If you are familiar with the previous articles of this series (Introduction, Load balancing & Resumability), you have probably noticed that RSocket provides a low-level API. We can operate directly on the methods from the interaction model and without any constraints sends the frames back and forth. It gives us a lot of freedom and control, […]
Due to the high entry threshold, it is not that easy to start a journey with Cloud Native. Developing apps focused on reliability and performance, and meeting high SLAs can be challenging. Fortunately, there are tools like Istio which simplify our lives. In this article, we guide you through the steps needed to create CI/CD […]
This article is the second one of the mini-series which will help you to get familiar with RSocket – a new binary protocol which may revolutionize machine to machine communication in distributed systems. In the following paragraphs, we will discuss the load balancing problem in the cloud as well as we will present the resumability feature which helps to deal with […]
This article is the first one of the mini-series which will help you to get familiar with RSocket – a new binary protocol which may revolutionize machine-to-machine communication. In the following paragraphs, we discuss the problems of the distributed systems and explain how these issues may be solved with RSocket. We focus on the communication between microservices […]
Introduction Building cloud-native applications has become a direction in IT that has already been followed by companies like Facebook, Netflix or Amazon for years. The trend allows enterprises to develop and deploy apps more efficiently by means of cloud services and provides all sorts of run-time platform capabilities like scalability, performance and security. Thanks to […]
We witness how the world of IT constantly changes. Today, like never before, it is more often defined as “being THE business” rather than just “supporting the business”. In other words, the conventional application architectures and development methods are slowly becoming inadequate in this new world. Grape Up, playing a key role in the cloud […]