Message brokers facilitate communication between Message Publishers and Message Consumers. The instructions (fields) in the message are structured by the publisher of the message in a way the consumer can understand and parse without any problems. This mutual agreement is known to the developers, but not all projects externalize this agreement as a contract. Just… Read More »
As developers/architects, we often use caching mechanisms at our API Layer to reduce the strain we put on our backend services. Some of the backend service operations, however, cannot be cached by nature and we need to pass-through user requests to them. When these operations are considered as “expensive,” we should apply some protection mechanisms… Read More »
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Asynchronous communication is a widely used communication method between different processes and systems. In an Asynchronous Communication, the client sends a request to the server (which requires lengthy processing) and receives a delivery acknowledgment response right away. Different from the synchronous communication, this response does not have the required “information,” yet. After the client receives… Read More »
Monitoring of web services/sites via Synthetic Monitoring Systems is a common practice that is implemented by most of the companies. Cloud-based monitoring platforms give us the ability to watch our services from the Internet/ through the eyes of our customers. However, the alarms that are emitted through these platforms are limited, most of the times,… Read More »
In OSS, we use the polling concept often to pull statistics and configuration data from the devices. If the devices we are dealing with are implementing the pull-based protocols such as SNMP or FTP, we cannot get rid of this. All types of polling processes come with a polling period. If I have 100 routers… Read More »
Every company that relies on web business should invest in web monitoring platforms. Web monitoring platforms connect to a web site and measure KPI’s such as DNS resolution time, page download time and page consistency. (Checking a specific header or content value). These synthetic transactions, that are run by the probes, help to identify server reachability.… Read More »
OSS have been seen as the cost center since it was born. That’s why the business has been less motivated to invest in it. We, as OSS professionals have struggled to justify the investments in terms of operational excellence, improved quality, increased productivity. These has been used multiple times for the justifications however I assure you… Read More »
SIEM stands for “Security Information and Event Management” and it is a well known OSS system in the security world. It is not much visible to other domains because it has been used mainly for internal purposes. Today, I am going to talk about what SIEM is, and elaborate on possible uses of it. Every system,… Read More »
Today’s topic is “OSS Class of service”, a term probably has not introduced before. After the data boom that we saw in fixed/mobile networks, many new concepts popped up. Cloud computing, big data, VoIP and M2M are some of these. With the introduction of OTT operators in the market, the services that are delivered became… Read More »