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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

PaaS for Microservices


Microservices need to be updated, scaled, and managed, both individually and as a cohesive unit. The PaaS environment that supports Microservices development should have the following features.

Abstract infrastructure challenges

A Microservices development platform should not allow Quality of Service (QoS) challenges such as network latency, messaging formats, scalability, availability, and reliability to propagate to the application.

Scaling is a key enabler of the cloud platform. Scaling can be performed either by migrating the application to a host with higher compute capacity, also known as scaling up, or by adding more hosts with the same compute capacity to the pool of resources that the application gets deployed on, also known as scaling out. Although scaling up is limited to the maximum size of the available virtual machines, scaling out is virtually unlimited on cloud.

To scale out an application, the workload can either be distributed evenly among all instances...