Microservice architecture has become a widely adopted approach for building scalable and maintainable systems. However, one of the most complex decisions when implementing this...

Microservices can communicate synchronously and asynchronously. These are the main group of communication means for microservices. Lest dig in to unwrap, what does it mean.

You want to scale your microservice, when the load exceeds the available resources. Resources can be CPU, RAM, database throughput, workers pool. I will describe two common...

Domain driven design (DDD) is a methodology for designing software with a focus on the domain. DDD is one of the main practices used in the microservices development. I'll cover 3...

CAP abbreviation means: Consistency, Availability and Partitioning tolerance. Theorem states, that distributed data store can have two of three guarantees:

Transactions in microservices are not possible, because of the distributed nature of microservices. Though you can implement compensation mechanisms to handle failures in multiple...

patterns by Sam Newman from the book Microservices 2nd edition