem [https://github.com/HeadspringLabs/Totem] to the latest .NETCORE framework upgrade. I was upgrading it to 3.1 version from 2.1. I expected some breaking changes. Microsoft has done a…