Extending Your Cloud-Native Application

Having understood the design principles, let's take the skeleton services developed in Chapter 2, Writing Your First Cloud-Native Application, and do some real work on them to make them production-ready.

We defined two get services; getProduct for a given a product ID, and getProducts for a given category. These two services have highly non-functional requirements. They always have to be available and serve the data with the lowest possible latency. The following steps will take us there:

1. Accessing data: Service access to data across various resources
2. Caching: Options to do caching and their considerations
3. Applying CQRS: Enable us to have different data models to service different requests
4. Error handling: How to recover, what return codes to send, and implementation of patterns such as a circuit breaker

We will also look at adding...