The Microservice Weekly #156— November 22.

A weekly newsletter with the best articles on microservices. Hand-curated by the engineers of RisingStack.

Overload control for Scaling WeChat Microservices

There are two reasons to love this paper. First off, we get some insights into the backend that powers WeChat; and secondly the authors share the design of the battle hardened overload control system DAGOR that has been in production at WeChat for five years.

Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices_Overload control for scaling WeChat microservices Zhou et al., SoCC'18 There are two reasons to love this paper. First…_blog.acolyer.org

The Human Side of Microservices

If different teams don’t have stable, direct communication channels, the software they produce will suffer. The five key properties crucial for a successful microservices implementation are zero-configuration, auto-discovery, high redundancy, self-healing, and fault tolerance.

The Human Side of Microservices_A microservices architecture is a game changer for team communication, not a purely technical solution. If different…_www.infoq.com

Microservices and Test Automation

Can we really bring microservices to QA and test automation? You’d be surprised. This article explains how developers can integrate microservices into their automated testing procedures without too much trouble.

Microservices and test automation - JAXenter_© Shutterstock / SFIO CRACHO Microservices are a poster child for the thousands of organizations who want to build and…_jaxenter.com

The Microservices Workflow Automation Cheat Sheet

Your company might want to go for a microservice architecture and apply workflow automation.

The Microservice Workflow Automation Cheat Sheet_Your company might want to go for a microservice architecture and apply workflow automation. I do not go into the…_blog.bernd-ruecker.com

Join the Workshop: Designing Microservices Architectures — Berlin, December 3–4.

During the course of these two days, we will cover a high-level architectural overview of what is needed to design, develop and maintain an application built with microservices.

Designing Microservice Architectures - Berlin_Two days of training to master microservices. _ Delivered by the expert instructors of RisingStack. Peter Czibik, Tamas…_ti.to

Case Study: Serving Millions of Users in Real-Time with Node.js & Microservices

In this article we share the story of how we fixed a nasty bottleneck in one of our clients’ large-scale Microservices infrastructure. As the result of our work, the product became able to serve 1000s of requests per second.

Serving Millions of Users in Real-Time with Node.js & Microservices | @RisingStack_In this article we share the story of how we fixed a nasty bottleneck in one of our clients' large-scale Microservices…_blog.risingstack.com

Go Microservices with Go kit: Introduction

Go kit fills a gap in the Go ecosystem by providing a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices, which also encourages you embrace good design principles for individual services in your distributed systems.

Go Microservices with Go kit: Introduction_In this post, I will give an introduction to Go kit, a toolkit for building microservices in Go. This post is an…_medium.com

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