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JavaScript : Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

You're reading from   JavaScript : Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124660
Length 635 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dan Mantyla Dan Mantyla
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Simon Timms Simon Timms
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Chapter 11. Microservices

It seems like no book on programming these days is complete without at least some mention of microservices. For fear that this book could be singled out for ridicule as a non-conformant publication, a chapter has been included on microservices.

Microservices are billed as the solution to the problems of monolithic applications. Likely every application you've dealt with has been a monolith: that is, the application has a single logical executable and is perhaps split into layers such as a user interface, a service or application layer, and a data store. In many applications these layers might be a web page, a server side application, and a database. Monoliths have their issues as I'm sure you've encountered.

Maintaining a monolithic application quickly becomes an exercise in limiting the impact of change. Frequently in such applications a change to one, seemingly isolated, corner of the application has an unintended effect on some other part...

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