Brownfield Migration: The Strangler Fig Approach to BFF Adoption
Incrementally introducing a BFF in front of an existing monolith or REST API without a big-bang rewrite.
Apr 19, 202620 min read6
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The Frontend's Contract: Building Backends for Frontends
A practitioner's guide to the BFF pattern — from architectural rationale to production-grade implementation. Covers when BFF earns its complexity, how to design a clean client-specific API layer, and what it takes to run it reliably on Azure. Stack: Vue 3 · .NET Core 8+ · Azure.
BFF Resilience Patterns: Circuit Breakers, Retries & Timeouts with Polly
Making the BFF fault-tolerant using Polly. Handling partial upstream failures gracefully in aggregated responses.
Apr 19, 202619 min read1
Caching in the BFF: In-Memory, Redis & Response Caching
Where caching belongs in a BFF architecture, how to avoid stale-data bugs, and cache invalidation patterns.
Apr 18, 202618 min read29
Observability for BFF: Structured Logging, Distributed Tracing & Azure Application Insights
End-to-end traceability across Vue → BFF → upstream services using Azure Application Insights. Correlation IDs, structured logs with Serilog, custom telemetry, and Application Insights dashboards and alerts.
Apr 16, 202621 min read4
Testing the BFF: Unit, Integration & Contract Tests
A layered testing strategy for the BFF. WebApplicationFactory for integration tests, Pact for consumer-driven contract testing with Vue.
Apr 15, 202617 min read2
Shipping BFF to Azure: Docker Images, Artifact Publishing & Azure Container Instances
Full IaaS deployment pipeline — building and tagging Docker images, publishing artifacts, and running the BFF on Azure Container Instances. Includes Azure Front Door routing and when API Management adds value vs noise.
Apr 14, 202619 min read3