Practical Event-Driven Microservices Architecture: Building Sustainable and Highly Scalable Event-Driven Microservices

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H. F. Oliveira RochaPractical Event-Driven Microservices Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7468-2_3

3. Defining an Event-Driven Microservice and Its Boundaries

Hugo Filipe Oliveira Rocha¹  

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Ermesinde, Portugal

 

This chapter covers:

• Understanding the structure of an event-driven microservice, associated message patterns, and common topologies

• Comprehend DDD (domain-driven design), how to apply it, and its concepts

• Using DDD to extract the domain’s bounded contexts and leverage the services’ boundaries

• How to avoid common pitfalls when designing the aggregate size and understanding its impact on downstream services

• What different characteristics to ...