Monthly Archives: December 2024

Rolling a Message Specification Update on a Message Broker (AWS SQS)

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 »

API Protection Mechanisms and Service Level Management

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 »