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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

Stateful service


A stateful Microservice stores state information stored in a consistent and highly available manner using reliable data structure. By default, the state data is saved on the disk of the compute node. However, you can write your own state providers to store state data externally and consume it. Service Fabric ensures that your state data is consistent and highly available so that, in case of failure of primary compute node, a secondary node can resume processing without loss of data.

Stateful service architecture

A stateful service takes requests from clients through the ICommunicationListener interface:

Stateful Reliable Service architecture

The implementation of a stateful reliable service derives from StatefulService class. Service Fabric runtime manages the lifetime of your stateful Microservice through the StatefulService class. The service can use Reliable Collections to persist state information, which are similar to collections in System.Collections namespace but with...