Month: February 2018

Load balancing is an integral component of any service oriented architecture. When deploying microservices, which can be thought of as a specialized subset of SOA, the need is even more apparent. Let’s say I have a service called Tim’s Petstore

“Did you write unit tests?” Well, uh, not exactly, because, you see… When I developed my first microservice, I was faced with this question. I struggled to explain why I hadn’t written unit tests. It’s a common programming adage–pragmatic application

It started as a regular day in the office. At my job, regularity implies that I sat down some time before 8:30. After that, there is rarely a predictable pattern of work, which is why being a DevOps Engineer is

Jim, Tom, and Joe study Computer Science together in college. After graduation, the friends part ways and go to work at three different tech companies. The companies vary in size, business segment, mission, and technology stack. Nonetheless, on the first

Sometimes production code blows up. Though rolling back to the previously tagged version is a common solution, it isn’t always the most appropriate. Certain situations demand a hotfix. In contrast to a rollback, a hotfix is a forward fix. It’s a modification to a live codebase,