Using Identity Governance and Azure Functions To Build a Self-Service Application Access Management Solution - Part 2
Aug 13, 2022 · 6 min read
In this series: Creating an authenticated web application and using Azure Functions to invite guest users to the organization Creating an access package and redeeming it In the last article, we created an application that can be accessed only by the users assigned to it. We also used Azure Functions and Microsoft Graph API to invite guest users to the organization. However, at this point, the guest user can not access the application, and manually adding every new user to the application and periodically reviewing their access is a cumbersome process.
Using Identity Governance and Azure Functions To Build a Self-Service Application Access Management Solution - Part 1
Aug 06, 2022 · 9 min read
In this series: Creating an authenticated web application and using Azure Functions to invite guest users to the organization Creating an access package and redeeming it Azure Active Directory serves two primary use cases: It enables you to grant users and applications access to your Azure resources in a secure and scalable manner. You can set up Azure AD as an authentication provider for your web applications so that only the desired Azure AD users can access your application.
Managing Applications in Kubernetes with the Carvel Kapp Controller
May 06, 2022 · 8 min read
Any typical enterprise-grade application deployed on Kubernetes comprises several API resources that need to be deployed together. For example, the WordPress application, which is one of the example applications available on the Kubernetes GitHub repository, includes: a wordpress frontend pod a wp-pv-claim persistent volume claim mounted to the frontend pod a wordpress-mysql MySQL database pod a mysql-pv-claim persistent volume claim mounted to the MySQL database pod two persistent volumes: wordpress-pv-1 and wordpress-pv-2 to serve the persistent volume claims services for the database and frontend pods Application (or app) is not a native construct in Kubernetes.
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OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations
May 02, 2022 · 14 min read
Many software developers can attest that some of the most significant issues in their applications arise from database performance. Though many developers prefer to use a relational database for enterprise applications, typical logging and monitoring solutions provide limited signals to detect database performance issues. Rooting out common bad practices such as chatty interactions between the application code and the database is non-trivial. As developers, we need to understand how our database is performing from the context of user transactions.
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OpenTelemetry in Action: Identifying Database Dependencies
May 01, 2022 · 12 min read
Microservices can help any organization achieve its goal of increasing agility by addressing critical factors such as improving team autonomy, reducing time to market, cost-effectively scaling for load, and avoiding complete outages of the applications. As organizations break their monolith applications into microservices, one of the major hurdles they encounter is identifying database dependencies. Database sharing can be a complex and time-consuming challenge to solve. Databases do not allow you to define what is shared and what is not.
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Practical Introduction to Kubernetes Autoscaling Tools with Linode Kubernetes Engine
Mar 06, 2022 · 16 min read
Your cloud infrastructure can scale in real time with your application without making a configuration change or writing a line of code. Autoscaling is the process of increasing or decreasing the capacity of application workloads without human intervention. When tuned correctly, autoscaling can reduce costs and engineering toil in maintaining the applications. The overall process of enabling autoscaling is simple. It begins with determining the set of metrics that can provide an indicator for when Kubernetes should scale the application capacity.
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Enhancing Istio Operations with Kong Istio Gateway
Feb 12, 2022 · 12 min read
If you’re a developer for a service-oriented application, routing requests between services can be overwhelming. This work may force you to focus on operational details that take you away from building great features for your customers. Fortunately, with Kong Istio Gateway, we can solve many inter-service networking concerns such as security, resiliency, observability, and traffic control with services-first networking policies. By offloading network-related problems to the service mesh, you can focus on building features that deliver business value.
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Minimizing Microservices Complexity with Reusable APIs
Sep 27, 2021 · 17 min read
Developers build modern enterprise applications on the orchestration of a complex network of microservices. Over time, as the number of applications and microservices increases, the complexity of the orchestration increases as well. Complexity in typical microservices architecture Reusable APIs address the problem of complexity by allowing multiple applications to rely on a few independent microservices that expose the data and functions of their domain. Why Should We Build Reusable APIs?
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Three Fundamental Components of a Reusable .NET Microservices Platform
Sep 26, 2021 · 9 min read
Development teams frequently need to build new microservices to either add new functionality or replace existing microservices. However, microservices must support some standard features such as providing insight into their health through logging, allowing monitoring, and following the organization’s security standards. A reusable microservices platform can help developers jumpstart the development process by providing reusable components that they can use to build new microservices. To implement a reusable microservices platform, you can use the sidecar pattern or build NuGet packages that are installed in every microservice.
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Versatile Events in Event Driven Architecture
Aug 12, 2021 · 10 min read
Simple applications rely on synchronous request-response protocols. It is one of the most common patterns we encounter every day in applications and websites where you press a button and expect a response. As the number of services increases, the number of synchronous interactions between them increases as well. In such a situation, the downtime of a single system also affects the availability of other systems. Synchronous interaction channels between services Google defines a set of principles and practices for attaining a high Service Level Agreement (SLA) by increasing the SLA of individual services.