Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Data

The topics of single responsibility, independent DURS, bounded context, and isolation come up over and over again in the context of microservices. I cover these topics at length in this book as well. The topic of a database per service also comes up over and over again in the same context. It's the combination of these topics that is rarely covered, though that is beginning to change. Earlier in this chapter, we discussed the critical idea of turning the database inside out and in turn how the cloud is the database. Bounded isolated data, as a part of the whole of a component, is fundamental to building cloud-native systems that are responsive, resilient, and elastic. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to gravitate toward shared monolithic ...