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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)

Domain-specific monitoring

While monitoring an environment for the occurrence of relevant events represents a key executive function, it's also necessary to be clear about which functions are mediated by domain-general or domain-specific mechanisms. Domain-specific monitoring offers you enough information that you can act rapidly if someone intrudes on your system. It acts like a scam detector by detecting activity in your name and keeping you posted. Domain name security covers all of the important features you'd expect, including things such as duplicate names, misspellings, and phonetic variations of your name.

Rather than relying on generic mechanisms to provide data monitoring, domain-specific monitoring introduces concept probes. These probes are in-sync with the business concepts that are used in the definition of business processes. They combine monitoring information...