Organizing code
Organizing our microservices code is important for maintainability and collaboration with other developers. Depending on your needs and situation, consider applying the following best practices for organizing microservices code:
- Apply the singe task principle
- Separate responsibilities
- Standardize the communication protocols
- Containerize microservices
- Apply version control
- Document the code
- Conduct code reviews
Now, let’s look further into these best practices to organize our code.
Apply the singe task principle
Develop each microservice to execute a single task. This helps keep the codebase focused and makes it easier to understand, test, and maintain. Both for fellow developers and ourselves when we need to change a microservice after a while.
For example, our match address worker is only concerned with matching a new address to base addresses. And the email worker only sends a confirmation email.