Reader small image

You're reading from  Building Microservices with .NET Core

Product typeBook
Published inJun 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781785887833
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Authors (3):
Gaurav Aroraa
Gaurav Aroraa
author image
Gaurav Aroraa

Gaurav Aroraa has done M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, life time member of Computer Society of India (CSI), certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav serves as a mentor at IndiaMentor, open source developer, contributor to TechNet Wiki co-founder of Innatus Curo Software LLC. In 19+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his twitter handle @g_arora
Read more about Gaurav Aroraa

Lalit Kale
Lalit Kale
author image
Lalit Kale

Lalit Kale is a technical architect and consultant with more than 12 years of industry experience. Lalit has helped clients achieve tangible business outcomes through the implementation of best practices in software development. He is a practitioner of TDD and DDD, and a big believer in agile and lean methodologies. He has worked with several organizations, from start-ups to large enterprises, in making their systems successful, be it in-house or mission critical, with clients in the USA, the UK, Germany, Ireland, and India. His current interests include container technologies and machine learning using Python. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering (IT).
Read more about Lalit Kale

Manish Kanwar
Manish Kanwar
author image
Manish Kanwar

Manish Kanwar completed his masters of science in computer applications from MD University, India, and is a cofounder of Innatus Curo Software LLC, with a presence in India. He has been working in the IT industry across domains for the last 17 years. He started exploring .NET right from the first release and has been glued to it ever since. His range of experience includes global wealth management (financial service industry, USA), life insurance (insurance industry, USA), and document management system (DMS), ECMS, India. Manish does his bit for the community by helping young professionals through the IndiaMentor platform.
Read more about Manish Kanwar

View More author details
Right arrow

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...
lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Building Microservices with .NET Core
Published in: Jun 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785887833

Authors (3)

author image
Gaurav Aroraa

Gaurav Aroraa has done M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, life time member of Computer Society of India (CSI), certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav serves as a mentor at IndiaMentor, open source developer, contributor to TechNet Wiki co-founder of Innatus Curo Software LLC. In 19+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his twitter handle @g_arora
Read more about Gaurav Aroraa

author image
Lalit Kale

Lalit Kale is a technical architect and consultant with more than 12 years of industry experience. Lalit has helped clients achieve tangible business outcomes through the implementation of best practices in software development. He is a practitioner of TDD and DDD, and a big believer in agile and lean methodologies. He has worked with several organizations, from start-ups to large enterprises, in making their systems successful, be it in-house or mission critical, with clients in the USA, the UK, Germany, Ireland, and India. His current interests include container technologies and machine learning using Python. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering (IT).
Read more about Lalit Kale

author image
Manish Kanwar

Manish Kanwar completed his masters of science in computer applications from MD University, India, and is a cofounder of Innatus Curo Software LLC, with a presence in India. He has been working in the IT industry across domains for the last 17 years. He started exploring .NET right from the first release and has been glued to it ever since. His range of experience includes global wealth management (financial service industry, USA), life insurance (insurance industry, USA), and document management system (DMS), ECMS, India. Manish does his bit for the community by helping young professionals through the IndiaMentor platform.
Read more about Manish Kanwar