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Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

By : Dinesh Rajput
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Book Image

Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

5 (1)
By: Dinesh Rajput

Overview of this book

Microservices are the latest "right" way of developing web applications. Microservices architecture has been gaining momentum over the past few years, but once you've started down the microservices path, you need to test and optimize the services. This book focuses on exploring various testing, monitoring, and optimization techniques for microservices. The book starts with the evolution of software architecture style, from monolithic to virtualized, to microservices architecture. Then you will explore methods to deploy microservices and various implementation patterns. With the help of a real-world example, you will understand how external APIs help product developers to focus on core competencies. After that, you will learn testing techniques, such as Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, and Load Testing. Next, you will explore performance testing tools, such as JMeter, and Gatling. Then, we deep dive into monitoring techniques and learn performance benchmarking of the various architectural components. For this, you will explore monitoring tools such as Appdynamics, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch, and Nagios. Finally, you will learn to identify, address, and report various performance issues related to microservices.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Serverless deployment

If you want to avoid choosing between using VMs or a container, you can opt for a serverless microservice deployment instead. Serverless deployment is a cloud-based deployment model in which the cloud provider manages all resources that are utilized by microservices dynamically. They charge based on the actual usage of resources by microservices.

Serverless cloud computing is provided by cloud vendors such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. Amazon provides AWS Lambda as a serverless deployment technology, which supports Java, Python, and Node.js languages. You can easily deploy microservices to the serverless platform by packaging the microservices as ZIP files and uploading them to AWS Lambda. The serverless platform automatically runs instances of your microservices to handle incoming requests. Serverless cloud computing also uses resources such as the...