Editor – This seven‑part series of articles is now complete: Introduction to Microservices Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway Building Microservices: Inter‑Process Communication in a Microservices Architecture Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture Event‑Driven Data Management for Microservices (this article) Choosing a Microservices Deployment Strategy Refactoring a Monolith into Microservices (this article) You can also download […]
With a poor economy and not many good job prospects in the near future, many people today are looking to create a home business on the Internet. To create a flourishing business, website creation is important. So brush up on what make a great website and get ready to design one. Users can navigate easier […]
The rise of the API economy has enabled organizations to deliver increasingly responsive and customized experiences, helping them meet consumer expectations, cut costs, and improve their overall efficiency. At the same time, the flexibility and speed that makes APIs so valuable has made API management (APIM) more critical than ever to companies that hope to […]
Usually, we’d start a blog post like this one rather light‑heartedly, but the mood of the times is undoubtedly somber, the reasons for that being too numerous to joke about. However, we hope you’re doing well – and again, we have some news to share. For starters, we at the NGINX Unit team believe that the term […]
When designing systems that enable secure authentication and authorization for API access, you must consider how your applications and users should authenticate themselves. In this article, we’ll compare three different ways to achieve this: API Keys, HTTP Basic Authentication, and OAuth. We’ll also highlight what the benefits and drawbacks are for each method. API Keys Using API keys […]
Authorization and authentication are often considered interchangeable. However, these systems do doing vastly different things. Understanding the differences between them is incredibly crucial for adequate security implementation. Authentication = Who are you? Authentication is essentially the practice of proving that you are who you say you are. Trust is hard to come by in any system. […]
Long ago, I built a web app for an enterprise (200k+ employees). Feedback on the web app prompted me to do an experiment. What would happen if I were to create a WhatsApp chatbot to solve the specific use case, instead of a web app? Would people like it better? Would it be more useful? But the […]
Business plans are a pivotal part of the strategic financial decision-making process. They help put thoughts down on paper, present market data to back up the rhetoric, and articulate the financial side of an argument. When it comes to business plans, it’s not only about the numbers; the narrative and the assumptions used to drive […]
While 83% of workers say remote work would make them happier with their jobs, not many people anticipated that the shift would happen as suddenly as it did. With companies around the world quickly transitioning their workforce to working from home, some employees will find it a challenge to make the switch. While designers may have dreamed of working in their […]
It is not hard to see that some people are struggling to handle errors, and some are even totally missing it. Handling errors properly means not only reducing the development time by finding bugs and errors easily but also developing a robust codebase for large-scale applications. In particular, Node.js developers sometimes find themselves working with not-so-clean code […]