Evolve the Monolith to Microservices with Java and Node

Table of contents

1. 0783442119Front cover
2. Notices
   1. Trademarks
3. Preface
   1. Authors
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4. Chapter 1. Overview of microservices
   1. 1.1 What is the microservices architecture
      1. 1.1.1 Small and focused around business domain
      2. 1.1.2 Technology neutral
      3. 1.1.3 Loosely coupled
      4. 1.1.4 Highly observable
      5. 1.1.5 Automation
      6. 1.1.6 Bounded context
   2. 1.2 Reasons for adopting the microservices architecture
      1. 1.2.1 Challenges with existing monolithic applications
      2. 1.2.2 Microservices for various stakeholders
      3. 1.2.3 Timing with availability of cloud era and other tooling
   3. 1.3 Transformation from a monolith to microservices
      1. 1.3.1 Fictional Company A business problem
      2. 1.3.2 Adopting microservices for an evolutionary architecture
5. Chapter 2. Evolution strategies
   1. 2.1 Microservices: An evolutionary architecture by nature
   2. 2.2 Evolutionary practices and patterns
      1. 2.2.1 Continuous integration, continuous delivery
      2. 2.2.2 Strangler application
      3. 2.2.3 Evolutionary database refactoring and deployment
   3. 2.3 Evolutionary architecture in practice
      1. 2.3.1 Gradually transforming to a catalog service
      2. 2.3.2 Strangling the customer and order components
      3. 2.3.3 Evolutionarily transforming the user interface to a UI microservice
6. Chapter 3. Identifying candidates within the monolith
   1. 3.1 Identifying candidates
   2. 3.2 Considerations for moving to microservices
   3. 3.3 Decomposing monolith application into microservices
      1. 3.3.1 Designing microservices
      2. 3.3.2 Choosing the implementation stack
      3. 3.3.3 Sizing the microservices
   4. 3.4 Refactoring
      1. 3.4.1 A reason to refactor to microservices
      2. 3.4.2 Strategies for moving to microservices
      3. 3.4.3 How to refactor Java EE to microservices
   5. 3.5 Identifying and creating a new architecture example
      1. 3.5.1 Architecture: As is
      2. 3.5.2 Architecture: To be
7. Chapter 4. Enterprise data access patterns
   1. 4.1 Distributed data management
   2. 4.2 New challenges
      1. 4.2.1 Data consistency
      2. 4.2.2 Communication between microservices
   3. 4.3 Integration with the monolith application
      1. 4.3.1 Modifying the monolith application
   4. 4.4 Which database technology to use
      1. 4.4.1 Relational databases
      2. 4.4.2 NoSQL databases
   5. 4.5 Practical example: Creating the new microservices
      1. 4.5.1 New microservice catalog search
      2. 4.5.2 Evolution of the account data model
8. Chapter 5. Security and governance
   1. 5.1 Security in microservice architecture
      1. 5.1.1 Authentication and authorization
      2. 5.1.2 Service-to-service authentication and authorization
      3. 5.1.3 Data security
      4. 5.1.4 Defence in depth
   2. 5.2 Governance in microservice architecture
   3. 5.3 The case study
      1. 5.3.1 Integrating and securing the monolith system
   4. 5.4 Summary
9. Chapter 6. Performance
   1. 6.1 Common problems
   2. 6.2 Antipatterns to avoid
      1. 6.2.1 N+1 service call pattern
      2. 6.2.2 Excessive service calls
      3. 6.2.3 Garrulous services
      4. 6.2.4 Lack of caching
   3. 6.3 Lead practices to improve performance
      1. 6.3.1 Let the service own its operational data
      2. 6.3.2 Avoid chatty security enforcement
      3. 6.3.3 Leverage messaging and REST
      4. 6.3.4 Fail fast and gracefully
10. Chapter 7. DevOps and automation
    1. 7.1 Deployment automation
       1. 7.1.1 Development
       2. 7.1.2 Build
       3. 7.1.3 Test
       4. 7.1.4 Deploy
    2. 7.2 Monitoring
       1. 7.2.1 Collecting data
       2. 7.2.2 Dashboard
       3. 7.2.3 Error handling
    3. 7.3 Performance
       1. 7.3.1 Automatic scalability
       2. 7.3.2 Service discovery
       3. 7.3.3 Load balancing
11. Appendix A. Additional material
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12. Related publications
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13. Back cover