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PHP Microservices

You're reading from   PHP Microservices Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125377
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos Pérez Sánchez Carlos Pérez Sánchez
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Pablo Solar Vilariño Pablo Solar Vilariño
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Preface 1. What are Microservices? FREE CHAPTER 2. Development Environment 3. Application Design 4. Testing and Quality Control 5. Microservices Development 6. Monitoring 7. Security 8. Deployment 9. From Monolithic to Microservices 10. Strategies for Scalability 11. Best Practices and Conventions 12. Cloud and DevOps

What is Cloud?

The fastest way to explain what we know as Cloud is by saying that the Cloud is the delivery of online services hosted on the Internet, but we can also say that Cloud allows us to consume digital resources in a very easy way. Some common Cloud services used these days are disk storage, virtual machines or TV services among others. As you can imagine, the main benefit of the Cloud is that we do not need to build and maintain these infrastructures at home.

As developers, you will know that Cloud is a good approach for our applications. Let's take a look at some advantages.

Autoscalable and elastic

When your application is online, it is impossible to predict whether the traffic will be very high in a few months or even a few days. Cloud allows us to have an autoscalable infrastructure that matches the traffic or consumption resources of our application. It can grow if your traffic is higher or decrease if your application does not have the traffic you hoped...

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