August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
10h 7m
English
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Chapter 1. An introduction to microservices
This chapter covers
- Why move toward a new microservice architecture?
- What microservices are today, and where the future may lead
- The basic component makeup of a microservice
- Testing strategies
Traditional monolithic applications are deployed as a single package, usually as a web or enterprise-archive file (WAR or EAR). They contain all the business logic required to complete multiple tasks, often alongside the components required to render the user interface (UI, or GUI for graphical user interface). When scaling, this usually means taking a complete copy of that entire application archive onto a new server node (basically, deploying it to another server node in a cluster). It doesn’t matter where ...