Microservice Architecture
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Get the book: Microservice patternsnew
Join the microservices google group
Other Resources
Events
- Various meetups that talk about microservices
Books
- Microservices in .NET by Christian Horsdal
- Building Microservices by Sam Newman
Articles
Chris Richardson
- Series of articles on the NGINX blog begining with Introduction to microservices
- Infoq.com article on microservices
- With other authors: InfoQ emag on microservices
Various articles on adopting microservices (see who is using microservices for more)
- Hailo: Series of blog posts
- Gilt: Making architecture work in microservices and Scaling Gilt: from Monolithic Ruby Application to Distributed Scala Micro-Services Architecture
- Soundcloud
- Yelp
- Uber
Martin Fowler
- Article on microservices
- Article on microservices tradeoffs
Victor Klang
- Article on microservices
Jeppe Cramon @jeppec
- Interesting series of articles on microservices
Benjamin Wootton
Presentations and videos
Adrian Cockford:
Fred George
The patterns
Core patterns
Decomposition
Deployment patterns
- Multiple service instances per host
- Service instance per host
- Service instance per VM
- Service instance per Container
- Serverless deployment
- Service deployment platformnew
Cross cutting concerns
Communication style
External API
Service discovery
- Client-side discovery
- Server-side discovery
- Service registry
- Self registration
- 3rd party registration
Reliability
Data management
- Database per Service
- Shared database
- Event-driven architecture
- Event sourcing
- Transaction log tailing
- Database triggers
- Application events
- CQRS
Security
- Access Tokennew
Testing
Observability
- Log aggregationnew
- Application metricsnew
- Audit loggingnew
- Distributed tracingnew
- Exception trackingnew
- Health check APInew
UI patterns