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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

Distributed transaction handling

Distributed transaction facilitates the execution of multiple operations as a single unit of work. In a distributed transaction, a command is an operation that performs a state change and causes an event to occur. These events might alert the next phase or the entire system of the transaction's success or failure. If they are successful, they can cause another command to be performed, which can then cause an event, and this will continue until all transactions are completed or rolled back, depending on whether the transaction is successful or not. Let's explore the important aspects to consider while evaluating this factor, as follows:

  • How many distributed transactions exist in the system?
  • What is your approach to handling distributed transactions—is it using an orchestrator or choreography pattern?
  • How many transactions span over multiple services?
  • Are you using a long-chain operation when a transaction spans...
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