PHP Microservices: Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

by Carlos Perez Sanchez, Pablo Solar Vilarino

Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices The world is moving away from bulky, unreliable, and high-maintenance PHP applications, to small, easy-to-maintain and highly available microservices and the pressing need is for PHP developers to understand the criticalities in building effective microservices that scale at large. This book will be a reliable resource, and one that will help you to develop your skills and teach you techniques for building reliable microservices in PHP. The book begins with an introduction to the world of microservices, and quickly shows you how to set up a development environment and build a basic platform using Docker and Vagrant. You will then get into the different design aspects to be considered while building microservices in your favorite framework and you will explore topics such as testing, securing, and deploying microservices. You will also understand how to migrate a monolithic application to the microservice architecture while keeping scalability and best practices in mind. Furthermore you will get into a few important DevOps techniques that will help you progress on to more complex domains such as native cloud development, as well as some interesting design patterns. By the end of this book you will be able to develop applications based on microservices in an organized and efficient way. You will also gain the knowledge to transform any monolithic applications into microservices.

392 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 2017

Reviews

[Marcin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basing on the table of contents this book looks good. Autodiscover, monitoring, logging, docker, dependency management, CI/CD, etc. But all these topics are described shallow and what moreover without best practices. For example, auto-discover require installation in container external software. And this software manage to start "main service" eg. PHP. Dependencies are installed by the composer on the container instead of building a docker image in the CI pipeline. Docker multistage build also is missing.