Multi-host Docker network without Swarm
Docker has several types of networks, but one of them is particularly interesting. Overlay network can span across hosts boundaries, so your web application container …
Tag: communication
Highly available Kafka cluster in Docker
Up until now we’ve been experimenting with Apache Kafka, a tool build with cluster and high availability in mind, but using exactly one host and availability settings …
“Hello world” with Apache Kafka
So it’s time to send some data bits through Apache Kafka. But first, as usual, we need to install it first. Installing Kafka is so …
Building RabbitMQ Cluster
As I promised last time, it’s time to check out RabbitMQ feature we can consider advanced – clustering. RabbitMQ cluster is a set of individual …
Quick intro to RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ is an example of full blown Message Queue that somehow remained simple to use. Unlike ZeroMQ, which is embeddable into the services that use it, RabbitMQ …
Using ZeroMQ with Docker
Last time we built three client-server Node.js apps that were talking to each other using ZeroMQ. However, running both client and server on localhost is a little bit lame. Let’s …
Inter-service messaging with ZeroMQ and Node.js
ZeroMQ is small, fast and very easy to use messaging library, which works equally well both within the same process and over the network. Despite being written …
Asynchronous communication with message queue
In previous posts I mentioned ‘microservice communication’ quite often, but never actually explained how exactly that happens. Because of services isolation, choices of transport are …