Microservice front-end
Microservice architecture has long been the de facto standard in the development of large and complex systems. It has a number of advantages: strict division into modules, weak connectivity, resistance to failures, gradual release of production and independent versioning of components. Often, when speaking of…
Automation: how to work with updates
I have been doing test automation for quite long time. And I know what pain sometimes deliver new versions of anything. They updated Xcode, released a new Selenium, came up with a new browser (special thanks to Microsoft for Edge and its driver), for some…
Microservices and reactive programming
When are microservices needed? In what cases does a monolithic application really need to be divided into several microservices? First, when there is an unbalanced use of resources in functional areas. For example, we have a group of API calls that perform computations that require…
Role of Kubernetes
What if we use Kubernetes? To begin with, this technology allows you to deploy a large number of microservices to different machines, manage them, do autoscaling, etc. However, there are many applications that allow you to control orchestration, for example, Puppet, CF engine, SaltStack, and…
Do you always need Docker, microservices and reactive programming?
In AppSoft, I work in two ways. In the first, I help people to repair systems that are broken in one way or another and for a variety of reasons. In the second, I help to design new systems so that they are not broken…
VCS and team development in action
What to store? [+] All source code files [+] All resources necessary for compilation [+] project compilation settings [-] project settings in the IDE [-] files compiled from source [-] executable files Deleting from index git rm filename A commit may contain changes to multiple…
Git and team development
Hello! If you came here, then you are interested in the question of how programmers work in a team. If before you worked only in solo, then it probably seems to you that working in a team is easier, because there are more hands and…
Writing an application on Spring Boot
We will write two applications that will exchange messages through Apache Kafka. The first message will be called kafka-server and will contain both the producer and the consumer. The second will be called kafka-tester, it is designed to make a microservice architecture. kafka-server For our…
Apache Kafka + Spring Boot: Hello, microservices
this post, we will write an application on Spring Boot 2 using Apache Kafka under Linux, from installing the JRE to a working microservice application. Colleagues from the front-end development department who saw the article complain that I am not explaining what Apache Kafka and…
Setting up a CD via gitlab
Once I thought about automating the deployment of my project. gitlab.com kindly provides all the tools for this, and of course I decided to use it by sorting out and writing a small deployment script. In this article, I share my experience with the community….