Microservice Architecture
Supported by KongThe Microservices Assessment Platform is generally available
We are pleased to announce that the Microservices Assessment Platform is generally available.
What is assessed
The platform enables an organization to assess the architecture of its microservices-based applications and identify areas that need to be improved.
There are two parts of the assessment.
- Application assessment - the first part evaluates numerous aspects of your application’s overall microservice-based architecture
- Service assessment - the second part of the assessment evaluates the following aspects of each service
Application Assessment
Service Assessment
- Key software delivery outcomes
- General architecture
- Inter-service communication
- Deployment and Reliability
- Observability
- Externalized configuration
- Supporting infrastructure
- Libraries and frameworks
- Documentation
- Organization and process
- Key software delivery outcomes
- Service design
- Externalized configuration
- Inter-service communication
- Service reliability
- Deployment/Release
- Observability
- Documentation
- Automated testing
- Organization and process
How the results are displayed
There are numerous ways to view the results including a score/impact matrix that prioritizes the issues that need to be addressed:
Radar chart
Score/impact matrix
Progress view
Pricing
Individuals
Teams: collaboratively assess applications and share the results
- 200.00 USD/year for the first 5 members
- 25.00 USD/year for each additional member
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The patterns
Application architecture patterns
Decomposition
- Decompose by business capability
- Decompose by subdomain
- Self-contained Servicenew
- Service per teamnew
Refactoring to microservicesnew
Data management
- Database per Service
- Shared database
- Saga
- Command-side replica
- API Composition
- CQRS
- Domain event
- Event sourcing
Transactional messaging
Testing
Deployment patterns
- Multiple service instances per host
- Service instance per host
- Service instance per VM
- Service instance per Container
- Serverless deployment
- Service deployment platform
Cross cutting concerns
Communication style
External API
Service discovery
- Client-side discovery
- Server-side discovery
- Service registry
- Self registration
- 3rd party registration
Reliability
Security
Observability
- Log aggregation
- Application metrics
- Audit logging
- Distributed tracing
- Exception tracking
- Health check API
- Log deployments and changes
UI patterns