Micro frontend architecture approach is the answer to challenges which in their nature are similar to what microservices architecture solves on the backend. I covered microservice implementation principles and decision framework on choosing such approach previously. Let’s cover what this approach is all about. What is micro frontend architecture When company technology landscape is a…
Backend for Frontend – What is it?
Backend for Frontend design pattern – BFF for short while it’s definitely not “Best Friends Forever” ? – seems to get some hype lately. It’s nowhere a new thing: one of the first mentions were by SoundCloud guys back in 2015. Basically it’s a specialized case of a more generic API Gateway pattern. Let’s figure…
When to use microservices?
This is a follow up to an earlier article on microservice architecture implementation principles. It was promised back then to get back to the question of “when to use microservices”. A bit of history The overall architecture pattern of microservices was successfully implemented in 2010-ish. That was an endeavor on the part of a few…
Microservice Architecture Implementation Principles
Today on microservice architecture implementation principles. I intentionally don’t touch the topic of whether or not one should use microservice architecture for a particular project/company context in this article. That’s a big separate topic of its own and a story for another day. The following list consists of fundamental items which should be kept in…