Database columns can be encrypted multiple ways. Most of the databases have built-in support to encrypt the values. For example, in Postgres we can use the function pgp_sym_encrypt and pgp_sym_decrypt. It has some disadvantages like every read/write operation will have some operation overhead and slow down the DB servers. Most of the database providers give an option to encrypt the values. Moreover, keys used for the encryption should be properly managed. And it is complicated to do within the realms of the database servers. In a distributed system, the computing costs should be kept minimal and databases have a very...
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Distributed Tracing using Zipkin and Spring Cloud Sleuth
There is a growing trend in organizations to solve everything with Microservices. For a lot of modern-day applications still, a single node monolith is enough and a better choice. Microservices are not a silver bullet which will solve all our technical problems. It comes with its own baggage which has to be taken into consideration and is neatly explained by Martin Fowler here. Increased operational complexity in using Microservices is certainly an area of concern but it is a solvable problem. In order to handle the operational complexity one of the major concern while doing microservices, we need to get...
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