MICROSERVICES

What are microservices?

Key benefits

What about service-oriented architecture?

Other de-compositional techniques

No silver bullet

Summary

INTEGRATION

Looking for the ideal integration technology

Interfacing with customers

The shared database

Synchronous vs. asychronous

Orchestration vs. choreography

Remote procedure calls (RPC)

REST

Implementing asynchronous event-base collaboration

Services as state machine

Reactive extensions

DRY and the perils of code reuse in a microservice world

Access by reference

Versioning

User interfaces

Integrating with 3rd-party software

Summary

MICROSERVICES AT SCALE

Failure is Everywhere

How Much Is Too Much?

Degrading Functionality

Architectural Safety Measures

The Antifragile Organization

Idempotency

Scaling

Scaling Databases

Caching

Caching for Writes

Auto-scaling

CAP Theorum

Service Discovery

Dynamic Service Registries

Documenting Services

The Self-Describing System

Summary