Ever since Facebook announced at F8 that React Native was open and available on GitHub early in 2015, the framework adoption rate has never slowed down.
React Native, the next-gen of React (a JavaScript code library developed by Facebook and Instagram), is one of those ‘treats’ few IT companies can go past without giving it a try. CodeTiburon wasn’t an exception. Inspired by success stories and eager to join the ever growing community, we decided to venture into the unknown.
There’s hardly a tech entrepreneur who has never heard of microservices, an emerging style of application development. However, with all the tech disruption, most concepts don’t go beyond a buzzword. So microservices architecture can ring as yet another overhyped idea to most of us. Okay, Netflix, Amazon, eBay have migrated to microservices. So what? What can beat the good old monolith?
Life can. New business reality asks for more flexible, resilient, fault-tolerant, device-agnostic solutions, where complexity is an intrinsic hallmark of a system excellence. And the first step to excellence is awareness.
In this post we’ll make a brief introduction to microservices architecture (MSA): its essence, good and bad, whether you need it, and how to implement it.
Media and entertainment industry has always been on the forefront of tech innovation. An unspoken law reads, either change or die. That’s what the incumbents like Disney, Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner are still figuring out. That’s what streaming video providers like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, and Hulu have got covered.
