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Microservices Recipes

Eberhard Wolff and INNOQ

There is a huge number of technologies to choose from when it comes to implementing a microservices system. This brochure gives an overview of "recipes" that show how some technologies can be used and combined to implement a microservices system - including sample code on GitHub.

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About the Book

This brochure includes technology recipes for the implementation of microservices. The code for the examples can be downloaded for free.

Content

What are Microservices?

  • Independent Systems Architecture Principles
  • Self-contained Systems

Frontend integration

  • Why frontend integration?
  • Recipe: ESI (Edge Side Includes)
  • Alternative recipe: links and JavaScript

Asynchronous microservices

  • Definition: asynchronous microservices
  • Why asynchronous microservices?
  • Recipe: Kafka
  • Alternatives recipe: Atom

Synchronous Microservices

  • Definition: synchronous microservices
  • Why synchronous microservices?
  • Recipe: Kubernetes
  • Alternative recipe: Netflix, Consul, Cloud Foundry

The last chapter explains how to deepen the knowledge about technologies for microservices further.

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Eberhard Wolff

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.

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INNOQ

We’re an IT consultancy with offices in Germany and Switzerland. We provide software architecture consulting, product development, and training services.

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Acknowledgement

Basics: Microservices

  1. Independent Systems Architecture (ISA) Principles
  2. Terms
  3. Principles
  4. Reasons
  5. Self-contained Systems
  6. Conclusion & Outlook

Concept: Frontend Integration

  1. Why Frontend Integration?
  2. Recipe: ESI (Edge Side Includes)
  3. Alternative Recipes: Links and JavaScript
  4. Conclusion
  5. Experiments

Concept: Asynchronous Microservices

  1. Definition
  2. Why Asynchronous Microservices?
  3. Recipe: Messaging with Kafka
  4. Alternative Recipe: REST with Atom
  5. Conclusion
  6. Experiments

Concept: Synchronous Microservices

  1. Definition
  2. Why Synchronous Microservices?
  3. Challenges
  4. Recipe: Kubernetes
  5. Alternative Recipes: Netflix, Consul, Cloud Foundry
  6. Conclusion
  7. Experiments

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