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What Are Containers? A Simple Guide to Containerization and How Docker Works

Docker is awesome. I was late to the party and didn’t get hands-on until last year. But Docker has quickly become one of the favorite tools. It enables software developers to package, ship and run their applications anywhere without having to worry about setup or dependencies. Combined with Kubernetes, it becomes even more powerful for streamling cluster deployments and management. I digress. Back to Docker. Docker is loved by software developers and its adoption rate has been remarkable. So what exactly is Docker? It’s a platform for building, testing, deploying and publishing containerized applications. I say platform because Docker is a set of tools for managing all-things related to containers. Containers are at the heart of Docker so that’s what we’re going to explore in depth next. What is a Container? Containers provide a way to install and run your applications in isolated environments on a machine. Applications running inside a container are limited to resources (C...

Microservice integration patterns - Binary Consulting

The following question was recently asked on the team. We have an e-commerce application comprised of an order service where orders are placed, a billing service for taking payments, and a shipping service for delivering the order. We want to introduce a notification service to send emails, such as order confirmation. The confirmation email has a template, provided by marketing, and contains information about the order such as products purchased, delivery address, and payment information. How do I get the data contained in these separate services without too much coupling? I’ve taken an Amazon order confirmation email as an example and have highlighted the content provided by each of the four services named above within the email. Aggregating data from multiple autonomous services can be approached in many different ways. Driving our architectural choice is the understanding that an autonomous service is responsible for its own data and domain logic. We want services to fulfill ...

Design APIs like you design User Experience

Learn to design better APIs using concepts and processes which are used to design beautiful User Experiences What is User Experience? User Experience (UX) is the value that you provide to your users when they are using your product. It is a term that is mostly associated with beautiful looking User Interfaces. But, by principle, User Experience Design (UXD or UED) “is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction with the product.” Designers spend a decent amount of time to make sure that they make every interaction, every UI element as delightful as possible. Producing the best type of UX is mainly processes — the processes that Design/UX teams use to make sure that their design is valuable, desirable, and usable to the community. It is not just about providing a beautiful UI. They make sure that in the design process all stakeholders are involved so that there are no sudd...

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