Practical Microservices

What You’ve Done So Far

You unmasked the monolith. You learned that monoliths are data models and that they speed up the near term at the expense of the long term by introducing high levels of coupling. You also learned that the most commonly recommended methods for dealing with this coupling don’t actually do anything to address the coupling.

Then you got your feet wet with the basics of message-based architecture. Messages are what make autonomous microservices possible, and autonomouse microservices are what make long-term productivity possible. This was no small amount of learning.

Taking those principles then, you came back to our problem at hand—how do we record video views without writing ourselves into an inescapable corner? You learned ...