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Microservices with Clojure

By : Anuj Kumar
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Microservices with Clojure

By: Anuj Kumar

Overview of this book

The microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern with which to design and build scalable, easy-tomaintain web applications. This book will teach you common patterns and practices, and will show you how to apply these using the Clojure programming language. This book will teach you the fundamental concepts of architectural design and RESTful communication, and show you patterns that provide manageable code that is supportable in development and at scale in production. We will provide you with examples of how to put these concepts and patterns into practice with Clojure. This book will explain and illustrate, with practical examples, how teams of all sizes can start solving problems with microservices. You will learn the importance of writing code that is asynchronous and non-blocking and how Pedestal helps us do this. Later, the book explains how to build Reactive microservices in Clojure that adhere to the principles underlying the Reactive Manifesto. We finish off by showing you various ways to monitor, test, and secure your microservices. By the end, you will be fully capable of setting up, modifying, and deploying a microservice with Clojure and Pedestal.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Monolithic architecture


The Helping Hands application can be designed using a three-layered architecture of presentation, business logic, and persistence. Based on the domain model, there can be four main tables in the Helping Hands application database corresponding to each entity. There will be a single database that will store all the data in the designated table. The database must be accessible to all the components of the system. The business logic layer will have well-defined components based on the principle of Separation of Concerns (SoC). Components will address all user stories for the Helping Hands application.

Application components

To address the user stories, there will be three main components and two helper components, as shown in the following diagram. The Registration Component will manage all the user accounts and related CRUD operations. The Service Component will handle all service-related operations such as create, update, and lookup. The Order Component will help place...