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Building Microservices with .NET Core

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887833
Pages 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Gaurav Aroraa Gaurav Aroraa
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Lalit Kale Lalit Kale
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Manish Kanwar Manish Kanwar
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

1. What Are Microservices? 2. Building Microservices 3. Integration Techniques 4. Testing Strategies 5. Deployment 6. Security 7. Monitoring 8. Scaling 9. Reactive Microservices 10. Creating a Complete Microservice Solution

Size of microservices


Before we start building our microservices, we should be clear about a few of its basic aspects, such as what factors to consider while sizing our microservices and how to ensure their isolation from the rest of the system.

As the name suggests, microservices should be micro. A question arises: what is micro? Microservices is all about size and granularity. To understand this better, let's consider the application discussed in Chapter 1What are Microservices?

We wanted the teams working on this project to stay synchronized at all times with respect to their code. Staying synchronized is even more important when we make a release of the complete project. For this, we needed to first decompose our application/specific parts into smaller functionalities/segments of the main service. Let's discuss the factors that need to be considered for high-level isolation of microservices:

  • Risk due to requirement changes: Changes in the requirements of one microservice should be independent...
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