Google and IBM announce Istio – easily secure and manage microservices

Post by gegtik » Thu, May 25, 2017, 10:00 PM UTC

graycat wrote: post #114

gegtik wrote: post #105

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There's some reading here https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microservice&sort=byPopularity...

Good. Maybe the OP should have given the reference. My main interest here is not microservices but just to tell the HN and computing community to be much more careful with undefined terminology and acronyms. Here we now have some good descriptions and references on microservices . Good. My main point is that articles on computing need to have, gee, call them links , to explain jargon and acronyms, to explain stuff no…

Post by parasubvert » Fri, May 26, 2017, 4:11 AM UTC

tannhaeuser wrote: post #116

parasubvert wrote: post #35

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The REST architecture always included the possibility of gateways and proxies in the end-to-end communication path to delegate shared responsibilities out of the user agent or origin server. This balances the need for centralized admin of some things and decentralized deployment of other things. Most microservices systems, even if they're not using HTTP in favor of something like gRPC, Kafka, or Rabbit, are taking a…

For me "SOA" doesn't imply "an ESB" in the way you seem to understand the term, and even though I've actually worked with Sonic MQ/ESB which brought the name to the scene, I still don't know what people really mean when speaking about "an ESB". From a developer perspective, service-oriented just means that you're offering/accessing functionality via a well-defined app-specific network protocol interface with a standa…