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PHP Microservices

By : Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Book Image

PHP Microservices

By: Pablo Solar Vilariño, Carlos Pérez Sánchez

Overview of this book

The world is moving away from bulky, unreliable, and high-maintenance PHP applications, to small, easy-to-maintain and highly available microservices and the pressing need is for PHP developers to understand the criticalities in building effective microservices that scale at large. This book will be a reliable resource, and one that will help you to develop your skills and teach you techniques for building reliable microservices in PHP. The book begins with an introduction to the world of microservices, and quickly shows you how to set up a development environment and build a basic platform using Docker and Vagrant. You will then get into the different design aspects to be considered while building microservices in your favorite framework and you will explore topics such as testing, securing, and deploying microservices. You will also understand how to migrate a monolithic application to the microservice architecture while keeping scalability and best practices in mind. Furthermore you will get into a few important DevOps techniques that will help you progress on to more complex domains such as native cloud development, as well as some interesting design patterns. By the end of this book you will be able to develop applications based on microservices in an organized and efficient way. You will also gain the knowledge to transform any monolithic applications into microservices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PHP Microservices
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Preface

What is DevOps?


DevOps is a set of practices that emphasizes the collaboration and communication between development and operations (IT). The main goal is to establish a culture of a rapid, frequent, and more reliable way of releasing software. To achieve this goal, the DevOps usually try to automate as much as they can. If your project (or company) grows, at some point, you will put some DevOps principles in place to secure the future of your application.

Some of the technical benefits of adopting this culture in your organization can be as follows:

  • Aims to maximize the use of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

  • Reduces the complexity of the issues to fix

  • Reduces the number of failures

  • Provides a faster resolution of problems

The main pillar of DevOps is the culture of communication between all parts involved in the development of your application, especially between development and operations guys. It doesn't matter how nice or amazing your application is, a lack of communication...