Enabling Microservice Success

Preface

Microservice architectures can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organization and customers. If you get it right.

Get it wrong and you can end up with a complex mess that makes operation and maintenance very hard and leaves you with small teams trying to support lots of services, some of which they’ve never touched.

Adopting microservices goes beyond selecting an architectural approach. To be successful at doing microservices, you need to make cultural and organizational changes. You have to move toward autonomous, empowered teams.

That means that many things that used to be someone else’s concern are now the responsibility of engineering teams. You need to think beyond system design, architecture, and implementation. That includes considering how you will build systems that you can successfully operate in production, and how to maintain and manage them for the long term. You need to understand distributed systems architecture and are likely to be more hands-on with at least some parts of your infrastructure.

This book will help you with all of that. It gives practical advice on how to adopt a microservice architecture and how to make sure it still works for you once you are several years in, maintaining and sustaining your systems as they mature.

Why I Wrote This Book

The focus of this book is how to benefit from microservices for the long term. I want you to avoid getting several years in and looking around to find lots of accidental ...