Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems 1st Edition

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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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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 and 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.

About the Author

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.

Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 20, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1491950358
ISBN-13: 978-1491950357
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Nicely targeted to the second-time architect.

ByBrian Marickon May 9, 2015

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My context: I helped build a system with a Rails "middle end" that talked to about eight microservices, and then moved that from Heroku to AWS. So I'm not a novice, but I still have a lot to learn. This book is nicely targeted at people like me. In fact, throughout I was thinking "I'll use this as a checklist next time I'm building a system" and then I was pleased to discover that the final, summary chapter is essentially that checklist.

My only negative comments are these:
* The writing up until chapter 4 seemed somewhat dry, then picked up its pace and became more conversational. However, the earlier chapters' topics are important (and used throughout the book), so don't skip them.
* There's some jargon in the text that's unexplained. Most of it I already knew or could puzzle out, but I'm still curious what a "full-fat virtual machine" is. A glossary would have been nice.
* There are a good number of useful references (with and without URLs) that I hope to check out someday. That would be easier if there were a comprehensive list of references at the end.

Note: I'm not a fan of code- or diagram-heavy technical books on reading devices, but if I were doing it again, I'd buy the kindle version.

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A must read if you are interested in developing microservices

ByJohnCanessaon September 8, 2017

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In the past few years there has been a push to further move away from monolithic systems to micro services. This book provides food for thought as to what to expect before embarking on such journey. Highly recommend the book. As usual, one needs to take all suggestions with a grain of salt and have a good understanding on the system / requirements for the target product / service.

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Loved it as an introduction to Microservices design and concepts

ByPedro Miguel Sousa Silvaon August 20, 2017

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As someone who is still starting out on building systems based in microservices I was looking for a book that could tell me about common practices and flaws and I found that and more, learning about concepts I still had no idea were present in the world of microservices.

The author manages to present the subject focusing on concepts rather than technologies. He does mention many technologies (and I'm glad he does) but always after explaining the concept and why it is good/bad (good is circumstantial).

I don't consider this to be highly technical book, more of an eye opener on the subject of microservices. It is a very please read and I consider it to be well organised.

Even tho I read it from front to cover one can always use it as a reference book for different subjects due to it's organisation.

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The book does not have any substance behind it and I don't see how this could be useful for the beginner nor an experienced software developer

ByLaimonas Simutison August 25, 2017

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The author went for the breadth vs depth and reading the book it clearly shows. A myriad of topics mentioned but not covered in any kind of detail. Perhaps you could use this book as a jumping off point but I doubt it would work for that either. The book does not have any substance behind it and I don't see how this could be useful for the beginner nor an experienced software developer. Still giving it three stars as the style is clear and easy to read and it does try to enumerate all the appropriate topics that are involved when it comes to building the microservices. I just wish it covered them a bit deeper.

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Amazing read. Highly recommend to any level of Software Engineering

ByManoj Kintalion August 7, 2016

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This book really is the perfect balance between laying out just the groundwork for understanding micro services and giving great examples and references on how to actually implement some of the concepts. If you're a junior engineer or an architect, this is a must read!

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Bounds the scope and simplifies the reasons

ByPopoon April 29, 2017

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Read it before getting into cloud world. A few years later , it's an even better read after having gained some experience. In fact still relevant despite the rapid new services that makes cloud even simpler.

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excellent

Bya verified purchaseron December 15, 2015

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nowadays everybody is talking about microservices and a lot of people don't understand the word. most don't know the difference between microservices vs monolithic services - which means they don't understand the power in the use of microservices. this is just my experience with devs, especially devs from the .NET/Microsoft world. anyway, this book is a great, understandable reference to get those still unclear about microservices over the hurdle of understanding the differences between monolithic services and microservices and how you can leverage microservices to easily scale large applications fairly easily.

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Everything You Need in < 300 Pages

ByStanley Guzikon August 4, 2015

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I've been developing web software for 20 years and manage a global team of 800. I was looking for a microservice book that gets right into microservice and the design patters around integration, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, security and etc... This book make it to my monthly technology book club list. It is also required reading for many engineers on my teams.

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It's awesome. One of the best technical books that I ...

It's awesome. One of the best technical books that I have ever read.
Must read for everyone who's working with microservices architecture.

Published 6 days ago by Serge Bishyr

Detailed discussion on microservices, highly recommend

Detailed discussion of options, practices and challenges of microservices. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to start using this architectural pattern and to those who...Read more

Published 9 days ago by Alexandru Bolboaca

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Good book on microservice design/development

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I'm still just at chapter 6 but so far is a good book. Very informal and easy to read.

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I highly recommend this read

Lots of practical knowledge building out modern day services. I highly recommend this read!!!

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Great read and should follow The Phoenix Project and DevOps handbook

One you discover the rabbit hole of agile actually takes you to a DevOps culture, microservices becomes an obvious advantage to enable decoupled teams, reduce hands-offs, isolate...Read more

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Great high-level overview

This is an excellent overview of microservice architecture. It won't give you a definitive answer to all your questions about what to build and why, but it will help you...Read more

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The book is basically talking some average stuff, not ...

The book is basically talking some average stuff, not very interesting.
If you are working in the FANG tier companies, you already knew these average stuff.

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