“A comprehensive overview of the challenges teams face when moving to microservices, with industry-tested solutions to these problems.”

Tim Moore, Lightbend

44 reusable patterns to develop and deploy reliable production-quality microservices-based applications, with worked examples in Java

Key Features

• 44 design patterns for building and deploying microservices applications
• Drawing on decades of unique experience from author and microservice architecture pioneer Chris Richardson
• A pragmatic approach to the benefits and the drawbacks of microservices architecture
• Solve service decomposition, transaction management, and inter-service communication

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About The Book

Microservices Patterns teaches you 44 reusable patterns to reliably develop and deploy production-quality microservices-based applications. This invaluable set of design patterns builds on decades of distributed system experience, adding new patterns for composing services into systems that scale and perform under real-world conditions. More than just a patterns catalog, this practical guide with worked examples offers industry-tested advice to help you design, implement, test, and deploy your microservices-based application.

What You Will Learn

• How (and why!) to use microservices architecture
• Service decomposition strategies
• Transaction management and querying patterns
• Effective testing strategies
• Deployment patterns

This Book Is Written For

Written for enterprise developers familiar with standard enterprise application architecture. Examples are in Java.

About The Author

Chris Richardson is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star, author of Manning’s POJOs in Action, and creator of the original CloudFoundry.com.

Table of Contents

1. Escaping monolithic hell
2. Decomposition strategies
3. Interprocess communication in a microservice architecture
4. Managing transactions with sagas
5. Designing business logic in a microservice architecture
6. Developing business logic with event sourcing
7. Implementing queries in a microservice architecture
8. External API patterns
9. Testing microservices: part 1
10. Testing microservices: part 2
11. Developing production-ready services
12. Deploying microservices
13. Refactoring to microservices