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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

By : Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
Book Image

Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

By: Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco

Overview of this book

Microservices are a hot trend in the development world right now. Many enterprises have adopted this approach to achieve agility and the continuous delivery of applications to gain a competitive advantage. This book will take you through different design patterns at different stages of the microservice application development along with their best practices. Microservice Patterns and Best Practices starts with the learning of microservices key concepts and showing how to make the right choices while designing microservices. You will then move onto internal microservices application patterns, such as caching strategy, asynchronism, CQRS and event sourcing, circuit breaker, and bulkheads. As you progress, you'll learn the design patterns of microservices. The book will guide you on where to use the perfect design pattern at the application development stage and how to break monolithic application into microservices. You will also be taken through the best practices and patterns involved while testing, securing, and deploying your microservice application. At the end of the book, you will easily be able to create interoperable microservices, which are testable and prepared for optimum performance.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Fail alert tools


Just as we prepare our product to be successful, we must also prepare for failures. There is nothing worse in microservices than silent errors. Receiving faulty alerts as soon as possible is critical, which is considered to be a healthy microservices ecosystem.

There are at least four major points of failure when it comes to microservices. If these points are covered, we can say that about 70% of the application is safe. These points are as follows:

  • Performance
  • Build
  • Components
  • Implementation failures

Let's understand what each of these risk points are and how we can receive failure alerts as soon as possible.

Performance

Let's look a little further at some very interesting tools to prove the performance of our endpoints. Local test endpoints help to anticipate performance issues that we would only see in production.

After sending the microservices to the production environment, some tools can be used to monitor the implementation of the performance as a whole. There are both free...