Practical microservices

Description

Microservices are all the rage these days. But what practical factors should you consider once you’ve taken the plunge? Marco Palladino provides a working framework of the architectural and organizational decisions senior technologists need to make in order to solve the right problems for their business.

You’ll learn the main factors to consider, including the proper size for your microservice, how your services should communicate, the structure of your development team, and transition strategies, all informed by Marco’s work helping Fortune 500 companies move to service-oriented architectures.

Topics include:

• The proper size for a microservice
• How to define the boundaries between your services
• Different modes for service-to-service communication
• Testing and observability during the transition
• Transition strategies
• Service connections to databases
• Routing and versioning strategies
• How to handle libraries and security to maximize service independence
• The impact that the transition process will have on development teams