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Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.

Microservice technologies are moving quickly. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. Youâ??ll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how building a microservice architecture affects a single domain.

  • Discover how microservices allow you to align your system design with your organizationâ??s goals
  • Learn options for integrating a service with the rest of your system
  • Take an incremental approach when splitting monolithic codebases
  • Deploy individual microservices through continuous integration
  • Examine the complexities of testing and monitoring distributed services
  • Manage security with user-to-service and service-to-service models
  • Understand the challenges of scaling microservice architectures


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What Are Microservices?

Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together. Let’s break that definition down a bit and consider the characteristics that make microservices different.

The benefits of microservices are many & varied. Many of these benefits can be laid at the door of any distributed system. Microservices, however, tend to achieve these benefits to a greater degree primarily due to how far they take the concepts behind distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.

Key benefits include

  • Technology Heterogeneity
  • Resilience
  • Scaling
  • Ease of Deployment
  • Organizational Alignment
  • Composability
  • Optimizing for Replaceability.
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About the Author

Sam Newman is interested in how different aspects of technology intersect, from development, to ops, to security, usability, and organizational structures. After 20 years in the industry, Sam now runs his own consulting and training company Sam Newman and Associates, focusing in the area of Microservices, Cloud and CI/CD.

Sam has worked with a variety of companies across multiple industries all over the globe, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Sam is the author of the bestselling Building Microservices from O'Reilly.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 17, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 278 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491950358
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491950357
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.32 x 0.62 x 9.13 inches
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Sam Newman is an author, speaker, and independent consultant interested in cloud, continuous delivery and microservices. Aside from other things he's spoken at more than a few conferences, and wrote some things including the books Building Microservices and Monolith To Microservices for O'Reilly.

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Customers find the book provides high-level concepts and practical knowledge on service architecture. They describe it as a great, understandable reference with an easy-to-read writing style and natural sentences. The book covers end-to-end design principles and intelligent design choices. It is a fast-paced read that allows for quick iterations. Readers appreciate the emphasis on autonomous services and reorganizing software teams around them.

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Customers find the book provides good information on microservices. They appreciate the high-level concepts and integration of best practices from well-regarded sources. The book is systematic in covering the topic, with useful references and a decent discussion around the recommendations. The book helps design educational apps for some customers.

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"...enough depth to really be a bible for seasoned architects -- good for an old architect like me to get back into more up to date technologies." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and understandable. They appreciate the concise explanations and sound advice. However, some readers feel some points were a bit too watered down.

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"...the style simple yet not simplistic, explanations short and to the point, advice sound, no space was lost on waffle and even the humour was good!..." Read more

28 customers mention "Writing style"28 positive0 negative

Customers find the writing style easy to read and well-written. They appreciate the natural sentences and simple yet not overly technical writing style. The book is logically structured and organized with references to other books. The final chapter provides a checklist for systems design.

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Customers find the book covers end-to-end design, deployment, and logging. It outlines architecture principles that will aid readers in developing next-generation applications. The book provides concrete examples and patterns with experienced backing. Readers appreciate the well-presented case for microservices and interesting patterns like circuit breakers and sidecars.

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Customers find the book's pacing fast and easy to read. They say it covers core concepts quickly, making it a good choice for short- or mid-term projects. The book flows smoothly and is suitable for microservices immediately.

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Customers find the service architecture in the book useful. It explains decomposing monolithic applications into manageable services. The book stresses the importance of autonomous services and evolutionary mindset. It also outlines a broad context of distributed systems architecture.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015
    In my experience, there are 2 types of programmers: Creative programmers who enjoy and are capable of solving problems, and those who are most skilled in implementing known solutions. This book is for the former.

    Sam Newman, the author of Building Microservices, doesn't pretend to be able to dictate the best answer for every situation. Instead, Mr. Newman teaches basic, but well thought out, concepts related to breaking a legacy or new application into small, manageable services. Throughout the book, he provides the cases when it makes sense, and generalities of how to implement this, but acknowledges that different implementations will work best for different companies, languages, situations, and programs. Where possible, he gives an overview of several methods that can be used to solve a problem.

    And to be honest, this is the sort of book I like best. Books that teach concrete methods often focus too heavily on implementation. The concepts are far more important, and a good programmer should be able to decide on the best implementation for each particular situation. This book does a good job of covering the full range of practical and theoretical considerations, and provides real-world examples where necessary.

    That being said, the book does have some shortfalls. I find the pacing to be inconsistent. Some chapters seem so short that they could be a section while others so long that I wonder why they weren't broken into separate topics. There are also references to supporting technologies that occasionally could use more detail.

    Overall, I think that this book will not offer a lot of new information for people who have lots of experience in this field. I also don't know that it would make a great textbook for a class due to the lack of specific implementation details. However, the book excels in giving practical knowledge, and for an individual or team tasked with splitting a monolithic application for the first time, I highly recommend it.
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2019
    I was looking for a specific book on microservice design, development, etc.. this book touches on it, but its really more a full end to end guide on development practices INCLUDING microservice design.

    Perhaps it sells better w/ this title -- the book is overall pretty good, I gave it 4-stars because it is misleading.

    The good parts of it -- covers end to end, design, deployment, logging/monitoring, deployment, etc. Overall good to introduce someone to system design. Not enough depth to really be a bible for seasoned architects -- good for an old architect like me to get back into more up to date technologies.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017
    Great read for new and experienced developers and solutions architects alike.

    Something I appreciate about this book is how it incorporates and integrates best practices from many well-regarded sources, including Domain-Driven Design (Evans), Continuous Delivery (Humble and Farley), Release It (Nygard), Enterprise Integration Patterns (Hohpe), and even Information Dashboard Design (Few), among several others. I've incorporated lessons learned from those authors in my own work, and Newman's work helped me to take a step back and see how it all fits into a mutually-reinforcing set of ideas and practices.

    Another strength this book has is that it treats the organizational forces driving systems design on a par with the technical forces, especially around Conway's Law. While I've been reasonably thoughtful about Conway's Law for some years, I walked away from the book with new insights. For example, in my organization we often talk about how we can make geography "invisible" so that developers around the world can closely collaborate on the same development projects. So we've tried things like asking people to focus more on communicating via wiki or Slack, having video teleconference meetings, trying to schedule meetings at times that are friendly to multiple time zones, and so forth, with limited success. We may need to rethink this. Newman's book offers some nice insights about the difference between loosely- and tightly-coupled organizations, and how different strategies work better depending on the organizational context. (For instance, if _everybody_ is "remote", then you're more likely to see successful wiki-based collaboration than you are when only one or two team members are.)

    Coupling and its dangers are a constant theme in the book. Besides the organization coupling I mentioned above, Newman treats technical coupling as well, and offers plenty of food for thought. At one point he offers a fair criticism against one of my favorite frameworks, Spring Data REST. (He refers to it as Spring Boot, but it's clear from the context that he's talking about a Spring Boot demo that includes Spring Data REST specifically.) Spring Data REST essentially takes your database schema and exports it as a REST API, and it's a convenient way to get a full-blown REST API in just an hour or two. But as Newman points out, this creates strong coupling between the API client and database-related implementation details. (To be fair to SDR, there are ways to customize the mapping, but point is essentially correct.) Also SDR is more focused around exposing data, where Newman argues that to decrease coupling we should focus more on exposing capabilities. I don't know exactly how to resolve this tension yet, but I walked away with a better appreciation of the forces in tension, which is exactly what I'd want.

    There was one way in which the book surprised me. Based on the title I was expecting a more in-depth how-to on building microservices, with specifics on tooling, code examples and so on. (E.g., "cloud native" concerns like using linkerd and Consul to set up a service mesh, or the pros-and-cons of using DNS vs service discovery for cross-region failover.) The book does a nice job of pulling in current and relevant tools and design patterns into the discussion where they make sense. But as Newman states at the outset the book is a more theoretical presentation of the microservices approach, concerned more with helping the reader understand the forces that brought us where we are today, and strategies to keep scope and coupling low. In the end I was glad to read the book as it is--I have a better lay of the land--but there will be some follow-up reading.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2017
    I can't say enough good things about this wonderful little book! This authoritative and confident treatise covers microservices, of course, but it lays down a broad context of distributed systems architecture within which it then prescribes how to build microservices. I use the word "prescribes" on purpose because Newman, who has had a long stint at the legendary boutique technology consulting firm ThoughtWorks, is not shy to express strong opinions. And these opinions Sam very wisely admits as his personal viewpoints and lets the reader know quite plainly what the alternative schools of thought are.

    In the process, Sam Newman presents loads of concepts (Domain Driven Design, Bounded Context), patterns (Loose Coupling, Strong Cohesion, Strangler, Bulkhead) and tools (Hibernate, SchemaSpy). I said "loads", so obviously this isn't a comprehensive list. I've provided just a few examples to whet your appetite. Plus I don't want to ruin your pleasure of reading this great book.

    Do not pass up this opportunity to learn from a master. Enjoy!
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  • Zeniel
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    Reviewed in Brazil on November 4, 2020
    Muito bom livro, trás todos os principais conceitos necessários pra quem precisa sair do monolito e começar a criar serviços.
  • Macaque Rouge
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deep and wide
    Reviewed in Canada on November 20, 2019
    Covers microservices in very good detail, and with breadth (all aspects of development, test, and deploy processes, architecture, etc.). Excellent code examples, and good references to tools for each of the stages of the software lifecycle.
  • Diego Leon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good!
    Reviewed in Mexico on August 12, 2019
    I have not finished it yet, but it is very interesting the way it tells how should we think about design and implementation of micro services!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Microservice
    Reviewed in Italy on September 17, 2019
    a book that addresses implementations of microservices from all possible angles. In the end we have an overall vision of how to deal with the development of our own microservices.