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The Evolution of Observability

The Evolution of Observability

What is Observability? Observability's origin story starts in control theory. Control theory is a field of engineering and mathematics that deals with understanding and influencing dynamic systems to achieve desired outcomes. Control theory highlights the importance of determining a system's internal state by observing its outputs.

Evaluating an Asynchronous Processing Design

Evaluating an Asynchronous Processing Design

I was recently asked to provide feedback on an implementation designed to decouple accepting requests in a service from processing them. Initially, I intended to provide direct feedback, but I realized this would be an excellent topic for a blog post. Overview The diagram above illustrates a cut-down version of

Scalability and SOA — Part 2 (Event-Driven SOA)

Scalability and SOA — Part 2 (Event-Driven SOA)

In the previous post in this series, I wrote about scaling up vs out, why we chose scaling-out and why layered service models are not the answer. In this post, I will delve deeper into vertical services and how they help with scaling out strategies. Services in Service-Oriented Architectures If

Scalability and SOA - Part 1

Scalability and SOA - Part 1

In this series of posts, I will discuss the challenges I faced developing a highly scalable and highly available SaaS product using a Service-Oriented Architecture. The first question you might want to ask yourself when designing a scalable system is whether to scale out or up. When scaling up (vertical