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PHP Microservices

By : Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Book Image

PHP Microservices

By: Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez

Overview of this book

The world is moving away from bulky, unreliable, and high-maintenance PHP applications, to small, easy-to-maintain and highly available microservices and the pressing need is for PHP developers to understand the criticalities in building effective microservices that scale at large. This book will be a reliable resource, and one that will help you to develop your skills and teach you techniques for building reliable microservices in PHP. The book begins with an introduction to the world of microservices, and quickly shows you how to set up a development environment and build a basic platform using Docker and Vagrant. You will then get into the different design aspects to be considered while building microservices in your favorite framework and you will explore topics such as testing, securing, and deploying microservices. You will also understand how to migrate a monolithic application to the microservice architecture while keeping scalability and best practices in mind. Furthermore you will get into a few important DevOps techniques that will help you progress on to more complex domains such as native cloud development, as well as some interesting design patterns. By the end of this book you will be able to develop applications based on microservices in an organized and efficient way. You will also gain the knowledge to transform any monolithic applications into microservices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PHP Microservices
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

What is Cloud?


The fastest way to explain what we know as Cloud is by saying that the Cloud is the delivery of online services hosted on the Internet, but we can also say that Cloud allows us to consume digital resources in a very easy way. Some common Cloud services used these days are disk storage, virtual machines or TV services among others. As you can imagine, the main benefit of the Cloud is that we do not need to build and maintain these infrastructures at home.

As developers, you will know that Cloud is a good approach for our applications. Let's take a look at some advantages.

Autoscalable and elastic

When your application is online, it is impossible to predict whether the traffic will be very high in a few months or even a few days. Cloud allows us to have an autoscalable infrastructure that matches the traffic or consumption resources of our application. It can grow if your traffic is higher or decrease if your application does not have the traffic you hoped for.

Usually, there are...