2 Creating your first microservice

This chapter covers

  • Our philosophy of development
  • Establishing a single-service development environment
  • Building a microservice for video streaming
  • Setting up for production and development
  • Using Node.js to run our microservice

Our goal for this book is to assemble an application that consists of multiple microservices. But before we can build multiple microservices, we must first learn how to build a single microservice. In this chapter, we’ll create our first microservice. This simple microservice does very little, but it illustrates the process so that you can understand it and repeat it. Indeed, this is the process we’ll use to create multiple microservices through the course of this book.

This first microservice ...

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