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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices
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Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

by Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
9h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Big Ball of Mud anti-pattern

All sci-fi fans know or have heard of the Death Star. In the architecture of microservices, the name Death Star is used to describe the image created by the Big Ball of Mud anti-pattern, especially when we are using patterns like the chained design pattern.

The Big Ball of Mud anti-pattern occurs when developing microservices that we do not define well in the domains, which makes microservices dependent on one another to complete trivial tasks. This type of error generates a series of unnecessary calls between the microservices, creating complex problems of being corrected, such as latency and, in the worst cases, cyclic-deployed dependency.

The following diagram exemplifies the working of the Big Ball of Mud ...

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