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Understand the use of a messaging backbone for inter-service communication in microservices architecture

Design and build a real-world microservices platform with NATS as the messaging backbone using the Go programming language

Explore security, observability, and best practices for building a microservices platform with NATS

Description

Building a scalable microservices platform that caters to business demands is critical to the success of that platform. In a microservices architecture, inter-service communication becomes a bottleneck when the platform scales. This book provides a reference architecture along with a practical example of how to implement it for building microservices-based platforms with NATS as the messaging backbone for inter-service communication. In Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS, you’ll learn how to build a scalable and manageable microservices platform with NATS. The book starts by introducing concepts relating to microservices architecture, inter-service communication, messaging backbones, and the basics of NATS messaging. You’ll be introduced to a reference architecture that uses these concepts to build a scalable microservices platform and guided through its implementation. Later, the book touches on important aspects of platform securing and monitoring with the help of the reference implementation. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on best practices to follow when integrating with existing platforms and the future direction of microservices architecture and NATS messaging as a whole. By the end of this microservices book, you’ll have developed the skills to design and implement microservices platforms with NATS.

Who is this book for?

This book is for enterprise software architects and developers who want to gain hands-on microservices experience for designing, implementing, and managing complex distributed systems with microservices architecture concepts. Intermediate-level experience in any programming language and software architecture is required to make the most of this book.

What you will learn

Understand the concepts of microservices architecture

Get to grips with NATS messaging technology

Handle transactions and message delivery guarantees with microservices

Implement a reference architecture for microservices using NATS

Discover how to improve the platform's security and observability

Explore how a NATS microservices platform integrates with an enterprise ecosystem

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Got a lot of insights into designing our Nats deployments.

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KI. Dec 15, 2021

This book provides a great overview of how to realize microservices architecture using NATS. It has a nice blend of microservices theory and practical examples of using messaging/streaming product such as NATS to build microservices based application.It covers most of the fundamentals that you would need to understand microservices architecture while diving into the details of NATS as an implementation technology for asynchronous inter-service communication.It also contains quite a few hands-on examples (using Go) on using NATS for the readers to try out.

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GeethM Feb 16, 2022

This is an excellent resource for learning about microservices and NATS. From the start, Chanaka was able to explain the subject matter in great depth, where the evolution of the distributed system and how it plays an integral aspect of current system design and deployment. As the world shifts further toward microservices, every software engineer must understand the fundamental ideas. This is where the book comes in handy. He has covered most of the subjects I am interested in, in a distributed system architecture, whether it is understanding security, governance, automation, componentization of services, or decentralized data management.The book also contains a plethora of information about the NATS (Neural Autonomic Transport System). It discusses how messaging and communication play an important role in system design by allowing systems to communicate data as messages. Chanaka describes in detail how various messaging protocols, such as pub-sub or request-response, interact in distributed systems. The graphics and pictures used in this book explain the facts better than the language and demonstrate the labor and attention required to compose this outstanding literature.This book includes several examples and practical implementations, particularly on how to use NATS in a microservice architecture. Overall, if you want to learn about modern system design and microservices, this book is a great place to start.

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Mahendra Samarawickrama Feb 16, 2022

This is a book that the industry has been waiting for a long time! Inter-service communication within a microservices architecture is critical in application development for enterprises. In this implementation process, maintaining the quality and performance is challenging. This book provides a complete guide to understanding and applying best practices when working with microservices, messaging, and NATS technology. This book works as a cookbook for microservice application development with example codes and illustrative block diagrams. I recommend this book to anyone who plans to implement their first microservices-based application or optimise their application.

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ravi Nov 19, 2021

Started reading this book wanting know more about NATS. What I found was a book that is not only great for learning about NATS but a book I would also recommend to someone starting out or early in their career who would also want to learn about Microservices Architecture (MSA). Skip to the fifth paragraph if, like me, you're only really interested in the NATS part.In the first couple of chapters Chanaka takes you on a journey of the evolution of distributed systems which is a great introduction for anyone new to distributed systems or a quick reminder for those who are more seasoned professionals.Chanaka introduces MSA by getting into the “why” of distributed systems (DS) and the specific challenges around it and explains a little about the history of distributed systems in enterprises. How we got from point-to-point mesh topologies to SOA & ESBs and finally to the more modern MSA with containerised deployments. I also enjoyed the small details Chanaka sometimes goes into on the side. Like on the topic of containerisation he also explains the basis for it and how it evolved from VMs and goes on to describe the differences between VMs and containers. This information adds a lot of value for those of us who weren’t around in industry when these things happened.Similarly the first couple of chapters also go into messaging patterns and introduces messaging tech like HTTP, gRPC, Kafka and of course NATS.The most interesting parts for me started with Chapter 3 where we really get into NATS, where you can learn about the roots of NATS as a ruby project that could do 75k messages per second to the Go based version you find today that can do 18 million messages per second. Chanaka describes the different messaging models supported by NATS: subject, pub-sub, request-reply w/without queue groups and does a deep dive into the protocol which I was surprised to find was a text based wire protocol at its heart. The book also contains some basic demonstrations of interacting with NATS and these are presented really well you don’t really need to try it out on your machine. The rest of the chapter goes into production deployments and how NATS clusters work along with monitoring & security.But Chapters 4, 5, and 6 is where it all comes together including a practical example of using NATS with MSA.I’m still reading the rest of this book but I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in NATS and MSA.

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Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS: A modern approach to designing and implementing scalable microservices platforms with NATS messaging

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