Design patterns for microservices
This topic will cover the use of design patterns to mitigate challenges with microservices, as described in the preceding section. Later in this book, we will see how we can implement these design patterns using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes, and Istio.
The concept of design patterns is actually quite old; it was invented by Christopher Alexander back in 1977. In essence, a design pattern is about describing a reusable solution to a problem when given a specific context. Using a tried and tested solution from a design pattern can save a lot of time and increase the quality of the implementation compared to spending time inventing the solution ourselves.
The design patterns we will cover are as follows:
- Service discovery
- Edge server
- Reactive microservices
- Central configuration
- Centralized log analysis
- Distributed tracing
- Circuit breaker
- Control loop
- Centralized monitoring and...
