Microservices: Up and Running

Chapter 1. Toward a Microservices Architecture

The goal of this book is to help you build a working microservices architecture. In pages you’ll find opinionated and prescriptive advice for building software. That advice comes from real practitioner experiences that we’ve gathered, both from successful implementations and the ones that could have gone better. We’ve refined these lessons into a model that we hope will get you up and running faster with your own system.

Recently, the microservices style of building software has exploded in popularity. In the early 2010s, the term microservices emerged as a way to describe a new style of software architecture. Applications built in this newly named style are built with small, independent components that work together. Since then, adoption rates for the microservices style have skyrocketed. Startups, enterprise companies, and everyone in between have been learning and implementing microservices-style architectures. The growing ecosystem of tools, services, and solutions in this space is testament to its widespread popularity. At the time of this writing, Allied Market Research has predicted that the global market for microservices architectures will grow to $8.07 billion USD in 2026, from the current $2.07 billion USD. These kinds of numbers indicate a lot of interest, a lot of adoption, and lots and lots of microservices work.

For many, building software in the microservices way has turned out to be a challenge. The truth is that ...