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 interested in how different aspects of technology intersect, from development, to ops, to security, usability, and organizational structures. After 20 years in the industry, Sam now runs his own consulting and training company Sam Newman and Associates, focusing in the area of Microservices, Cloud and CI/CD.

Sam has worked with a variety of companies across multiple industries all over the globe, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Sam is the author of the bestselling Building Microservices 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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vrto

It's not only about microservices, it is a great book on modern distributed systems architecture

November 14, 2016

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You wanted to read a hispter guide on how microservices are a silver bullet and how should you never ever build a monolithic system again? Sorry, this is not the book for ya. This is not another buzzwordy book on microservices, this is actually a very mature book on modern software architecture - building distributed systems using smaller-sized services (microservices if you will) instead of building large monolithic systems.

In my opinion this book should be read by people used to building traditional monolithic applications, using layered architecture and backed by a relational database.

The author (Sam Newman) will talk about distributed systems in general and new challenges introduced by a migration towards this style. Microservices aren't a silver bullet and perhaps you shouldn't event start with building one, monolithic codebases are fine for short or mid term runs, you can iterate fast, and refactoring and re-shuffling is easy. Once you have solid understanding of your business domain then you could start considering the migration to smaller services (the catch here is to identify the time when this is needed, it shouldn't be neither too soon nor too late). Facade design pattern is a good friend for building coarse-grained services (within the monolith) and then splitting them to smaller services.
Continuous delivery changes once you own multiple microservices (and heck, people can actually OWN them now!), and how not to design for future (sharing via database is plain wrong and introduces terrible amounts of coupling). The only thing I wish was different is the title, it looks like it is trying to take advantage of the new buzzword, but to me this seems like second edition of M. Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Software Architecture". And that's a must read.

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Brian Marick

Nicely targeted to the second-time architect.

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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F Zaidi

Decent topic coverage, lacks depth

October 22, 2017

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The book covers interesting topics and some of the existing technologies around the use of microservices. There is a decent discussion surrounding the recommendations it makes in order to split a monolith into microservices and the suggested steps. It even has a brief intro of the security issues in creating and running the microservices. It covers a lot of ground, but nothing in depth. The books uses an example of a hypothetical musical store which is built with microservices. I found the example to be a very simple one, without really furnishing many practical details that would've given more insight and intuition into running a micro services based architecture.
The book is very verbose in the topics it discusses and sometimes its hard to stay attentive as the author talks about various topics. If the author had given a few real word examples of microservices running in the industry and had done a in-depth analysis of the pros and cons of the choices made while running the services, then I would've been able to gain a better insight. If the hypothetical Music store used in the book would've been developed in depth, with a good coverage of all aspects of running a business, then it could've been more useful too.
It also recommends some other good books, a few of which I've read already.
In conclusion, this book should be just treated as an intro to the topic of building microservices, but will require a lot more investigation and effort on the part of a reader to run a practical microservice in production.

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John H

This book is about continuous deployment, cloud enablement, ...

August 29, 2016

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This book is about continuous deployment, cloud enablement, and microservices. Its scope is very broad, but some may feel it doesn't hit enough depth on any one topic. It's geared slightly more towards very technical IT leads/managers and architects. Not necessarily developers, designers and engineers. Unless they are looking for awareness. I really appreciated all of the tools and references the author gives. Some of these may go obsolete over time. The book is very timely for folks that want to do mictoservices immediately.

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