Playing with a service mesh
I was looking for something new to play with the other day and somehow ended up with the thing called a service mesh. Pretty interesting …
Tag: distributed app
Dissecting Kubernetes example
Much to my surprise, starting from the last week Kubernetes became the part of my job description. It’s no longer something just interesting to try, I actually …
Using Consul for Service Discovery
Imagine your distributed app has two kinds of services: web and db. Both of them are replicated for higher availability, live on different hosts, go …
Using Consul Key-Value Store for Service Configuration
How do you usually configure an app? Over the decades our industry came up with multiple approaches, like providing command line arguments, various config files, registry 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 …
Quick intro to Apache Kafka
What is Apache Kafka Official definition of Apache Kafka is distributed streaming platform, which starts to make sense only after reading at least few chapters …
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 …