Analysis of the current and future state of Technical Architecture.
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Retries and Dead-Letter Queues allow you to make multi-step processes reliable in the face of failure in order to avoid the Grumpy Customer Problem, but implementing them properly is quite a toil. Thankfully, LittleHorse helps keep your engineers happy by simplifying this process.
When integrating API's, we sometimes have to tie together steps that can take a long time or might not always be available. If we force the callers of our API's to wait for completion, we find ourselves with some grumpy customers. So what can we do about this?
Like the Saga Pattern, the Transactional Outbox pattern is tool for defending against data loss in your applications. In this blog we cover how it works and how to do it easier using LittleHorse.
The Saga pattern allows you to defend against data loss, dropped orders, and confused (or grumpy) customers. While useful, the Saga pattern is tricky to get right without an orchestrator.
LittleHorse Enterprises is a workflow engine company. But what is a workflow engine?
While they are often necessary, microservices are a headache. Fortunately, the right workflow engine (such as LittleHorse) can drastically reduce the difficulty of managing microservices.
Microservices are often necessary, but unfortunately they bring with them some baggage.
If microservices add so much complexity, why bother with the hassle?
About Helm vs Kubernetes Operators.