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Microservices Architecture Handbook: Non-Programmer’s Guide for Building Microservices

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Are you a non-coder looking for insight into Microservices Architecture?  You may be a consultant, Advisor, Project Manager or a novice into IT industry; after going through this guide you would be able to appreciate Microservices and other related concepts like SOA, Monolith Architecture, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes etc. You would also get to know about the leaders in Microservices adoption and impact it had on the overall agility and hyper-growth of the adopters. This book covers the complete lifecycle for your understanding Integrating, Testing, Deploying Microservices and the Security concerns while deploying. I am confident that after going through the book you would be able to navigate the discussion with any stakeholder and take your agenda ahead as per your role. Additionally, if you are new to the industry, and looking for an application development job, this book will help you to prepare with all the relevant information and understanding of the topic.

73 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2018

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September 2, 2025
Found this in a little free library. I know enough about microservice architectures to be dangerous.

Poorly copyedited, self published work. Reads a bit like slop even though it predates slop. After reading the first 20 pages I only skimmed the rest and I didn't notice anything obviously incorrect but it doesn't feel well suited to either a fully technical nor to a fully non-technical audience. Also feels a bit out of date, technologically.

I probably would have given this 2 stars if I read it in 2019 but at this point in time, I would probably recommend talking to a well-regarded LLM (e.g. Claude or GPT5) about microservice architectures instead. More targeted advice for your needs and better written.
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August 15, 2025
Despite the author's claim that this book is for non-programmers it relies on an understanding of the principles as well as the practices and acronyms.
Adding an acronym list as well as an index would help significantly with the readability of this book as would a good editor. (I suspect this book did not see an editor based on sentence structure etc.)
I would not recommend purchasing this book and got it thinking I was getting something else - my bad.
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March 28, 2019
Needs some immediate editing for grammar and formatting, but a useful book to get started. Illustrations were good.
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