Chapter 10: Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures

This chapter builds upon the concepts we covered in Chapter 9, Serverless and Container Patterns. Now that we have covered the basics of containers and discovered what some of the most popular container implementations are today, we can continue to learn about higher-level concepts that will use containers to create modern, modular, and nimble applications. If your company operates in the cloud, it is very likely that they are taking advantage of the capabilities of the cloud. One architectural pattern that is extremely popular nowadays is the microservice architecture. At the beginning of Chapter 9, Serverless and Container Patterns, we mentioned some well-known companies that use containers. We won't repeat the list of companies again, but you can safely assume that these companies leverage containers to implement many microservices across the enterprise.

In this chapter, we will do a deep dive into the ins and outs...