Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
PHP Microservices

You're reading from   PHP Microservices Transit from monolithic architectures to highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125377
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Carlos Pérez Sánchez Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Author Profile Icon Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Carlos Pérez Sánchez
Pablo Solar Vilariño Pablo Solar Vilariño
Author Profile Icon Pablo Solar Vilariño
Pablo Solar Vilariño
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What are Microservices? FREE CHAPTER 2. Development Environment 3. Application Design 4. Testing and Quality Control 5. Microservices Development 6. Monitoring 7. Security 8. Deployment 9. From Monolithic to Microservices 10. Strategies for Scalability 11. Best Practices and Conventions 12. Cloud and DevOps

Routing


Routing is a mapping between the entry points of your application (requests) and a specific class and method in your source that executes your logic. For example, you can have defined in your application a mapping between the /users route and the method list() which is inside your Users class.  Once you have this mapping in place, as soon as your application receives a request for the route /users, it will execute all the logic you have inside the list() method (located in the Users class). Routing allows the API consumers to interact with your application. In microservices, the RESTful convention is the most used and we will follow it.

  • HTTP Methods:

    • GET: It is used to retrieve information about a specified entity or collection of entities. The amount of data does not matter; we will use GET for one or many results, and also we can use filters in order to filter the results.

    • POST: It is used to enter information in the application. It is also used to send new information in order...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime