Building Microservices

Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.

Microservice technologies are moving quickly. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. You’ll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain.

• Discover how microservices allow you to align your system design with your organization’s goals
• Learn options for integrating a service with the rest of your system
• Take an incremental approach when splitting monolithic codebases
• Deploy individual microservices through continuous integration
• Examine the complexities of testing and monitoring distributed services
• Manage security with user-to-service and service-to-service models
• Understand the challenges of scaling microservice architectures

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Microservices
Chapter 2. The Evolutionary Architect
Chapter 3. How to Model Services
Chapter 4. Integration
Chapter 5. Splitting the Monolith
Chapter 6. Deployment
Chapter 7. Testing
Chapter 8. Monitoring
Chapter 9. Security
Chapter 10. Conway’s Law and System Design
Chapter 11. Microservices at Scale
Chapter 12. Bringing It All Together