Chapter 15. Getting Started with Microservices

As a conclusion to the book, this chapter helps you think about how to get started with microservices. Section 15.1 enumerates the different advantages of microservices once more to illustrate that there is not only a single reason to introduce microservices but several. Section 15.2 describes several ways for introducing microservices—depending on the use context and the expected advantages. Section 15.3 finally follows up on the question of whether microservices are more than just hype.

15.1 Why Microservices?

Microservices entail a number of advantages such as the following (see also Chapter 4, “Reasons for Using Microservices”):

• Microservices make it easier to implement agility for large ...

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