Practical microservices: Hands-on event-driven architectures with event sourcing and CQRS

Description

Model-view-controller (MVC) and CRUD are great tools for prototyping applications, but they inevitably lead development teams to the dreaded monolith wall, where progress slows to a crawl and everyone goes and applies for a new job. Microservices architecture can help you deliver value and stay productive in the long run.

Most tutorials on the subject meander through theory or completely miss the point of what it means to be microservice based, but not so with Ethan Garofolo. Here you’ll learn that a monolith is a data model and not a deployment or code organization strategy. You’ll experience how simply deploying pieces of your monolithic application onto different servers just leaves you with all the problems your monolith already has, only now with 100% more distributed system problems. You’ll learn precisely why this approach isn’t microservices.

With that out of the way, you’ll immerse yourself in a workable alternative: autonomous services that communicate via asynchronous messages and pub/sub. Through hands-on examples, you’ll see how pub/sub enables autonomy in the components of your system, and you’ll learn the basic building blocks of an autonomous microservices-based architecture.

You’ll model system state as events—records of things that have happened—then take those events and reshape them into formats that make sense for the UIs you need to provide your users. You’ll leave with an understanding of the basics of microservices and where to go to continue learning.