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Observability Done Right: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for Effective System Monitoring

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  WHAT Observability is a concept that refers to the ability to gain insights into the behavior and performance of complex systems. In the context of software engineering, observability involves the collection, analysis, and visualization of data from software applications, infrastructure, and other components of a system. In the animal kingdom, observability plays a critical role in survival, allowing animals to monitor their surroundings, detect threats, and find food. Dolphins use echolocation to observe their surroundings. They emit high-frequency sounds that bounce off objects, allowing them to create a 3D map of their environment. Thanks for reading Knowledge Cafe! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribed WHY In today's era, architectures are becoming increasingly large, complex, and fast-paced due to the faster development and deployment of software by distributed teams with the help of DevOps, continuous delivery, and agile development methodo...
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Distributed Transaction in Spring Boot Microservices

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  Distributed transactions in microservices refer to transactions that involve multiple microservices, each handling a part of the transaction, and coordination is required to ensure the transaction’s atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) properties. Spring Boot provides several features to manage distributed transactions in a microservices architecture. Spring Boot can use either the 2PC or Saga pattern to manage distributed transactions, depending on the specific needs of the application. One way to implement 2PC in Spring Boot is to use the XA (eXtended Architecture) protocol, which allows multiple databases to participate in a single transaction. Spring Boot provides support for XA transactions through the Atomikos and Bitronix transaction managers, which can be used to coordinate transactions across multiple services. Another approach is to use the Saga pattern, which can be implemented in Spring Boot using the Spring Cloud framework. Spring Cloud provides a...
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Achieving Scalability with Spring Boot and Infrastructure Automation

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  Automation plays a critical role in application scalability. It helps to automate many manual processes that can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Steps to Achieve Infrastructure Automation of Spring boot application Here’s a step-by-step guide to do infrastructure automation for a Spring Boot application for scalability: Choose an infrastructure automation tool: There are many tools available for infrastructure automation, including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Terraform. Choose the tool that best fits your organization’s needs and has a good community of users and contributors. Define infrastructure as code: Create scripts and templates that define the infrastructure required for your application. This includes virtual machines, storage, network resources, and any other dependencies required for your application to run. Automate infrastructure provisioning: Automate the provisioning of the infrastructure using the automation tool. This includes creating and configuring virtu...
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The Power of NoSQL: How Cassandra and Spring Boot Deliver Scalable Solutions

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  Apache Cassandra is a highly scalable and distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers. It was developed at Facebook and later became an Apache Software Foundation project. In previous post we discussed about how Cassandra can help in application scaling using gossip protocol, Please follow the link to find out more  Link : Why is Apache Cassandra well-suited for use with Spring Boot? Apache Cassandra and Spring Boot complement each other well, offering several benefits for developers. The combination of Cassandra’s scalability as a NoSQL database and Spring Boot’s simplified configuration and improved developer productivity makes it easier to build high-performance and scalable applications. Additionally, the integration of Cassandra with other Spring projects and the ease of testing with Spring Boot enhances the overall development experience. How to configure Apache Cassandra on Spring Boot? To connect...
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