EIP – Detour

Now, what is this “Detour” pattern all about? It’s essentially a rerouting exercise, not unlike the way you’d avoid a construction zone on your daily commute. In Azure terms, it’s…

EIP – Durable Subscriber

Right, let’s dive into the world of Durable Subscribers and how they help us avoid losing messages like forgotten emails in an overloaded inbox. Picture this scenario: you’ve got a…

Building out an Event-Driven Leader Election Architecture

Leadership is messy, whether it’s among humans or machines. The only difference is that machines, particularly in distributed systems, don’t bring ego into it. They just want a fair, reliable…

Service Mesh API Design

A Service Mesh is an infrastructure layer built into an application that facilitates service-to-service communication in a microservices architecture. It provides features like load balancing, service discovery, encryption, authentication, authorization,…

EIP – Message Splitter using Azure

Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) provide a well-established vocabulary and set of design guidelines for building cohesive and scalable messaging architectures. The Splitter Router pattern, a fundamental component of EIPs, plays…

EIP – Message Gateway

In the realm of enterprise system integration, the Message Gateway pattern plays a pivotal role in streamlining communication between disparate systems. This article delves into the essentials of the Message…

Designing Health Endpoints – RFC v.1.4

Change Log changelog: - version: 0.1 description: - Initial draft released, covering core design principles for health endpoints in Azure Functions. - Provided basic implementation examples, including simple health checks…

Distributed Tracing using Correlation ID

Distributed tracing with a Correlation ID allows for seamless tracking of a request as it flows through different services. For instance, when an order processing issue occurs, the Correlation ID…

EIP – Idempotent Receivers

An idempotent receiver is a message receiver that ensures that the processing of a message is executed only once, even if the message is received multiple times. This is useful…

EIP – Control Bus Architecture

A Control Bus (CB) is a messaging architecture that enables enterprise integration by facilitating the exchange of control messages among different systems and applications. It acts as a mediator between…