Have a safe microservice journey!
An architecture needs to bend, not break, as new innovations, best practices, and needs emerge. In this post, I’ll explore the broader landscape we
Getting to know Anypoint Visualizer
Anypoint Visualizer is a graphical visualization that provides a high-level view of your application network. It automatically organizes APIs, Mule applications, and third-party systems
Microservices on rails
In the intro to this blog series, I promised to reconcile the apparent incongruence of strategic business objectives (move fast) with traditional IT must
API interaction types in a microservice architecture: queries, commands, and events
One of the debates that’s been smoldering since the microservices movement began is how microservices should communicate with one another. (more…)
The many flavors of API coordination
With the increasingly collaborative scenarios in which APIs are used, as well as the growing maturity and scale of microservice architectures, the idea of
The locomotive: technological capabilities for microservices
We’ve got the engineer, the conductor, the brakeman, and all of the commuters (business people) on the train – we’re almost ready to go.
The third rail: putting microservices in context
Being deliberate about the desired outcomes of the architecture helps put into context the decisions to be made both technically and organizationally. This entry
Top 5 blog posts of February 2019
Despite it being the shortest month of the year, February was packed with top-performing content, from microservices, API ownership, and beyond. To provide you
Getting on track with microservices
As enterprise IT seeks greater speed and agility through the adoption of a microservice architecture, they find this new paradigm can collide with long-established
How microservices enable organizational agility
The big don’t eat the small, the fast eat the slow. In today's hyper-competitive digital economy, organizations succeed or fail based on their agility: