Analytics online solution 2021? What is a monolith? A monolith is a common legacy software design were all logic is compiled together in one big chuck of software. The upcoming architecture is called microservices which are small, autonomous, software pieces. There are advantages of both of them. Can we replace the monolith with microservices? Yes. We usually recommend small steps and a bit of preparation to identify any potential obstacles. You should also be prepared to make organizational changes.
Copyl started out from our own needs. We had an agency with 30 consultants and we were planning them all in an Excel sheet. We love Excel but we quickly got different planning in the projects and in the resource planning. We needed something more connected. And something that we could follow up in the time sheets and billing process. After a few years with this planning system we got a call from a big organization in Sweden that needed a ERP system. We scanned the market for them, not able to find a perfect match. We had a meeting and we showed them we showed how we managed our own resource planning. Instantly the customer said that they wanted that system. Copyl 1.0 was born. This was 2011. See extra information on microservice management. Copyl helps you organize all your contracts. Get an overview over all contracts. Categorize them and group contracts by customer, supplier or framework agreement. You get an overview from where the revenue and costs comes from.
All Contracts in one place! See current and past contracts from the overview page. Group by supplier, customer or status. Discuss and follow up on tasks: All contracts have their own forum were you and the counterparts can discuss the contract. The Task Management system in Copyl is also automatically connected to each contract. Integrated with Search and other pages: The contracts appears on the related contacts, search, projects and other pages were the contract is connected.
One common way of describing the microservice’s methods is to use an OpenAPI/Swagger that will create an HTML-page with all methods and data models described. Swagger documentation will be created automatically if you use e.g. Swashbuckle in your .net project. Our free microservice template uses Swashbuckle to describe the microservice api. How to secure your microservices? There are multiple levels of security that you can implement on your microservices. First you should make sure that you have some kind of Web Application Firewall. That could be managed by your cloud provider (Azure, AWS, Google, Alibaba etc) or by a third-part like Cloudflare. This service will make sure that the requests that are coming in to your microservice is of good intentions. Read even more info on https://www.copyl.com/.
Expect data to be inconsistent: There is no Foreign Keys connections between databases in different microservices. Presume the data is inconsistent between different systems and manage that. We cannot make isolated transactions over multiple microservices. Create local transactions if needed. Use Saga Management to orchestrate requests, enable error handling and enable rollbacks over multiple microservices. Database documentation in OpenAPI (e.g. Swagger): We recommend that the database model is defined together with the api and therefore also enjoy the automatic OpenAPI documentation.