Introduction to Microservices Architecture

The chapter covers some essential microservices architecture concepts. It is designed to get you started with those principles and to give you an overview of the concepts surrounding microservices, which should help you make informed decisions about whether to go for a microservices architecture or not.

Since microservices architecture is larger in scale than the previous application-scale patterns we visited and often involves complex components or setup, there is limited C# code in the chapter. Instead, I explain the concepts and list open-source or commercial offerings that you can leverage to apply these patterns to your applications. Moreover, you should not aim to implement many of the pieces discussed in the chapter yourself, as it can be a lot of work to get them right, and they don’t add business value, so you are better off just using an existing implementation instead. There is more context about this throughout the...