microservices – Tarik Billa

What is Upstream and Downstream services in a microservices based architecture?

May 6, 2023 by Tarik

Definition 1: The direction of action Upstream: receiving requests from / sending responses to A service upstream is calling me. Downstream: making requests to / receiving responses from I am calling a service downstream. Definition 2: The direction of dependency Upstream: making requests to / receiving responses from I am calling a service upstream. Downstream: … Read more

Microservices vs Monolithic Architecture [closed]

January 17, 2023 by Tarik

This is a very important question because a few people get lured by all the buzz around microservices, and there are tradeoffs to consider. So, what are the benefits and challenges of microservices (when compared with the monolithic model)? Benefits Deployability: more agility to roll out new versions of a service due to shorter build+test+deploy … Read more