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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

Direct client-to-microservice communication

In client-to-microservice communication, the client talks directly to the microservice. This approach is simple to implement, but it introduces tight coupling between the client and microservice, which makes the client more susceptible to breaking changes. Breaking changes are highly discouraged and should be avoided to ensure backward/forward compatibility. Further, the client needs to be aware of the business use cases and how it can address them by calling different microservices that result in violating the domain-driven design. Additionally, each microservice call will result in additional latency that affects user experience and mobility. Exposing multiple microservices directly to clients will expand the attack surface and will make the system and organization susceptible to attacks. Another challenge with direct communication is the synchronous calling of services, which undermines the benefits of microservices. The following diagram...

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