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Microservices with Azure

By : Rahul Rai, Namit Tanasseri
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Microservices with Azure

By: Rahul Rai, Namit Tanasseri

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is rapidly evolving and is widely used as a platform on which you can build Microservices that can be deployed on-premise and on-cloud heterogeneous environments through Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. This book will help you understand the concepts of Microservice application architecture and build highly maintainable and scalable enterprise-grade applications using the various services in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. We will begin by understanding the intricacies of the Microservices architecture and its advantages over the monolithic architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. We will present various scenarios where Microservices should be used and walk you through the architectures of Microservice-based applications. Next, you will take an in-depth look at Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, which is the best–in-class platform for building Microservices. You will explore how to develop and deploy sample applications on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to gain a thorough understanding of it. Building Microservice-based application is complicated. Therefore, we will take you through several design patterns that solve the various challenges associated with realizing the Microservices architecture in enterprise applications. Each pattern will be clearly illustrated with examples that you can keep referring to when designing applications. Finally, you will be introduced to advanced topics such as Serverless computing and DevOps using Service Fabric, to help you undertake your next venture with confidence.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Part 1 – Laying The Foundation
Part 2 – Microsoft Azure Service Fabric
Part 3 – Microservice Architecture Patterns
Part 4 – Supplementary Learning

Chapter 12. Serverless Microservices

Until recently, every code development was accompanied with overheads of maintaining orchestrations, deployments, and so on. With the evolution in IT, developers desire to eliminate waste and focus on specific business objectives.

In a serverless environment, developers only stay concerned with solutions and the monitoring of usage. The business saves on costs by paying for computation cycles consumed and not for the idle time of system. A serverless system lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic faster. In a serverless computing model, the cloud provider manages starting and stopping of the container of the service as necessary to serve requests and the business need not pay for the virtual machines on which the services execute.

The growing requirement of developing Microservices that are much smaller and highly focused has given rise to a new breed of services called Nanoservices. Nanoservices can either be triggered...