As a prerequisite, you should have a basic understanding of microservices and software architecture style. Having a basic understanding could help you to understand the concepts and this book thoroughly.
After reading this book, you could implement microservices for on-premise or cloud production deployment and learn the complete life-cycle from design, development, testing, and deployment with continuous integration and deployment. This book is specifically written for practical use and to ignite your mind as a solution architect. Your learning will help you to develop and ship products for any type of premise, including SaaS, PaaS, and so on. We'll primarily use the Java and Java-based framework tools such as Spring Boot and Jetty, and we will use Docker as a container.
In this chapter, you will learn the eternal existence of microservices, and how it has evolved. It highlights the large problems that on-premise and cloud-based products face and how microservices deals with it. It also explains the common problems encountered during the development of SaaS, enterprise, or large applications and their solutions.
In this chapter, we will learn the following topics:
- Microservices and a brief background
- Monolithic architecture
- Limitation of monolithic architecture
- The benefits and flexibility that microservices offer
- Microservices deployment on containers such as Docker
