Often, we come across software architectural components that are part of every system design and feel as though we don’t have much understanding of them. API Gateway and Load Balancer are a couple of examples that come to mind. Most people don’t have experience working with a load balancer or…

Bending the Clean Architecture Principles — Introduction Goals and objectives vary a lot depending on your organization's goals and constraints. When I was a consultant, I was essentially “outsourced” to help with a particular project for a short period of time. You get exposed to very diverse projects and different ways of doing things. Then you realize…

A history of authentication and how to solve authentication in a reusable way using sidecar containers in Kubernetes — As software engineers, we spend way too much time setting up authentication and debugging issues related to authentication. We have all been down one of those rabbit holes where our authentication method is not quite doing what we expect, and we lose days (and hair) scratching our heads!

Hello Everyone. Microservices communication is the heartbeat of any microservices architecture and designing them could make or break the system. There are just 3 ways of communication between the services i.e synchronous, asynchronous, and hybrid. There is a lot of confusion around this and hence I decided to write an…

Strategy Design pattern enables an algorithm’s behavior to be selected at runtime. The pattern · Defines a family of algorithms · Encapsulates each algorithm · Makes the algorithms interchangeable within that family. Below is the architecture of the strategy design pattern where the client will communicate with context. The context…

If you are developing on the JVM, your best choice is to use IntelliJ as your IDE. Here are some settings and plugins you can configure to improve your experience. Settings