July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
11h 18m
English
One of the biggest challenges in migrating monolithic applications to microservices is to manage reference data. A simple approach is to build the reference data as another microservice itself, as shown in the following diagram:

In this case, whoever needs reference data should access them through the microservice endpoints. This is a well-structured approach, but could lead to performance issues, as encountered in the original legacy system.
An alternate approach is to have reference data as a microservice service for all the admin and CRUD functions. A near cache will then be created under each service to incrementally ...
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