Microservices

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What?

Microservice Architecture

an implementation of Service Oriented Architecture which arranges an application as a collection of loosely coupled services

What is a service?

A discrete unit of functionality that can be accessed remotely and acted on independently

Properties of a service

  1. It logically represents a business activity with a specific outcome
  2. It is self-contained
  3. It is a black box for its consumers
  4. It may consist of underlying services

Why?

  • Natural adoption of Domain Driven Development
  • Reuse at a macro level
  • Efficient Scalability
  • Fault tolerance
  • Polygot development and persistence
  • Decentralized continuous delivery

How?

Identify business boundaries

Where to split?

  • Split at business functionality
  • Split at "extra" functionality
  • General modularity and isolation principles

Containerize early

Decide a primary tech stack

Orchestrate as needed

Gotchas

Gotchas

  • Exponential Operational Complexity
  • Distributed data is no play thing
  • Polygot development is a double edged sword
  • Reliable inter-service communication is hard

Anti-patterns

  • Shared Database
  • Overly-talkative services
  • Un-encapsulated services
  • Distributed monolith
  • Microservices as a goal
  • Focusing on technology

Buzzwords

Docker

  • Provides containerization
  • Useful with and without orchestration
  • You should probably use it

Kubernetes

  • Provides container orchestration
  • Don't jump into it too early. You'll hurt yourself in confusion

gRPC

  • Google's RPC implementation
  • Heavily uses HTTP/2
  • Bi-directional streaming communication
  • Most useful for inter-service communication
  • Clear contracts b/w services

Tips

Tips

  • Create a boilerplate early on (and maintain it as # of microservices grow)
  • Add monitoring early
  • Add log aggregation earlier
  • Use mono-repos

Opinions

Opinions

  • Services turn your O(n) complexity into O(n^a)
  • Start off with a monolith
  • JWTs rarely make sense outside of microservices architecture

Thank You!

Microservices

By Charanjit Singh

Microservices

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