Sidecar pattern is a single-node pattern made up of two containers. It involves co-locating another container in a node/pod along with the main application container. The application container contains the core logic for the application. The role of the sidecar is to augment and improve the application container, often without the application container’s knowledge.
In its simplest form, a sidecar container can be used to add functionality to a container that might otherwise be difficult to add....
Transactional Outbox Pattern
Transactional Outbox is a pattern to reliably publish messages without the use of distributed transactions. It uses an Outbox and a message dispatcher to reliably persist state and publish messages....
Idempotent Consumer Pattern
The Idempotent Consumer pattern provides the necessary safeguards to allows logic wrapped by it to be executed only once. It implements an unique identifier for each message and an idempotent repository....
Circuit Breaker Pattern
Circuit breakers help to avoid one failing component tearing down other dependent services in a domino effect. The key idea is for a service to fail fast if a dependent resource is not available, as opposed to waiting for a timeout/error for each service invocation during the period in which the dependent resource is down....
Retry Pattern
The retry pattern is an extremely important pattern to make applications and services more resilient to transient failures. A transient failure is a common type of failure in a cloud-based distributed architecture. This is often due to the nature of the network itself (loss of connectivity, timeout on requests, and so on). Transient faults occur when services are hosted separately and communicate over the wire, most likely over a HTTP protocol....
Bulkhead Isolation
Bulkhead Isolation pattern is used to make sure that all our services work independently of each other and failure in one will not create a failure in another service. Techniques such as single-responsibility pattern, asynchronous-communication pattern, Circuit Breaker and Retry pattern help achieve the goal of stopping a failure propagating throughout the whole application. To implement this pattern, all our services need to work independently of each other and failure in one should not create a failure in another service....
