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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
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Routing


Routing is a mapping between the entry points of your application (requests) and a specific class and method in your source that executes your logic. For example, you can have defined in your application a mapping between the /users route and the method list() which is inside your Users class.  Once you have this mapping in place, as soon as your application receives a request for the route /users, it will execute all the logic you have inside the list() method (located in the Users class). Routing allows the API consumers to interact with your application. In microservices, the RESTful convention is the most used and we will follow it.

  • HTTP Methods:

    • GET: It is used to retrieve information about a specified entity or collection of entities. The amount of data does not matter; we will use GET for one or many results, and also we can use filters in order to filter the results.

    • POST: It is used to enter information in the application. It is also used to send new information in order...