September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
82 pages
1h 44m
English
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Chapter 8. Next Steps
We have covered a lot of ground in this report, yet for some of the topics we have just scratched the surface. I hope it has inspired you to learn more and to roll up your sleeves and try these ideas out in practice.
Further Reading
Learning from past failures1 and successes3 in distributed systems and collaborative services-based architectures is paramount. Thanks to books and papers, we don’t need to live through it all ourselves but have a chance to learn from other people’s successes, failures, mistakes, and experiences.
There are a lot of references throughout this report, I very much encourage you to read them.
When it comes to books, there are so many to recommend. If I had to pick two that take this story further and provide practical real-world advice, they would be Roland Kuhn’s excellent Reactive Design Patterns (Manning) and Vaughn Vernon’s thorough and practical Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Addison-Wesley).
Start Hacking
The good news is that you do not need to build all of the necessary infrastructure and implement all the patterns from scratch yourself. The important thing is understanding the design principles and philosophy. When it comes to implementations and tools, there are many off-the-shelf products that can help you with the implementation of most of the things we have discussed.
One of them is the Lagom4 microservices framework, an open source, Apache 2–licensed framework with Java and Scala APIs. Lagom pulls together most ...
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