Chapter 9. Case study: Nodezoo.com

This chapter covers

  • Designing a full microservice system
  • Building core services
  • Creating a flexible development environment
  • Developing a risk-reducing, continuous delivery pipeline
  • Growing, adapting, and scaling the system

Working code is the best way to demonstrate any software engineering principle. You deserve to see what microservice code looks like in a real system, so that you can make a genuine assessment of the consequences of using this architecture. This chapter walks you through a small but complete system that covers all the topics discussed in this book.

This is a learning system, and there are many obvious omissions and flaws that would be fatal in production. This is deliberate, for ...

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