Native to the cloud

Cloud’s biggest breakthrough wasn’t actually being a cloud. Although it might seem that putting computing in a metaphorical cloud that you could rent through the interface made a whole difference; it made it resilient, and made managing all the aspects of infrastructure and resilience easy, making its guarantee of availability something that new generations of engineers and some of us ancient folk take for granted. Cloud did a good job of convincing its consumers that actual hardware machines do not exist.

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Monitoring data flows in a microservice system

To provide the highest possible quality of service, you have to keep a close eye on data flows in your app. This is something that, in most cases, requires you to set up the metrics of your code well and set up good monitoring on these metrics.

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