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Microservices in Action
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Microservices in Action

by Paulo A Pereira, Morgan Bruce
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 55m
English
Manning Publications
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6 Designing reliable services

This chapter covers

  • The impact of service availability on application reliability
  • Designing microservices that defend against faults in their dependencies
  • Applying retries, rate limits, circuit breakers, health checks, and caching to mitigate interservice communication issues
  • Applying safe communication standards across many services

No microservice is an island; each one plays a small part in a much larger system. Most services that you build will have other services that rely on them — upstream collaborators — and in turn themselves will depend on other services — downstream collaborators — to perform useful functions. For a service to reliably and consistently perform its job, it needs to be able to trust ...

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