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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

Pros and cons of the branch design pattern


The branch design pattern is complex, but at the same time, it is very useful and flexible. Understanding the operation and when to apply this pattern is fundamental for preventing future problems.

Some examples of the good points that the pattern offers us are:

  • The flexibility of implementation
  • Independent scalability
  • Encapsulation of access to microservices
  • Compositional ability and orchestration

However, we must also understand some negative points of the pattern:

  • The possibility of latency points
  • The difficulty in understanding data ownership
  • The difficulty of debugging

The initial complexity of the branch design pattern may scare you a bit. However, the range of possibilities from both a technical point of view and a business point of view make the branch a pattern that deserves your full attention.