The Complete Microservices Guide

Monitoring Tools Web Servers DevOps Tools

Zipkin Landing Page
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Zipkin

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Distributed Tracing: Middleware for distributed tracing like Jaeger and Zipkin helps monitor and trace requests as they flow through multiple microservices, aiding in debugging, performance optimization, and understanding the system's behavior.

#Monitoring Tools #Application Performance Monitoring #Log Management 27 social mentions
Prometheus Landing Page
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Prometheus

An open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Monitoring and Logging: Middleware often includes monitoring and logging components like ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana to track the health, performance, and behavior of microservices. This aids in troubleshooting and performance optimization.

#Monitoring Tools #Performance Monitoring #Log Management 224 social mentions
Kubernetes Landing Page
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Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
Orchestration: Microservices are typically deployed and managed using container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Kubernetes automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It ensures that microservices are distributed across infrastructure nodes efficiently and can recover from failures.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 280 social mentions
Apache Kafka Landing Page
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Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Inter-Service Communication: Middleware provides communication channels and protocols that enable microservices to communicate with each other. This can include message brokers like RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, RPC frameworks like gRPC, or RESTful APIs.

#Stream Processing #Data Integration #ETL 120 social mentions
gRPC Landing Page
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gRPC

Application and Data, Languages & Frameworks, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and Service Discovery
Pricing:
- Open Source
Inter-Service Communication: Middleware provides communication channels and protocols that enable microservices to communicate with each other. This can include message brokers like RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, RPC frameworks like gRPC, or RESTful APIs.

#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 86 social mentions
Grafana Landing Page
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Grafana

Data visualization & Monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases
Pricing:
- Open Source
Monitoring and Logging: Middleware often includes monitoring and logging components like ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana to track the health, performance, and behavior of microservices. This aids in troubleshooting and performance optimization.

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 197 social mentions
etcd Landing Page
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etcd

A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Pricing:
- Open Source
Service Discovery: Microservices need to discover and communicate with each other dynamically. Service discovery tools like etcd, Consul, or Kubernetes built-in service discovery mechanisms help locate and connect to microservices running on different nodes within the infrastructure.

#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 25 social mentions
AWS Secrets Manager Landing Page

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AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager to Rotate, Manage, Retrieve Secrets

Secret Management: Securely stores sensitive configuration data and secrets using tools like AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault. Avoid hardcoding secrets in code or configuration files.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 67 social mentions
AWS CloudFormation Landing Page
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AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Define your infrastructure using code (IaC) to automate the provisioning of resources such as virtual machines, load balancers, and databases. Tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CloudFormation can help.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 113 social mentions