Chapter 1 Hello, Service Fabric!

Welcome to Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to build large-scale, highly available, low-latency, and easily manageable services. Service Fabric brings you the same technology that empowers cloud-scale applications such as Cortana, Skype for Business, and Intune so you can easily design, implement, and manage your own services to leverage the power of next-generation distributed computing. Before you embark on your journey with Service Fabric, let’s first reflect on what microservices are about.

Microservices

Microservices are often viewed as an architecture pattern that decomposes applications into independent services. This is precisely the wrong way to view microservices. ...

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