4 Data management for microservices
This chapter covers
- Using Docker Compose to build and run our microservices application for development and testing
- Adding file storage to our application
- Adding a database to our application
When building any application, we’ll typically need to deal with data, files, and sometimes both. Microservices are no different. We need a database to store dynamic data that’s generated and updated by the application, and we need a place to store assets that are served by the application or uploaded to it.
In this chapter, we add both file storage and a database to our FlixTube example application. First, we’ll add file storage so FlixTube has a location to store its videos. We want to have distinct areas of responsibility ...
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