August 2016
Beginner
146 pages
4h 2m
English
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Chapter 1. The Microservices Way
Microservices are a thing these days.
Phil Calçado, former Director of Engineering, SoundCloud
Building solutions with speed and safety at scale.
If you’re like most software developers, team leaders, and architects responsible for getting working code out the door of your company, this phrase describes your job in a nutshell. Most of you have probably struggled at this, too. Getting to market quickly seems to imply giving up a bit of safety. Or, conversely, making sure the system is safe, reliable, and resilient means slowing down the pace of feature and bug-fix releases. And “at scale” is just a dream.
However, a few years ago people started talking about companies that were doing just that. Shortening their time-to-market on new releases, actually improving their system reliability, and doing it all in runtime environments that were able to respond smoothly to unexpected spikes in traffic. These companies were “doing microservices.”
In this chapter we’ll explore what microservices are and what it means to build an application the microservices way. To begin with, we’ll explore the meaning of the term microservices by learning about its origin. Next, we’ll take a look at some of the biggest perceived barriers to adopting microservices. Finally, we share a simple perspective on application development that will help you better understand how all the pieces of microservices systems fit together, a balancing act of speed and safety that we call ...
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