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Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072212
Pages 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Chanaka Fernando Chanaka Fernando
Profile icon Chanaka Fernando

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics of Microservices Architecture and NATS
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Microservice Architecture 3. Chapter 2: Why Is Messaging Important in the Microservice Architecture? 4. Chapter 3: What Is NATS Messaging? 5. Section 2: Building Microservices with NATS
6. Chapter 4: How to Use NATS in a Microservice Architecture 7. Chapter 5: Designing a Microservice Architecture with NATS 8. Chapter 6: A Practical Example of Microservices with NATS 9. Chapter 7: Securing a Microservices Architecture with NATS 10. Chapter 8: Observability with NATS in a Microservices Architecture 11. Section 3: Best Practices and Future Developments
12. Chapter 9: How Microservices and NATS Coexist with Integration Platforms 13. Chapter 10: Future of the Microservice Architecture and NATS 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Challenges of the proposed microservice architecture with NATS

In the previous chapters, we went through practical examples of implementing microservices with their scope and data while sharing information in a secured manner through the NATS messaging technology. In this section, we are going to discuss some of the areas that we need to pay extra attention to when building applications with the proposed architecture.

Message delivery guarantees and error handling

NATS is designed to offer simplicity and performance to users. These design principles can sometimes make things challenging for certain applications. The NATS core technology offers an at- most -once message delivery guarantee. In this mode, a message is delivered to a subscriber no more than one time. So, there is a possibility of message loss here. This mode of operation is suited for many practical applications, including the scenarios mentioned here:

  • Applications that use a request-reply-based communication...
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