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Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python
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Hands-On Docker for Microservices with Python

by Jaime Buelta
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1

  1. What is a monolith?

A monolith is a software application that is created in a single block. This application runs as a single process. It can only be deployed in unison, although multiple identical copies can be created.

  1. What problems can monoliths run into?

As they grow, monoliths can experience the following problems:

  • The code becomes too big and difficult to read.
  • Scalability problems.
  • The need to coordinate deployments.
  • Bad usage of resources.
  • It's not possible to use conflicting technologies for different situations (for example, different versions of the same library, or two programming languages).
  • A single bug and deployment can affect the whole system.
  1. Can you describe the microservice architecture?

The microservice ...

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