Practical Microservices

Key Features

Leverage the power of microservices to build a flexible and efficient system in Java
See Docker and Spring Boot in practice to form easily deployable microservices
Hands-on approach throughout the book in order to familiarize and grasp the details

Book Description

A microservice architecture helps you build your application as a suite of different services. This approach has been widely adopted as it helps to easily scale up your application with reduced dependencies. This way if a part of your application is corrupted, it can be fixed easily thereby eliminating the possibility of completely shutting down your software. This book will teach you how to leverage Java to build scalable microservices. You will learn the fundamentals of this architecture and how to efficiently implement it practically.

We start off with a brief introduction to the microservice architecture and how it fares with the other architectures. The book dives deep into essential microservice components and how to set up seamless communication between two microservice end points. You will create an effective data model and learn different ways to test and deploy a microservices. You will also learn the best way to migrate your software from a monolith to a microservice architecture.

Finishing off with monitoring, scaling and troubleshooting, this book will set a solid foundation for you to start implementing microservices.

What you will learn

The role of a discovery service and externalized configuration in the overall architecture
Use of message brokers for event driven microservices
How to intermix data management strategies across components
Implementing different types of tests in Spring Boot environment
Applying CI to our microservices style architecture
Walk through of monitoring and scaling the sample application

About the Author

Umesh Ram Sharma is a developer with more than 8 years of experience in the architecture, design, and development of scalable and distributed cloud-based applications.

He was awarded a master's degree from Karnataka State Open University in Information Technology. With a core interest in microservices and Spring, he is an expert in the utilization of various offerings of the J2EE, Java Script, Struts, Hibernate, and Spring stack. He also has hands-on experience of technologies such as AWS, J2EE, MySql, MongoDB, memchached, Apache, Tomcat, and Hazelcast.

Currently working as a Principal Lead Engineer at ZestMoney, he helps his team migrate their running project to microservices.

In his free time, he enjoys driving, cooking, and attending conferences on new technologies.

Table of Contents

Introduction to microservices architecture
Defining microservice components
Communication between microservice endpoints
Securing microservice endpoints
Creating an effective data model
Testing Microservices
Deploying Microservices
Evolving the existing system
Monitoring and scaling
Troubleshoot microservices