Microservices Patterns: Your Complete Handbook on Building Testable, Scalable, and Maintainable Microservices

by Austin Young

Microservices, a form of software architecture approach, allows companies to deliver services and products faster, and with scalability and flexibility. The guiding principle of microservices is to build an application by breaking down its business components into smaller services, which can be deployed and operated independently from each other. This sets it apart from the more traditional, monolithic architecture wherein all components are bundled together.

Companies that successfully adopt the appropriate microservice patterns for their application can greatly increase the time it takes to convert their ideas into customer value, which sustains long-term customer relationships and generates revenue. This is because, with microservices, development teams do not have to rewrite and deploy the whole application when new features are added. In addition, it takes less time and is much easier to conduct continuous maintenance.

This book attempts to explore all you need to know regarding microservice architecture and patterns. It will assist you in making informed decisions, if you have plans to implement microservices architecture.

What You’ll Learn:

Examine the characteristics, concepts, and culture that define microservice architectures. Discover how microservices can help you drive business objectives. Comprehend the challenges of scaling microservice architectures. Analyze the complexities of monitoring and testing distributed systems. Explore effective testing strategies for microservices. Secure microservices with Single Sign-On, API gateway, JWT and so on. Learn how to implement different microservice design patterns to facilitate scalability whilst maintaining consistency. And lots more…

136 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2019

Reviews

[Visakh Sankar]

Good overview of microservices

The best part about the book was the types of microservice patterns described which was covered in good detail. I felt that an example could be used that would provided a strong visual of how microservices are designed and run. Such examples were missing in the book.