Microservices in Action

394 Pages·2018·41.042 MB·English

by  Morgan Bruce, Paulo A. Pereira

Morgan Bruce
Paulo A. Pereira
M A N N I N G
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A microservice production environment has several components: a deployment target,
a deployment pipeline, runtime management, networking features, and support for
observability. In this book, we'll teach you about these components and how you can use
them to build a stable, modern microservice application.

Microservices in Action

Microservices in Action
MORGAN BRUCE
PAULO A. PEREIRA
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brief contents
Part 1 The lay of the land ................................................. 1
1 ■ Designing and running microservices 3
2 ■ Microservices at SimpleBank 28
Part 2 Design .......................................................................49
3 ■ Architecture of a microservice application 51
4 ■ Designing new features 75
5 ■ Transactions and queries in microservices 105
6 ■ Designing reliable services 129
7 ■ Building a reusable microservice framework 159
Part 3 Deployment ............................................................185
8 ■ Deploying microservices 187
9 ■ Deployment with containers and schedulers 214
10 ■ Building a delivery pipeline for microservices 243
Part 4 Observability and ownership .............................267
11 ■ Building a monitoring system 269
12 ■ Using logs and traces to understand behavior 296
13 ■ Building microservice teams 325
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contents
preface xv
acknowledgments xvii
about this book xix
about the authors xxii
about the cover illustration xxiii
Part 1 The lay of the land ......................................1
1 Designing and running microservices 3
1.1 What is a microservice application? 4
Scaling through decomposition 6 ■ Key principles 7 ■ Who uses
microservices? ■ Why are microservices a good choice? 12
1.2 What makes microservices challenging? 14
Design challenges ■ Operational challenges 17
1.3 Microservice development lifecycle 18
Designing microservices ■ Deploying
microservices ■ Observing microservices 24
1.4 Responsible and operationally aware engineering
culture 26
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