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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)

The ReadyAPI

The ReadyAPI is a combination of other services, such as SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, service, and secure. These are explained, as follows:

  • SoapUI helps you build functional tests through which you can determine whether your application is working according to your expectations or if there are any anomalies present. The tests you build can vary from being very simple to highly complex.
  • LoadUI simulates a massive load on your server to make sure that the server can handle it and work efficiently, even under pressure.
  • In Service, you can trick your service into thinking that a real user is working on the application so that you can continue testing the service, even after it has passed the development stage.
  • With Secure, you can make sure that your application is safe from even the most common attacks. While it already contains some basic security measures, you can also...