Businesses use APIs to connect services and to transfer data. Broken or hacked APIs are behind data breaches.
They expose sensitive medical, financial, and personal data for public consumption. That said, not all data is the same nor should be protected in the same way. How you approach API security will depend on what kind of data is being transferred.
Mature deployment practices are crucial to building reliable and stable microservices.
Unlike a monolithic application, where you can optimize deployment for a single use case, microservice deployment practices need to scale to multiple services, written in different languages, each with their own dependencies.
Reduce downtime and solve customer-impacting issues faster with an integrated observability platform.
Observability is the activities that involve measuring, collecting, and analyzing various diagnostics signals from a system. These signals may include metrics, traces, logs, events, profiles and more. In monolithic systems, the scope is a single process.
The process of transforming a monolithic application into microservices is a form of application modernization. That is something that developers have been doing for decades. As a result, there are some ideas that we can reuse when refactoring an application into microservices. One strategy to not use is the “Big Bang” rewrite.
That is when you focus all your development efforts on building a new microservices-based application from scratch. Although it sounds appealing, it is extremely risky and will likely end in failure. As Martin Fowler reportedly said, “the only thing a Big Bang rewrite guarantees is a Big Bang!”