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Microservices Patterns

With examples in Java

Published by Manning
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

"A comprehensive overview of the challenges teams face when moving to microservices, with industry-tested solutions to these problems." - Tim Moore, Lightbend

44 reusable patterns to develop and deploy reliable production-quality microservices-based applications, with worked examples in Java

Key Features
  • 44 design patterns for building and deploying microservices applications
  • Drawing on decades of unique experience from author and microservice architecture pioneer Chris Richardson
  • A pragmatic approach to the benefits and the drawbacks of microservices architecture
  • Solve service decomposition, transaction management, and inter-service communication



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About The Book

Microservices Patterns teaches you 44 reusable patterns to reliably develop and deploy production-quality microservices-based applications. This invaluable set of design patterns builds on decades of distributed system experience, adding new patterns for composing services into systems that scale and perform under real-world conditions. More than just a patterns catalog, this practical guide with worked examples offers industry-tested advice to help you design, implement, test, and deploy your microservices-based application.

What You Will Learn




  • How (and why!) to use microservices architecture
  • Service decomposition strategies
  • Transaction management and querying patterns
  • Effective testing strategies
  • Deployment patterns







This Book Is Written For
Written for enterprise developers familiar with standard enterprise application architecture. Examples are in Java.

About The Author
Chris Richardson is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star, author of Manning’s POJOs in Action, and creator of the original CloudFoundry.com.

Table of Contents


































  1. Escaping monolithic hell
  2. Decomposition strategies
  3. Interprocess communication in a microservice architecture
  4. Managing transactions with sagas
  5. Designing business logic in a microservice architecture
  6. Developing business logic with event sourcing
  7. Implementing queries in a microservice architecture
  8. External API patterns
  9. Testing microservices: part 1
  10. Testing microservices: part 2
  11. Developing production-ready services
  12. Deploying microservices
  13. Refactoring to microservices



























About The Author

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. He is the creator of http://microservices.io, a website describing how to develop and deploy microservices. Chris provides microservices consulting and training and is working on his third startup http://eventuate.io, an application platform for developing microservices. Blog: http://plainoldobjects.com/, Twitter: @crichardson.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Manning (October 27, 2018)
  • Length: 520 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781638356325

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