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Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.

Microservice technologies are moving quickly. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. You ll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain.

Discover how microservices allow you to align your system design with your organization s goals
Learn options for integrating a service with the rest of your system
Take an incremental approach when splitting monolithic codebases
Deploy individual microservices through continuous integration
Examine the complexities of testing and monitoring distributed services
Manage security with user-to-service and service-to-service models
Understand the challenges of scaling microservice architectures

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1491950358
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O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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17 Feb. 2015
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English
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17.78 x 1.5 x 23.34 cm
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What Are Microservices?

Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together. Let’s break that definition down a bit and consider the characteristics that make microservices different.

The benefits of microservices are many & varied. Many of these benefits can be laid at the door of any distributed system. Microservices, however, tend to achieve these benefits to a greater degree primarily due to how far they take the concepts behind distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.

Key benefits include

Technology Heterogeneity
Resilience
Scaling
Ease of Deployment
Organizational Alignment
Composability
Optimizing for Replaceability.


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Designing Fine-Grained Systems

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Sam Newman is a technologist at ThoughtWorks, where he currently splits his time between encouraging and sharing Innovation globally and helping design and build their internal systems. He has worked with a variety of companies in multiple domains around the world, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. If you asked him what he does, he d say I work with people to build better software systems . He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. He is currently writing a book, Building Microservices, which should be available in the Autumn of this year from O'Reilly.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1st edition (17 Feb. 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491950358
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491950357
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.5 x 23.34 cm

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Sam Newman is an author, speaker, and independent consultant interested in cloud, continuous delivery and microservices. Aside from other things he's spoken at more than a few conferences, and wrote some things including the books Building Microservices and Monolith To Microservices for O'Reilly.

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Ilia

Must read

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Love the book! Pretty descriptive and detailed!

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Luke

An interesting look into the development of Systems...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 December 2019

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As other reviewers have said - the author is clearly a Java Junkie. But this does not change the fact that almost all of what is being said is relevant to System Architecture. AWS is used is various examples very well, and the process of converting a monolith into a set of microservices is overall well documented.

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Reuben Tonna

A pragmatic introduction to micro services

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The approach is both practical and pragmatic and well grounded in the realities of building software systems based on a micro service architecture. It will not answer all your questions as every system is unique, but definitely provides solid guidelines to succeed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 March 2015

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This is a great book to read as a primer and to get an overview of technologies and patterns to do with micro-services. It covers a number of uncommon topics, including dealing with "static" data. It's great to see anti-patterns covered too, including using the database as a point of integration.

I don't think that it would have hurt the book to be slightly longer and have a little more flesh to some of the topics like HATEOAS, persisting references to other services, benefits and downsides of MQs etc.

It covers a broad scope well and feels pretty balanced in what it presents, also linking you to many other great sources for further reading.

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Seth Corker

Excellent

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A great read that is easy to follow and thoroughly enjoyable. The author breaks down concepts so they’re concise and understandable without going too deep into the implementation detail.

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Olivier Van Acker

This is not the silver bullet you're looking for

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 September 2016

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There was a lot of buzz about microservices a while ago and being on a large project with lots of Enterprise Architecture elements. (ESB/mainframes/Java containers/etc) I decided to jump on the boat and promote the architecture/technology approach myself. I had some initial conversations with the developers and architects on the project and everyone was positive and interested in it. So to prepare myself I decided to read to book. At first I was pleasantly surprised. Every chapter touched on a certain topic and suggested technologies, best practices and how to approach it. It gives you a good overview what is current in today's technology landscape, although some of the tech is already getting out of fashion as we speak.

Unfortunately the book fails dramatically in two, in my opinion, major points:

1) The book doesn't give a proper definition of Microservices
In practice this lead to a lot of confusion discussing the subject. Everyone has their own ideas and opinions about it, so it takes ages to get everyone aligned. You need to have some sort of definition people can follow before you start working on your product, otherwise you risk ending up with incompatible components and a lot of confusion on how to solve problems. If you compare this with agile software development: In the end of the day you can always refer back to the Agile Manifesto.

2) No explanation on how to do orchestration or choreography
Most chapters start with explaining a specific topic and end with suggesting an approach & technologies. Not with Orchestration vs Choreography in chapter 4. It tells you that orchestration implementations are extremely brittle and you should go for choreography. And that's where it stops. No suggested technologies or approaches whatsoever. Choreography is a hard to solve distributed problem. There are numerous academic papers researching the topic and countless blog posts talking about it, most of them agreeing on two points: choreography is very hard to get right and it gets exponentially more difficult if your system scales in functionality. In my opinion you can't just suggest a complex abstract idea and leave it to the reader to solve it for themselves. Executing your services in the correct order, without duplication, with failover and rollback is in some use cases hugely important.

That said, there are numerous stories starting to pop up of tech companies where development has grind to a halt because of a microservices architecture.

One thing I noticed is that Microservices are easy to sell. It gives your audience the impression you can easily solve a difficult problem by chopping it up in small easy to digest pieces as long as you surround it with well known good software development practices. This book will certainly help you sell this idea but as we all know by now there is no silver bullet to be found in software development.

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Cube

Very good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 July 2015

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Although I am still reading the book, I can already say that it's very well written.
The author is highly knowledgeable and seems to have a lot of experience with microservices which he shares in this book.
The book is also beginner friendly, and the author gives a nice overview about microservices at the beginning and throughout the book shows best practices for building them. He also writes everything in a very implementation-agnostic way, so this book will benefit you no matter which technology stack you use.

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Darren

Great Overview of Microservices

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I taken this book and mapped out key practices, and worked with our teams to implement it’s been good to have a guild for the different trade-offs and to understand the problems that needs solving highly recommend a read.

Also a good source for a read list to learn in detail the concepts described.

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