Tag: microservices

GraphQL with Micronaut

Reading Time: 6 minutes GraphQL is an open-source query language that is getting a lot of popularity in the last years and brings some new ways to access information. Because of that, GraphQL is gaining traction among developers due to its flexibility to query and retrieve data. Together with the Micronaut Framework, Software Engineers can deliver value fast and …

Implementing Kafka topic consumption in Micronaut

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Apache Kafka is one of the most used open-source distributed event streaming platforms when we talk about event-driven microservices architecture. This system brings great features, such as scalability handling, data transformation, and fault-tolerance, among others, that make Apache Kafka so popular for infrastructure, architecture, and developer teams. Micronaut is a modern Java framework, with a …

Talking about microservices at Micronaut Podcast 017

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m very pleased to let you know that I had the opportunity to participate in the Micronaut Podcast #017. During this conversation, Sergio del Amo and I, went a bit about how the Micronaut framework is being used at Nexthink to implement microservices in an event-driven platform and talked about the Micronaut community, the usage …

GraalVM and Micronaut – Hello World

Reading Time: 6 minutes The GraalVM is one of those technologies that are getting interest in the Cloud Native world during the last couple of years. It comes to solve some key challenges when we have to develop services into the Cloud. Moreover, and keeping the context about fast and cloud-oriented software development, we have the modern Java framework …

Multi-tenant Feature Flag Manager

Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve been searching on the Internet for some already builtin Feature Flag Manager for multi-tenant systems, with not much luck. There are some companies and products that offer Feature Flag as a Service (let’s call it like that), which permits managing this contraption for your microservice architecture, but unsure about if they support multi-tenancy. In …

Auto-Scaling No Jutsu

Reading Time: 6 minutes You knew that could happen… it’s part of life and shit happens. Your precious distributed system has been deployed on Monday for the first time in the production environment, with real traffic, brilliant!, all good so far… and on Friday evening, “that” happened. The system starts to raise HTTP 500 status code, just dropping requests …