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Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

By : Chanaka Fernando
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Book Image

Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

5 (1)
By: Chanaka Fernando

Overview of this book

Building a scalable microservices platform that caters to business demands is critical to the success of that platform. In a microservices architecture, inter-service communication becomes a bottleneck when the platform scales. This book provides a reference architecture along with a practical example of how to implement it for building microservices-based platforms with NATS as the messaging backbone for inter-service communication. In Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS, you’ll learn how to build a scalable and manageable microservices platform with NATS. The book starts by introducing concepts relating to microservices architecture, inter-service communication, messaging backbones, and the basics of NATS messaging. You’ll be introduced to a reference architecture that uses these concepts to build a scalable microservices platform and guided through its implementation. Later, the book touches on important aspects of platform securing and monitoring with the help of the reference implementation. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on best practices to follow when integrating with existing platforms and the future direction of microservices architecture and NATS messaging as a whole. By the end of this microservices book, you’ll have developed the skills to design and implement microservices platforms with NATS.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: The Basics of Microservices Architecture and NATS
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Section 2: Building Microservices with NATS
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Section 3: Best Practices and Future Developments

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the key components of the microservice architecture by discussing the inner and outer architecture of microservices in detail. There, we discussed how individual microservice development and inter-service communication becomes the inner architecture. Then, we discussed the outer architecture components at the edge of the platform and the cross-cutting functions that are shared between microservices such as observability, infrastructure provisioning, and automation.

Then, we discussed how NATS can be used in the microservice architecture and went into the details of how the NATS server interacts with the various components of the architecture. Finally, we defined the reference architecture for microservices with NATS by aggregating the points we discussed in the previous sections and discussed each component within the architecture in brief. This chapter helped you understand the core concepts of the microservice architecture and how NATS fits...