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about the technology

Practically any application can be designed as a system of independent components, each of which handles a single responsibility. Individual microservices are easy for small teams without extensive knowledge of the entire system design to build and maintain. With microservices, your software is more resilient to bugs, better prepared for innovative new features, and allows more choice in tooling.

about the book

The Tao of Microservices, Second Edition reveals the path to building microservices that’s based on proven methods pioneered by microservices guru Richard Rodger. The book is focused on core concepts and methodologies that you can use for both big and small projects, and the architecture described is applicable to any programming language and platform. You'll learn the technical and cultural reasons why microservices succeed where monoliths fail, along with strategies to balance the new trade-offs demanded by the architecture.

On the tech side, you’ll master concepts like asynchronous messaging, service APIs, and encapsulation, and make sure your architecture properly considers system management and local development. Along the way, you'll dig deep into detailed case studies with source code and documentation, and you’ll explore best practices for team development, planning for change, and tool choice.

about the reader

This book is for software engineers, architects, and technical decision makers. Examples use JavaScript and Node.js.

about the author

Richard Rodger is the CEO of voxgig, a social network for the events industry. Richard has many years of experience building microservice-based systems for major global companies.