Posts tagged with microservices

• Automatically upgrade parent pom

  Feb 16, 2019

  TL;DR: I wrote a script that discovers git repositories with an outdated parent pom and then it creates a pull request on each repository to set the parent pom version to latest and greatest.

• YAML schema validation with Maven

  Nov 28, 2018

  Sometimes it feels we’re reinventing the wheel, but with different names. Back in the days, XML was the cool thing. We had XPath as a query language. We had XSLT to transform XML documents into different shapes. We had XSD to validate the schema of XML. We had code generation and validation. We could generate web service clients and servers with WSDL.

• API Style Guide

  Nov 17, 2018

  Using a microservice architecture allows development teams to work separately, delivering work faster and focusing on a specific part of the business domain. Working independently means that developers are free to make their own choices. While that’s great, there’s the risk of building the tower of Babel.

• Merging Swagger files

  Oct 28, 2018

  Consider the following scenario. You have a few microservices and they’re all developed independently: they don’t share code, they don’t share data and they don’t share schema. They’re all exposing their own REST API. To make things a bit simple, their API is defined in a swagger file.

• Keeping it simple with microservices communication

  Apr 29, 2017

  The term microservice has been getting a lot of hype and attention. I have to admit that I fail to understand what’s the big deal about it. The best practices about microservices are similar to the ones we should apply to everyday software design. Avoid tight coupling. Single responsibility principle. Keeping things simple. Even those principles go back to the old Unix mantra of doing one job and doing it well (and that’s from 1978). And even that could in turn be labelled just “common sense”.