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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed how to performance-test a microservice-based application. We have also demonstrated how to load-test a microservice by using the JMeter and Gatling tools. An application that uses a microservice architecture is distributed, which means that performance testing is very important.

In Chapter 9, Performance Monitoring of Microservices, we'll discuss the performance monitoring of a microservice architecture and the various APM tools that can be utilized to test microservices.