Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

Guidelines for microservice development

The development of microservices is challenging, and getting them right is quite hard. Is there something we can do to make this process easier? It turns out that there are a couple of guidelines that, if followed, can help a lot in getting microservices right. So, let's take a look at these guidelines, as shown in the following list:

• Design before developing: When microservices development takes place, they are usually supposed to model a particular domain of responsibility. But this is also the point where the biggest mistakes occur. Usually, the boundaries of a service are not defined. During the later stages, as the domain evolves, the microservice also becomes complex so as to handle the increased ...