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Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

By : Dinesh Rajput
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Book Image

Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

5 (1)
By: Dinesh Rajput

Overview of this book

Microservices are the latest "right" way of developing web applications. Microservices architecture has been gaining momentum over the past few years, but once you've started down the microservices path, you need to test and optimize the services. This book focuses on exploring various testing, monitoring, and optimization techniques for microservices. The book starts with the evolution of software architecture style, from monolithic to virtualized, to microservices architecture. Then you will explore methods to deploy microservices and various implementation patterns. With the help of a real-world example, you will understand how external APIs help product developers to focus on core competencies. After that, you will learn testing techniques, such as Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, and Load Testing. Next, you will explore performance testing tools, such as JMeter, and Gatling. Then, we deep dive into monitoring techniques and learn performance benchmarking of the various architectural components. For this, you will explore monitoring tools such as Appdynamics, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, and Nagios. Finally, you will learn to identify, address, and report various performance issues related to microservices.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Microservices deployment

In Chapter 2, Anatomy of Microservice Decomposition Services, we created a distributed application based on the microservice architecture and architected the application as a set of services. We can now deploy each service as a set of service instances to improve throughput and availability. The microservice architecture makes the service deployable and scalable, meaning all service instances are isolated from each other.

The microservice architecture allows us to build and deploy a service quickly. It also allows us to limit the number of resources used, including CPU, memory, and I/O resources. A microservice application has tens of hundreds of services. You can independently increase or decrease resources of a deployment machine based on the usage of a service. Microservices also allow you to write a service in any language and framework, so you can...