Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a RPC-style web service protocol.
Category: Architecture
Primer on GitHub Actions
With GitHub Actions one can build end-to-end continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) capabilities.
API Gateway + Lambda
API Gateway is a fully managed service to create, publish, maintain, monitor and secure APIs. Lambda is a function-as-a-service product. The two can be combined to create serverless, cost-efficient and infinitely scalable APIs.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a software system that allows one to easily deploy and manage containerised application on top of it. Its aim is to provide best possible utilisation of your hardware (metal and virtual) resources while still maintaining complete isolation of hosted applications.
Docker
Docker is a platform for packaging, distributing and running applications. It allows you to package your application together with its whole environment.
Containers
When an application comprises a handful of large components only, it's completely acceptable to give a dedicated virtual machine (VM) to each component and isolate their environments by giving each their own operating system instance.
The case for microservices
Monolithic applications consist of components that are all tightly coupled together and have to be developed, deployed and managed as one entity. Running a monolith typically requires a small number of powerful servers that can provide enough resources for running the application.
