Reactive Microsystems
The Evolution of Microservices at Scale


Book Details
Author | Jonas Bonér |
Publisher | O'Reilly Media |
Published | 2017 |
Edition | 1st |
Paperback | 84 pages |
Language | English |
ISBN-13 | 9781491994368, 9781491994351 |
ISBN-10 | 1491994363, 1491994355 |
License | Compliments of Lightbend |
Book Description
If you want your application to provide millisecond response times and close to 100% uptime, traditional architectures with single SQL databases and thread-per-request models simply cannot compete with microservices. This report discusses strategies and techniques for building scalable and resilient microservices, and helps you work your way through the evolution of a scalable microservices-based system.
When it comes to development speed, time-to-market, and continuous delivery, microservices can do wonders for your organization. Author Jonas Bonér, Founder and CTO of Lightbend and author of Reactive Microservices Architecture (O'Reilly), demonstrates how to refactor a monolithic application step-by-step. You'll briefly land at single-instance microliths (micro monoliths) before working your way toward a scalable and resilient microsystem.
This book will help you:
- Examine the essential traits of an individual reactive microservice
- Understand why monolithic architectures are a problem
- Manage the hard part of microservice design: the space between individual services
- Shift the focus from domain objects to events in domain-driven design
- Make services more efficient, performant, and stable by applying reactive programming techniques
- Make the services work together collaboratively, as a single reactive system
- Move beyond CRUD towards Event Sourcing/CQRS to scale state in an event-based design
- Leverage fast data in microservices to manage real-time data at scale
This book is published as open-access, which means it is freely available to read, download, and share without restrictions.
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