Microservices Foundations

Explore the basic concepts of microservices. Get the foundational knowledge you need to determine if this architectural model is the right fit for you and your team.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you need to know

1. About Microservices

• History of service-based architectures
• The monolithic application
• Services-oriented architecture
• Microservices: The new kid on the block
• Microservices: Solver of problems but not the silver bullet
• Microservices and cloud native

2. Microservices Core Concepts

• The services
• The communication dance
• Distribution and scale
• The dangers of latency and gridlock
• Bounded context
• Data domains as a service boundary
• No ACID, only BASE
• The API layer

3. Microservices Advanced Concepts

• Asynchronous communications
• Logging and tracing in a microservices architecture
• Continuous delivery as a requirement
• Hybrid architectures: Hierarchy and service-based

4. Making Architecture Choices

• Design considerations
• The tradeoffs
• An argument for edge services
• Embracing DevOps

Conclusion

• Next steps