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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

Release cycles

A microservices architecture embraces rapid development and helps to shorten the release cycles for applications or services. The following aspects are important to discuss when evaluating this factor:

  • What is the frequency of building or releasing applications?
  • Are you following any practice of releasing the application versions—that is, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly?
  • How frequently does a deployment cause an outage?
  • How long does it take to recover from an outage?
  • Are the new service versions following semantic versioning?
  • Are the versions released first to staging and then production?
  • Are the application programming interfaces (APIs) following proper version guidelines?
  • What makes an API version change?
  • Have you implemented versioning?
  • What is your approach to handling HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) API versioning?
    • Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) path versioning
    • Query parameter versioning
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