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Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

By : Dinesh Rajput
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Hands-On Microservices ??? Monitoring and Testing

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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)

Testing of Microservices

In this chapter, the user will explore various strategies for testing microservices, microservice input headers, and payload details. We will discuss different testing approaches for microservice applications within this chapter.

A microservice architecture consists of small, independently deployable, and single responsibility-focused services. These services can be aggregated together to make a complete business application. A single instance of a microservice must serve a single business responsibility in your business application. These services are independent of each other, and you can easily test and deploy each one individually.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Testing strategies for microservices
  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing
  • Component testing
  • Contract testing
  • End-to-end testing
  • UI/functional testing

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