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PHP Microservices

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125377
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
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Carlos Pérez Sánchez Carlos Pérez Sánchez
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Pablo Solar Vilariño Pablo Solar Vilariño
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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

Design and architecture to build the basic platform for microservices


Creating an application based on microservices is not like a monolithic application. For this reason, we have to divide our functionalities into different services. To do this, it is important to follow an adequate design and structure each of the microservices according to its requirements.

The design takes care of dividing the application into logical parts and groups them according to their existing relationship. The architecture takes care of defining which concrete elements support each of the microservices, for example, where the data is stored or the communication between the services.

Throughout the book, we will follow the given structure for each microservice. In the following image, you will see the structure of one of the microservices, the rest of them are similar; however, some parts are optional:

All the requests for our microservices come from a REVERSE PROXY as this allows us to balance the load. Also,...

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