Building Microservices / 2nd Edition by Sam Newman

The book that is honest about the trade. Sam Newman’s Building Microservices spends as much energy on the costs of distributed systems as on the benefits, and the second edition is noticeably more sceptical than the first — it opens by asking whether you should do this at all.

What the book covers

• What a microservice is, and the independent deployability that defines one
• Finding service boundaries using domain-driven design and information hiding
• Splitting a monolith incrementally, including database decomposition patterns
• Synchronous and asynchronous communication, and choosing between them
• Workflow: sagas, orchestration versus choreography, and distributed transactions
• Build pipelines, deployment, containers and progressive delivery
• Testing strategies, observability, resilience and security across services
• Team structure, Conway’s law, and the organisational cost of the architecture

Who it’s for

Software architects, senior engineers and technical leads evaluating or already living with a distributed architecture. Assumes real production experience; not an introductory text.

Edition details

• Author: Sam Newman
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781492034025
• Language: English

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