Practical Microservices

What You’ve Done So Far

You deployed Video Tutorials in this chapter! Hopefully it brings you joy thinking of all the people learning new things and all the content creators making a living using your creation. You’ve now operationalized a microservices-based system. This all started with an idea, and now you’ve taken that idea and are able to hit it in a web browser. Nice work!

To drive home the point of autonomy, consider the two halves in the distributed-video-tutorials folder. These two halves can run completely independently. Prove that to yourself. Start only the front end. Register a user. Click the “Record video viewing” button on the home page a few times. That view count won’t increment, and your user won’t be able to log in. Then ...