Category: Reactive Architecture

Combining Data Streaming and RAG for Smarter AI Conversations

February 24, 2025

Introduction In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, the integration of real-time data streaming and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is paving the way for smarter and more efficient AI conversations. This innovative approach was recently highlighted at the Winter Data Meetup 2025, the below is a summary of the talking points, for more detailed presentation and … More Combining Data Streaming and RAG for Smarter AI Conversations

Data Pipelines, Streaming vs. Batch, the Past, the Present and the Future

February 14, 2024

Streaming is the new Batch Data Pipelines, Streaming vs. Batch, the Past, the Present and the Future Introduction Data and Analytics continue to gain momentum within the enterprise, rising to the top of the heap of tools that would provide the business with a competitive advantage. Data Pipelines or how we transfer and transform data … More Data Pipelines, Streaming vs. Batch, the Past, the Present and the Future

The Curious case of Stateful Architecture!

June 2, 2021

Introduction As an Architect, when we start working on a new application or solution architecture; we study the requirements and see if the solution requires maintaining a specific set of states to support a business use case that requires maintaining a workflow or a state-machine (Event-Driven). Now, this is the tricky part; many would consider … More The Curious case of Stateful Architecture!

Bringing sanity back to Cloud Architecture

November 23, 2020

Why Cloud fails? Attempting to migrate to the Cloud without thoughtful planning and adopting the proper Cloud-Native architecture proved to be problematic and dangerous, it could easily lead to the failure of a strategic Cloud Migration initiative. Lightbend recently released their “Cloud Native Adoption Trends” survey, this is Gold, it is an eye opener and … More Bringing sanity back to Cloud Architecture

Why Akka if you have Kubernetes?

July 30, 2020

During our latest joint webinar with our partner Lightbend, we discussed building future-proof system architecture. This is the link to the webinar recording. We highlighted the importance of architecture flexibility and the role of Reactive Architecture and Cloud-Native architecture in supporting adaptability while achieving resilience and elasticity. We also highlighted the importance of loose coupling … More Why Akka if you have Kubernetes?

Modern Application Architecture and Java

April 14, 2020

Introduction Modern day web applications are increasingly under pressure to provide a richer user experience. Usually those applications start with the ability to support hundreds of concurrent users with few thousands concurrent requests or calls per day, however that could increase to millions if the venture proved to be successful. In such a case, the … More Modern Application Architecture and Java

MicroSystems Vs. MicroServices

March 10, 2020

Microservices Anti-patterns Microservices architecture has been a dominant architecture style for the last few years, it fits well into the Cloud-Native architecture and the agile methodology. The Enterprise is constantly looking for creative ways to speed up time to market; and the Microservices evolution is a big part of that. Lately, many seasoned industry experts … More MicroSystems Vs. MicroServices

The Modern Era Solution Architect

February 5, 2020

Software Architect, Application Architect, Solution Architect or all of the above? Introduction In the past few years, the information technology and the software development landscape dramatically changed. Advances in computer processors, networking and storage technologies, along with Cloud and mobile; led to the digital transformation evolution and the introduction of plethora of new business use … More The Modern Era Solution Architect

Reactive Architecture Quick Reference

August 23, 2019

Building Responsive, resilient, elastic, maintainable and extensible systems leads to gaining competitive advantage through faster time to market, improve modern user experience and lower the total cost of building and operating applications. Methods Event driven and message driven architecture Using Asynchronous messaging for inter-service communication and request processing Isolate Everything (Decoupling) Isolate time (eliminate blocking … More Reactive Architecture Quick Reference

Play Framework 2.7.x APIs routing list

June 18, 2019

Play framework is not just used for web applications. It’s also used to build Microservices. The Akka http performance and the actor model are very well suited for building high performance systems utilizing Hexagonal and Reactive architecture techniques. While, it’s highly recommended to use a dedicated API documentation to document the services’ APIs, still, early … More Play Framework 2.7.x APIs routing list