January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
14h 32m
English
Since a microservice is a small but complete web server, you have to deploy it as a complete server. But since it has a narrow scope of features, it's also simpler to configure. Containers can help you pack your binaries into an image of the operating system with the necessary dependencies to simplify deployment.
This differs from the case with monoliths, in which you have a system administrator who installs and configures the server. Microservices need a new role to carry out this function—DevOps. DevOps is not just a job role, but a whole software engineering culture in which developers become system administrators and vice versa. DevOps engineers are responsible for packing and delivering the software to the ...
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