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Microservices Development Cookbook

By : Paul Osman
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Microservices Development Cookbook

By: Paul Osman

Overview of this book

Microservices have become a popular choice for building distributed systems that power modern web and mobile apps. They enable you to deploy apps as a suite of independently deployable, modular, and scalable services. With over 70 practical, self-contained tutorials, the book examines common pain points during development and best practices for creating distributed microservices. Each recipe addresses a specific problem and offers a proven, best-practice solution with insights into how it works, so you can copy the code and configuration files and modify them for your own needs. You’ll start by understanding microservice architecture. Next, you'll learn to transition from a traditional monolithic app to a suite of small services that interact to ensure your client apps are running seamlessly. The book will then guide you through the patterns you can use to organize services, so you can optimize request handling and processing. In addition this, you’ll understand how to handle service-to-service interactions. As you progress, you’ll get up to speed with securing microservices and adding monitoring to debug problems. Finally, you’ll cover fault-tolerance and reliability patterns that help you use microservices to isolate failures in your apps. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to work with a team to break a large, monolithic codebase into independently deployable and scalable microservices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Service-to-service communication


In large-scale systems, problems arise less often in services themselves and more often in the communication between services. For this reason, we need to carefully consider all of the various challenges in service-to-service communication. When discussing service-to-service communication, it's useful to visualize the flow of information in our system. Data flows in both directions–from the client (upstream) to the database, or event bus (downstream) in the form of requests, and back again in the form of responses. When we refer to upstream services, we are describing components of the system that are closer to the user in the flow of information. When we refer to downstream services, we are describing components of the system that are further away from the user–in other words, the user makes a request that is routed to a service that then makes requests to other, downstream services, as shown in the following diagram:

In the preceding diagram, the originating...