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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

By : Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
Book Image

Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

By: Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco

Overview of this book

Microservices are a hot trend in the development world right now. Many enterprises have adopted this approach to achieve agility and the continuous delivery of applications to gain a competitive advantage. This book will take you through different design patterns at different stages of the microservice application development along with their best practices. Microservice Patterns and Best Practices starts with the learning of microservices key concepts and showing how to make the right choices while designing microservices. You will then move onto internal microservices application patterns, such as caching strategy, asynchronism, CQRS and event sourcing, circuit breaker, and bulkheads. As you progress, you'll learn the design patterns of microservices. The book will guide you on where to use the perfect design pattern at the application development stage and how to break monolithic application into microservices. You will also be taken through the best practices and patterns involved while testing, securing, and deploying your microservice application. At the end of the book, you will easily be able to create interoperable microservices, which are testable and prepared for optimum performance.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Endpoints for web applications


As we have already seen with the published interfaces, it is now important to define the content of these endpoints and their size.

An important topic that is not always addressed is the componentization of the endpoints that are exposed. Think about a microservice responsible for user information. Some development teams decided to create a large endpoint that provides all possible information stored about a user. This type of endpoint, one getUser type, may seem simple for development, but not for scalability.

A great deal of useless information for those who consume the API may be being passed, or is heavily specific information to transmit and expensive to be generated by the microservice. Thinking practically, the most sensible approach is to create an information API more fragmented and diverse, and if a getUser is necessary, create an orchestrator of the smaller information and pass on a single endpoint. The following diagram is a good example of this:

This type of strategy is called endpoint builder, where the heavy point of information actually is compositions of other lighter data sources.