How to keep your microservices straight

Here is a post about… microservices and Docker, what else? With this post I want to illustrate the recent problems I have had at work to deal, on my local environment, with all the microservices that form part of our infrastructure. There is a lot of literature about microservices and the challenges of adapting Production environments to …

Unveiling blocking operations

Background Developing an application following the reactive principles can be quite challenging, specially when working with third party libraries, as these may not be fit for purpose, i.e. blocking operations. In such cases, the first challenge is to find the blocking operation and the second to confine it so that it does not affect the rest of the …