Session

Dr. Micro

Background:
In today's world, everything is now trending to micro, be it family, gadgets, appliances. In software world too, decoupling is the way forward and is achieved thru the Microservices.
Both Soarian and Millennium enterprise solutions are getting transformed into Microservices with the emphasis on moving to cloud to make it SaaS.
But often the service instance though having the availability, can still be incapable of handling/processing requests due to internal issues like Database connections, OOM, JVM issues etc..
So how to determine availability of a running service instance to handle requests?

Solution:
Our new initiative name "Dr. Micro" checks the health status (such as status of Service, DB connections, Disk space etc.) of a Microservice prior to receive a request and ensures the request does not get lost.
Also this would be useful while triaging an issue related to services status.

Future scope:
1. Currently the tool requires manual intervention but there is a scope to automate the process.
2. End to end traceability of the Request(s) from one microservice to the other.

Takeaway:
This initiative will help the audience to have a clear idea on how Microservice's health can be monitored following an efficient approach.

Swaroop Chakraborty

Cerner Associate | Likes it when people call him 'Ayan'

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