Load balancing is one of the core concepts required for building reliable distributed systems.
However, there is a lot of confusion on what it really is and most of the related information is not up-to-date. Take a look at this article to get a great overview about all the related concepts!
#architecture #middle #senior
https://blog.envoyproxy.io/introduction-to-modern-network-load-balancing-and-proxying-a57f6ff80236

Microservices for Java Developers: Performance and Load Testing
These days numerous frameworks and libraries make it is pretty easy to get from literally nothing to a full-fledged running application or service in a matter of hours. However, the decisions which frameworks make on your behalf (often called “sensitive defaults”) are far from being optimal (or even sufficient) in the context of the specific application or service.
In this tutorial you will get a great overview about performance and load testing, focusing on the tools to help you with achieving your goals and also highlight the typical areas of the application to tune.
#performance #testing #microservices #architecture #tools #middle #senior
https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2019/02/microservices-for-java-developers-performance-and-load-testing.html

How Do We Handle Failures in Microservices?
Dalia Borker explores the use of caching frameworks to improve resilience and performance in enterprise microservices systems with Redis, Pivotal Cloud Cache, and Hazelcast.
#microservices #architecture #redis #spring #hazelcast #middle #senior
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/failure-cache-redis-pcc-hazelcast

The Open-Closed Principle at an Architectural Level
If you are familiar with the SOLID principles for class design in OOP and if you have ever wondered if you can use them, for example the Open-Closed Principle, when designing the architecture of a system. The Open-Closed Principle, with microservices? Madness! Well, maybe not. Let's dive into it and check it out.
#architecture #middle #senior
https://dzone.com/articles/the-open-closed-principle-at-an-architectural-leve

Designing Event Driven Services
This is an amazing series of articles on how to deal with consistency in distributed systems, the right way. Don’t miss it.
Part 1: The Data Dichotomy: Rethinking the Way We Treat Data and Services
Part 2: Build Services on a Backbone of Events
Part 3: Using Apache Kafka for Service Architectures
Part 4: Chain Services with Exactly Once Guarantees
Part 5: Messaging as the Single Source of Truth
Part 6: Leveraging the Power of a Database Unbundled
Part 7: Building a Microservices Ecosystem with Kafka Streams and KSQL
#java #architecture #senior

Microservices Anti-Patterns
In this post, a developer talks about the microservices antipatterns that he's seen while working with clients of all sizes.
https://dzone.com/articles/microservices-anti-patterns
#microservices #architecture #senior

Immutable Collections In Java – Not Now, Not Ever
In JDK terminology, immutable and unmodifiable have shifted over the last few years. At first, the term immutable was used for the collections returned by Java 9’s collection factory methods. But will a method that prints all elements in an immutable collection always have the same output? Yes? No? What’s An Immutable Collection? Is immutability a feature? Can Unmodifiable And Immutable Collections Be Retrofitted? Find out now!
#java #jvm #jdk #architecture #middle
https://blog.codefx.org/java/immutable-collections-in-java/