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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

By : Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh
Book Image

Practical Site Reliability Engineering

By: Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh

Overview of this book

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is being touted as the most competent paradigm in establishing and ensuring next-generation high-quality software solutions. This book starts by introducing you to the SRE paradigm and covers the need for highly reliable IT platforms and infrastructures. As you make your way through the next set of chapters, you will learn to develop microservices using Spring Boot and make use of RESTful frameworks. You will also learn about GitHub for deployment, containerization, and Docker containers. Practical Site Reliability Engineering teaches you to set up and sustain containerized cloud environments, and also covers architectural and design patterns and reliability implementation techniques such as reactive programming, and languages such as Ballerina and Rust. In the concluding chapters, you will get well-versed with service mesh solutions such as Istio and Linkerd, and understand service resilience test practices, API gateways, and edge/fog computing. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience on working with SRE concepts and be able to deliver highly reliable apps and services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
10
Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring
Index

Important facts about microservices


Let's take a look at the following facts, which can give us a clearer picture of microservices.

Microservices in the current market

There are multiple reasons why, at this moment, people are starting to focus more on microservices architecture than monolithic architecture and even service-oriented architecture (SOA). This is because microservices have the following advantages:

  • The ability to respond to change quickly
  • Domain-driven design
  • The availability of automated test tools
  • The availability of release and deployment tools
  • The availability of on-demand hosting technology
  • The availability of on-line cloud services
  • The ability to embrace new technology
  • Reliability
  • The availability of asynchronous communication technology
  • The availability of simpler server-side and client-side technology

When to stop designing microservices

Designing microservices can often feel more like an art than a science. There is lots of general advice available in the domain, but at times this...