Summary
Databases are a critical part of application development, and we need to ensure that we make the right decisions as early as possible. The technology, type of storage mechanism, and supporting application logic all play a large role in making our application as effective as possible in implementing business requirements. In this chapter, we explored the different considerations involved when developing supporting databases for microservices, the best type of database to use and when, and choosing a pattern of development that helps us to reduce redundant code.
In the next chapter, we will investigate implementing transactions across multiple services and databases using the saga pattern, since this is a big issue when we choose the database-per-service approach to microservice architecture.
