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Learning IBM Bluemix

You're reading from  Learning IBM Bluemix

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887741
Pages 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
Profile icon Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Learning IBM Bluemix
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Saying Hello to IBM Bluemix Building and Deploying Your First Application on IBM Bluemix Extending an Application and Configuring for Continuous Delivery Using DevOps Services Leveraging On-Premise Software for Applications on Bluemix Scaling Applications in Bluemix Monitoring and Management in Bluemix Compute Options on Bluemix Security Services on Bluemix Microservices-based Application Development on Bluemix Mobile Application Development on Bluemix

Understanding the microservices architecture pattern


The microservices architecture pattern is a method to develop applications that are composed of smaller applications, each of which is developed as a small service and has independent lifecycle management. These smaller services are loosely coupled together to form a larger application. When you consider whether an application should use microservices architecture, you should carefully evaluate whether it makes sense for the smaller functions to exist as independent microservices. Since each of the constituent micorservices in a microservices-based application has its own lifecycle management, you will have DevOps for each of the services managed independently.

One of the things you need to consider before you break your application down into microservices is the granularity required. Breaking it down into too many granular units would increase the operations overhead, while breaking it down into too few units would increase the application...

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