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PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By : Jose Palala, Martin Helmich
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By: Jose Palala, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

When it comes to modern web development, performance is everything. The latest version of PHP has been improvised and updated to make it easier to build for performance, improved engine execution, better memory usage, and a new and extended set of tools. If you’re a web developer, what’s not to love? This guide will show you how to make full use of PHP 7 with a range of practical projects that will not only teach you the principles, but also show you how to put them into practice. It will push and extend your skills, helping you to become a more confident and fluent PHP developer. You’ll find out how to build a social newsletter service, a simple blog with a search capability using Elasticsearch, as well as a chat application. We’ll also show you how to create a RESTful web service, a database class to manage a shopping cart on an e-commerce site and how to build an asynchronous microservice architecture. With further guidance on using reactive extensions in PHP, we’re sure that you’ll find everything you need to take full advantage of PHP 7. So dive in now!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Build a Simple Blog with Search Capability using Elasticsearch

Chapter 7. Building an Asynchronous Microservice Architecture

In this chapter, we will build an application consisting of a set of small and independent components that communicate with each other over network protocols. Often, these so-called Microservice architectures are built using HTTP-based communication procotols, often in the form of RESTful APIs, which we've already implemented in Chapter 5, Creating a RESTful Web Service.

Instead of focusing on REST, in this chapter we will explore an alternative communication protocol that focuses on asynchronicity, loose coupling, and high performance: ZeroMQ. We will use ZeroMQ to build a simplecheckout service for an (entirely fictional) e-commerce scenario that will handle a wide range of concerns, beginning with e-mail messaging, order processing, inventory management, and more.