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Practical Microservices

By : Umesh Ram Sharma
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Practical Microservices

By: Umesh Ram Sharma

Overview of this book

<p>A microservice architecture helps you build your application as a suite of different services. This approach has been widely adopted as it helps to easily scale up your application with reduced dependencies. This way if a part of your application is corrupted, it can be fixed easily thereby eliminating the possibility of completely shutting down your software. This book will teach you how to leverage Java to build scalable microservices. You will learn the fundamentals of this architecture and how to efficiently implement it practically.</p> <p>We start off with a brief introduction to the microservice architecture and how it fares with the other architectures. The book dives deep into essential microservice components and how to set up seamless communication between two microservice end points. You will create an effective data model and learn different ways to test and deploy a microservices. You will also learn the best way to migrate your software from a monolith to a microservice architecture.</p> <p>Finishing off with monitoring, scaling and troubleshooting, this book will set a solid foundation for you to start implementing microservices.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

One step further


In the microservice field, end-to-end testing is not limited to requirement testing. Taking one step ahead, performance testing should be considered in this. As in a microservice architecture, every service runs on different machines and there is an endpoint in all the services that are called by other services. So, there would be a question as to whether load testing of these endpoints should be done on the component level in isolation or the application level.

If load/performance testing is done on the component level, then it will be very helpful to identify which service is performing slowly. In addition to that, different layers' issues, network layer issues, and machine level issues are also highlighted in this testing. This type of testing points out the bottlenecks of performance. It will also help to identify application strength in network latency, packet loss, and scaling policies of components. Performance testing becomes a challenge for testers. Any new release...