Microservices Primer: A Short Overview

by Eberhard Wolff

The Primer gives a short overview of Microservices. It is a great ressource to get started with Microservices.

Content

What are Microservices?

- Size of Microservies
- Microservices, Domain-driven Design and Bounded Context
- Conway's Law and the impact on the Organization

Why Microservices?

- Scaling Agility
- Migrating Legacy Applications<
- Sustainable development
- Robustness
- Continuous Delivery
- Independent scalability
- Technology freedom

In the last chapter the primer gives hints how to start with Microservices.

Genres: Technology

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 17, 2016

About the author

Eberhard Wolff has 20+ years of experience as an architect and consultant - often on the intersection of business and technology. He is the Head of Architecture at SWAGLab in Germany. As a speaker, he has given talks at international conferences and as an author, he has written more than 100 articles and books e.g. about Microservices and Continuous Delivery. His technological focus is on modern architectures – often involving Cloud, Domain-driven Design, DevOps, or Microservices.

Reviews

[Ravi Sinha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and to-the-point, the book drives the point home that microservices, and not monolithic deployments, are the way forward in robust, scalable, and maintainable software architecture.

[Everson Luis de Campos Moura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brief introduction to microservices

The book is just a high level short introduction to microservices. If you have no idea about microservices, it is a good starting point. But, be aware that it is not enough to get a good understanding of the subject.

[Robin Pokorny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Works great as a super simple intro to what Microservices are. Do not expect anything remotely deep.

[Ferhat Elmas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice/short intro.