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Embracing Microservices Design

You're reading from   Embracing Microservices Design A practical guide to revealing anti-patterns and architectural pitfalls to avoid microservices fallacies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818384
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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Timothy Oleson Timothy Oleson
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Nabil Siddiqui Nabil Siddiqui
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Overview of Microservices, Design, and Architecture Pitfalls
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Mindset for a Microservices Endeavor FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Failing to Understand the Role of DDD 4. Chapter 3: Microservices Architecture Pitfalls 5. Chapter 4: Keeping the Replatforming Brownfield Applications Trivial 6. Section 2: Overview of Data Design Pitfalls, Communication, and Cross-Cutting Concerns
7. Chapter 5: Data Design Pitfalls 8. Chapter 6: Communication Pitfalls and Prevention 9. Chapter 7: Cross-Cutting Concerns 10. Section 3: Testing Pitfalls and Evaluating Microservices Architecture
11. Chapter 8: Deployment Pitfalls 12. Chapter 9: Skipping Testing 13. Chapter 10: Evaluating Microservices Architecture 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Dapr versus service meshes

Both Dapr and the service mesh offer overlapping capabilities, raising the question of how Dapr compares to a service mesh and when one should be used over the other. While both Dapr and service meshes have the same goal of reducing complexity, their intended audiences are somewhat different. Dapr focuses on improving the developer experience by abstracting your microservices and offering a collection of building blocks to meet common microservices needs, whereas a service mesh helps application operators by providing a network service mesh that addresses networking concerns. Let's take a closer look at the similarities and differences between the two, as listed in the following table:

Table 6.2 – Comparing Dapr and service meshes

So, should you employ Dapr, a service mesh, or a hybrid of the two? Well, the answer depends on your needs. When using both Dapr and a service mesh, it might seem intuitive to activate the...

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