SummaryMicroservices in Action is a practical book about building and deploying microservice-based applications. Written for developers and architects with a solid grasp of service-oriented development, it tackles the challenge of putting microservices into production.

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About the TechnologyInvest your time in designing great applications, improving infrastructure, and making the most out of your dev teams. Microservices are easier to write, scale, and maintain than traditional enterprise applications because they're built as a system of independent components. Master a few important new patterns and processes, and you'll be ready to develop, deploy, and run production-quality microservices.

About the BookMicroservices in Action teaches you how to write and maintain microservice-based applications. Created with day-to-day development in mind, this informative guide immerses you in real-world use cases from design to deployment. You'll discover how microservices enable an efficient continuous delivery pipeline, and explore examples using Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Container Engine. What's insideAn overview of microservice architectureBuilding a delivery pipelineBest practices for designing multi-service transactions and queriesDeploying with containersMonitoring your microservicesAbout the ReaderWritten for intermediate developers familiar with enterprise architecture and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP.About the AuthorMorgan Bruce and Paulo A. Pereira are experienced engineering leaders. They work daily with microservices in a production environment, using the techniques detailed in this book.

Table of ContentsPART 1 - The lay of the landDesigning and running microservices Microservices at SimpleBankPART 2 - DesignArchitecture of a microservice application Designing new features Transactions and queries in microservices Designing reliable services Building a reusable microservice framework PART 3 - DeploymentDeploying microservices Deployment with containers and schedulers Building a delivery pipeline for microservices PART 4 - Observability and ownershipBuilding a monitoring system Using logs and traces to understand behavior Building microservice teams