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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

Not abstracting common microservice tasks

Abstracting microservices is a practice used in the implementation of microservice architecture. Mostly, the abstraction layer sits on the API gateway layer, which provides various cross-cutting concerns for abstracting common tasks. However, there are various tools available in the market that allow abstraction without adding abstraction to the API gateway layer and help with performing common tasks.

Not abstracting microservices seems to be an anti-pattern since it requires learning effort at the team level, plus it introduces challenges concerning the limitations of the underlying technology and the platform you are targeting. For example, let's say you are building a service in the Go language, and the message broker doesn't support the SDK to communicate with that service. In this case, if we can create an abstraction layer that communicates with the message broker, the service will help the team consume it, instead of reinventing...

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