Alternative to Kafka Apache Kafka is a no-brainer when comes to a streaming platform. “Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.” Here are a few alternatives to Apache Kafka. 1. https://nats.io/ 2. https://zeromq.org/ 3. https://www.rabbitmq.com/ 4. https://kubemq.io/ 5. https://gotify.net/ 6. https://centrifugal.dev/ 7. https://liftbridge.io/ 8. https://spark.apache.org/ 9. https://pulsar.apache.org/ 10. https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/jboss-middleware/amq 11. https://streamsets.com/ 12. https://redpanda.com/ 13. https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/ 14. https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/ 15. https://storm.apache.org/ 16. https://redis.io/ 17. https://akka.io/

Alternative to Redis Redis is the most popular in-memory database used for caching. Redis is the default choice for caching. There are a few alternatives worth the attention. 1. https://docs.keydb.dev/ 2. https://hazelcast.com/ 3. https://aerospike.com/ 4. https://www.tarantool.io/ 5. https://www.alachisoft.com/ncache/ #database #redis #keydb #aerospike #ncache

Alternatives to AWS API Gateway API Gateway is a popular microservice architecture pattern. API Gateway plays a critical role to expose public API from multiple microservices. Normally, People go with the API Gateway service of a cloud provider (i.e. AWS API Gateway, GCP API Gateway, etc..), but there are many open-source API Gateway available to choose from. I am providing a few open-source API gateway alternatives to AWS API Gateway.

Alternatives to AWS / GCP / Azure. AWS, GCP and Azure provide tons of services, which will make your software product scalable, highly available, elastic and more, but these public clouds should not be your de facto choice for software products. Technical decision-making becomes complex because of the variety of options available to choose. I am going to suggest a few alternatives to these public clouds.

gRPC system initially developed at Google in 2015 for internal use. It is open-sourced in 2016. gRPC is an open-source remote procedure call (RPC) framework. gRPC is used for a server to server or client to server communication. gRPC is preferred when you need low latency, highly scalable and distributed…

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. Protocol buffers are also known as protobuf Protocol buffers are developed by Google for internal use. It is available for the public in 2008. Protobuf is binary serialize protocol, unlike JSON and XML which are text-based human-readable protocol. …

Facebook develops GraphQL in 2015. On 7 November 2018, the GraphQL project was moved from Facebook to the newly-established GraphQL Foundation. Lee Byron (https://leebyron.com/) is co-creator of GraphQL at Facebook GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs. …

Microservice is a buzzword among the developer community. In this article, we will explore the most important points about Microservice architecture that are seldom addressed elsewhere. We will try to cover all the practical problems of moving to microservice architecture. Let’s start with some advantages of microservice architecture. Following are…

JSON has become defacto data exchange format for REST API. It is so common that developers consider JSON as a default protocol for communication until specified otherwise. In this article, I will try to cover the history of JSON along with RFC and IETF. “JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a…