Tag: microservices
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When Microservices Met Sprawl: Reining in Anti-Patterns
The Weekly Radar The Context Microservices remain the go-to architectural style for scaling teams and applications, yet the rush to break monoliths has exposed a surge of anti-patterns. According to the “Top 7 Microservices Anti-Patterns in 2025” report, organizations are routinely building “distributed monoliths,” overloading their networks with chatty RPC calls and duplicating data stores…
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Mutation Testing Adoption—Elevating Test Quality Beyond Coverage
Weekly Radar The Context Over the past 2–3 years, mutation testing has shifted from academic curiosity to an enterprise practice. Unlike traditional code coverage—which merely tracks what lines are executed—mutation testing introduces small code changes (“mutants”) and verifies whether the existing test suite catches them. Leading frameworks (e.g., Stryker, Pitest) now integrate with CI pipelines…
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Mastering Kubernetes Complexity with Platform Engineering
The Weekly Radar The Context Over the past year, Kubernetes has entrenched itself as the de facto standard for container orchestration. The System Design Statistics & Trends 2025 report notes that 87% of large-scale deployments now run on Kubernetes, up from 75% in late 2023 [4]. This surge reflects its ecosystem maturity—CRDs, service meshes, and…