January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
74 pages
1h 50m
English
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Chapter 4. Outer Architecture
The outer architecture is the space between microservices and is by far the most difficult part. As we’ve pointed out throughout this book, microservices is a tradeoff from inner complexity to outer complexity. Broadly speaking, the outer architecture of microservices is the space between individual microservices. Think of it as anything that is not the responsibility of an individual microservice team.
Outer architecture includes all of the infrastructure on which individual microservices are deployed, discovering and connecting to microservices, and releasing new versions of microservices, communicating between microservices, and security. It’s a wide area that can become complex.
Outer architecture is best handled by a single team that is composed of your best programmers. You don’t need a big team—you need a small team of people who are really smart.
There is no number of ordinary eight-year-olds who, when organized into a team, will become smart enough to beat a grandmaster in chess.
Your goal should be to free up each microservice team to focus on just its own microservice.
Part of what complicates outer architecture is that most of the technology is brand new. The term “microservices” wasn’t used widely until 2013. The technology that powers the inner architecture is all widely established. After all, an individual microservice is just a small application.
Software-Based Infrastructure
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