Microservices in Action

preface

Over the past five years, the microservice architectural style — structuring applications as fine-grained, loosely coupled, and independently deployable services — has become increasingly popular and increasingly feasible for engineering teams, regardless of company size.

For us, working on microservice projects at Onfido was a revelation, and this book records many of the things we learned along the way. By breaking apart our product, we could ship faster and with less friction, instead of tripping over each other’s toes in a large, monolithic codebase. A microservice approach helps engineers build applications that can evolve over time, even as product complexity and team size grow.

Originally, we set out to write a book about our ...