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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

Before committing to Nanoservices


Nanoservices live within the sizing constraints of Microservices. Smaller size of modules enables the service to maintain and change. Therefore, a system composed of Nanoservices can be easily extended.

In a typical domain driven system, each class and function can be modelled as a separate Nanoservice. This leads to an increase in infrastructure costs such as that of application servers and monitoring solutions. Since implementing a complete business solution using Nanoservices might involve deploying several hundreds to a couple of thousands of Nanoservices, the infrastructure costs on the desired cloud platform need to be as low as possible. In addition, Nanoservices should not be long running or resource intensive.

Nanoservices require a lot of communication among themselves. This may lead to degraded performance. On certain platforms, Nanoservices may share a process, which may cause resource starvation and take away technological freedom. This approach...