Cloud, Container, Programming, Database, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, DevOps, Software Architecture, Software Development, Web, App, Batch, Streaming, Low Code, No Code, API — In only a few days, we will say goodbye to 2021 and welcome a new year: 2022. After the disastrous, pandemic-hit 2020, 2021 was a year of resiliency and fight-back for humanity. Thanks to technological advancements, countries were able to vaccinate people en masse. For the Software Development and IT…

Microservice Architecture, Database per Microservice, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Saga, BFF, API Gateway, Strangler, Circuit Breaker, Externalize Configuration, Consumer-Driven Contract Testing — Tackling complexity in large Software Systems was always a daunting task since the early days of Software development (1960's). Over the years, Software Engineers and Architects made many attempts to tackle the complexities of Software Systems: Modularity and Information Hiding by David Parnas (1972), Separation of Concern by Edsger W…

A step-by-step guide to using gRPC for Java-based Microservice to Microservice communication, and performance comparison with RESTful API — In modern cloud-native software development, microservices are arguably the most widely used architectural pattern. To learn more about it, read the previous article Microservices 101: Understanding the architecture. If you want to dive into the microservice architecture design patterns, you can read my article Microservice Architecture and its 10 Most…

Why using Python everywhere will do more harm than good — There was very little fanfare when Guido von Rossum released Python more than three decades ago. Released four years later, Java got a lot more limelight and ruled as the most dominant programming language for the next one and half decades. Python remained under the radar for a long time…

Bringing Java Microservices into Production with Custom Domain, HTTPS, Logging, Monitoring using AWS Cloud In recent years, Java is not always considered the preferred programming language for the Cloud. Contrary to the popular belief, you can build and deploy production-grade enterprise application on the Public Cloud using Java. I am…

A collection of GitHub repositories to improve your development skill and boost your career — When GitHub was founded in 2008, its primary goal was to host Open Source projects using the distributed version control system Git. Over the next 13 years, GitHub has evolved the central place to host open-source projects and share resources among the developer community. …

Take Deployment by the Horns! In recent years, Java is not always considered the preferred programming language for the Cloud. Contrary to the popular belief, you can build and deploy production-grade enterprise application on the Public Cloud using Java. I am writing this article series to show how to build and deploy Java Micro services…

Preparation is Half the Battle! — In recent years, Java is not always considered the preferred programming language for the Cloud. Contrary to the popular belief, you can build and deploy production-grade enterprise application on the Public Cloud using Java. I am writing this article series to show how to build and deploy Java Micro services…

Amazon DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, Azure SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon Redshift — In 2012, Amazon released the first cloud database DynamoDB and changed the database landscape forever. Since then, cloud databases have experienced a meteoric rise in terms of adoption and innovation. As the whole Software development industry moves towards cloud-native development, cloud databases will be increasingly more important in the coming…