Microservices can be a very effective approach for delivering value to your organization and to your customers. If you get them right, microservices help you to move fast, making changes to small parts of your system hundreds of times a day. But get them wrong and microservices just make everything more complicated.
In this book, technical strategist Sarah Wells provides practical, in-depth advice for moving to microservices. Having built her first microservices architecture in 2013 for the Financial Times, Sarah discusses the approaches you need to take from the start, and explains the potential traps most likely to trip you up. You'll also learn how to maintain the architecture as your systems mature while minimizing the time you spend on support and maintenance.
With this book, you
- Learn the impact of microservices on software development patterns and practices
- Identify the organizational changes you need to make to successfully build and operate this architecture
- Determine the steps you must take before you move to microservices
- Understand the traps to avoid when you create a microservices architecture—and learn how to recover if you fall into one
PLEASE When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
I want to start of by saying that there is lots of good solid information within the book. However, I struggle to understand who the book is really aimed at. Those who have spent some time working in a SOA/mircoservices environment will probably find that they have already dealt with most of the challenges outlined in the book. For those who have never worked in such an environment will most likely be overwhelmed by the amount of content in the book.
My only other criticism would be the FT centric view of things. Pretty much all of the concrete examples are taken from the authors time at the FT, but it would have been good to have attempted to gather a greater set of examples from more diverse range of organisations.