Enterprise Integration for Beginners

Microservices architecture is not a silver bullet for all your enterprise IT system requirements. Some requirements come just after implementing a microservices architecture. Service Mesh and API Management are such mechanisms which works along with microservices to build a comprehensive microservices architecture. The below post explains how these 3 pillars can help you to build an effective microservices platform. https://medium.com/microservices-learning/microservices-service-mesh-and-api-management-7408c001fb31

Microservices architectures are becoming more and complex and challenging to maintain. Given the advantages it brings to the enterprise IT ecosystem, the complexity is out-numberes by the advantages. Service Mesh allows the enterprises to control communication amongst microservices as well as communications from external clients to the microservices. Istio is becoming more and more popular as a service mesh because it provides both data plane and control plane capabilities of a service mesh. The following medium post explains the Istio Service Mesh along with its usage. https://medium.com/microservices-learning/istio-service-mesh-pattern-61a2848704bf

Microservices architecture (aka MSA) is reaching a point where handling the complexity of the system has become vital to reap the benefits of the very same architecture brings into the table. Implementing microservices is not a big deal given the comprehensive set of frameworks available (like Spring Boot, DropWizard, NodeJs, MSF4J, etc.). The deployment of the microservices also well covered with containerized deployment tools like docker, kubernetes, Cloud Foundary, Open Shift, etc. The real challenge with the microservices type implemention is the inter-microservice communication. Now we have gone back to the age where we had the spaghetti deployment architecture where service to service communication happens in a point to point manner. Enterprise has come a long way from that position through ESB, API Gateways, Edge proxies, etc. Now it is not possible to go back to the same point in the history. This requirement of inter-microservice communication was not an afterthought. The ...